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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2006
Frank Leymann, Aidlingen, DE;
Simon Moser, Tuebingen, DE;
Friedemann Schwenkreis, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Frank Leymann, Aidlingen, DE;
Simon Moser, Tuebingen, DE;
Friedemann Schwenkreis, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a Workflow Management System with a workflow having a sequence of activities of an underlying business process, logical wait situations occur when a given activity depends upon completion of a prerequisite preparation activity. A method for decreasing the resulting run-time delays includes: identifying a primary activity and an associated preparation activity required to be done before executing the primary activity; navigating through the process template of the underlying workflow and calculating the probability at a node of the process template that the primary activity will be reached for a current process instance; and pre-executing the preparation activity in parallel to the activity sequence if the probability exceeds a predetermined threshold.