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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2005
Jana Koehler, Oberrieden, CH;
Jana Koehler, Oberrieden, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for generating a BPEL4WS executable workflow code from an unstructured cyclic business process model. The method inputs a graphical representation of the business process model using a graphical modeling language. The graphical representation comprises activities, decisions and an unstructured cycle including more than one entry or more than one exit to an activity or a decision. The method assigns continuation semantics to the graphical representation which comprises partitioning the activities and the decisions of the graphical representation into the past, present, and future. The method assigns a continuation variable to a start and an end of the graphical representation and assigns a continuation variable to each activity and each decision that has more than one incoming link or more than one outgoing link.