US 2015/0310357 A1 · Handling Process Instance Migration In Business Process Management

Abstract

Process instance migration from a former process model to a new process model. A former process model and a new process model and their data models are analyzed to extract a process delta object model relating to changes in the new process model on which to define migration rules. One or more existing process instances are analyzed, and process instances whose current state has passed the changes in the new process model are retained. Candidate activities of the retained process instances, a set of conditions for the candidate activities, and a set of actions to be taken if a condition is met are generated. The generated set of conditions and set of actions may be presented to a user enabling the user to combine conditions and actions to produce a process instance migration program in the form of a set of rules.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method for process instance migration from a former process model to a new process model, comprising:

analyzing, by a computer, a former process model and a new process model and their data models and extracting a process delta object model relating to changes in the new process model on which to define migration rules;
analyzing, by the computer, one or more existing process instances and retaining process instances whose current state has passed the changes in the new process model;
generating, by the computer, candidate activities of the retained process instances;
generating, by the computer, a set of conditions for the candidate activities;
and
generating, by the computer, a set of actions to be taken if a condition is met.

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Handling Process Instance Migration In Business Process Management

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