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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2012
Liana L. Fong, Irvington, NY (US);
David C. Frank, Ossining, NY (US);
Linh H. Lam, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Zhi Le Zou, Beijing, CN;
Liana L. Fong, Irvington, NY (US);
David C. Frank, Ossining, NY (US);
Linh H. Lam, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Zhi Le Zou, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and information processing system manage workflow instance migration. A received migration plan indicates a set of workflow migration points associated with an initial workflow process model. The set of workflow migration points is associated with a set of workflow activities of the initial workflow process model. At least one workflow instance is selected from a set of workflow instances. A current migrateability state associated with the selected workflow instance is determined based at least on the set of workflow migration points. Migration of the workflow instance to a new workflow process model is granted in response to determining that the current migrateability state is set to migrateable. Migration of the workflow instance to the new workflow process model is prevented for at least a given amount of time in response to determining that the current migrateability state fails to be set to migrateable.