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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Eric W. Cope, Langnau am Albis, CH;
Lea A. Deleris, White Plains, NY (US);
Dominik Etzweiler, Hergiseil, CH;
Jana Koehler, Oberrieden, CH;
Jochen M. Kuester, Zurich, CH;
Bonnie K. Ray, Nyack, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and computer program product for extending a business process model. The method includes specifying first elements representing performance measures and objectives of a business process which may be compromised by risk events; specifying second elements representing contextual information describing circumstances which may be relevant to a failure mode of the process, said contextual information comprising a type and state of: resources to support the process, of jobs and artifacts that undergo the process; and, a type and state of environmental factors; specifying third elements representing errors which may occur during process execution; specifying fourth elements representing causal relationships among risk events related to the resources, activities, and said environmental factors that may influence process execution; and providing a set of metamodel extensions to a standard process modeling language that incorporate said specified first second third and fourth elements directly in the business process model.