| 摘要 |
<p num="1"><br/><br/><br/>Many business processes involve manually controlling and monitoring <br/>informational artifacts, such as documents or insurance claims, through a <br/>workflow process. The present invention provides a dynamic and flexible method <br/>for controlling workflow processes by arranging complex tasks into predefined <br/>sequences having decision points (118, 130) that control the process to <br/>completion. The method comprises defining procedural components of a process <br/>flow model, defining control links (116, 120, 128, 132, 136) for connecting <br/>the procedural components, defining data components of a process data model, <br/>defining data links (112) for connecting the procedural components and the <br/>data components, and invoking the procedural components for producing a <br/>workflow process result. The procedural components comprise nodes in the <br/>workflow process, which may be automated, interactive or manual procedures. <br/>The nodes are connected and executed in a defined sequence determined by <br/>control links. The data components comprise data sets connected to procedural <br/>components by the data links.<br/>
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