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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Tack Tong, Scarborough, CA;
Jay W. Benayon, Thornhill, CA;
Lev Mirlas, Thornhill, CA;
Anne Marie Lafond, Scarborough, CA;
Humie Leung, North York, CA;
Randolph P. Williams, Markham, CA;
Tack Tong, Scarborough, CA;
Jay W. Benayon, Thornhill, CA;
Lev Mirlas, Thornhill, CA;
Anne Marie Lafond, Scarborough, CA;
Humie Leung, North York, CA;
Randolph P. Williams, Markham, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for modeling processes such as business processes. Specifically, under the present invention, a process having multiple variations is modeled as a placeholder process, and is associated with an annotation that maps the multiple variations to different contexts of the placeholder process. Thereafter, process variations can be generated based on the different contexts of the placeholder process. Integrity checks can also be performed to determine if any of the process variations has an error so that the generation of any corresponding process will be prevented.