Automatic generation of process models

US8265979B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Mati Golani · Kiryat Motzkin, IL
• Shlomit Pinter · Haifa, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 2003
• Grant date: Sep 11, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0633
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for process modeling includes reading a record of executions of a process including at least first and second activities, and identifying in one of the executions in the record respective first and second lifespans of the first and second activities, defined by respective initiating and finish events, such that the initiating event of the second lifespan occurs during the first lifespan. A graphic model of the process is generated, so as to reflect a concurrency of the first and second activities, responsively to occurrence of the initiating event of the second lifespan during the first lifespan.