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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2010
Majid Irani, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Owen, Hampshire, GB;
Majid Irani, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Owen, Hampshire, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Automating changes to a composite workflow using user-defined workflow policies can begin with the detection of a state change by a workflow policy handler for a record of an instance of a composite workflow running within a composite workflow system. User-defined workflow policies can be identified for the composite workflow in which the change was detected. A user-defined workflow policy can define policy actions to be performed if policy conditions are satisfied. For each identified user-defined workflow policy, the applicability to the instance of the composite workflow can be determined. If an identified user-defined workflow policy is determined to be applicable, the policy actions can be automatically performed on the instance of the composite workflow.