Supervising the processing status of activities within workflow management systems

摘要

In a method for supervising the processing status of activities of a business process managed by a Workflow-Management-Systems or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS), the activity is checked to determine whether the processing status of the activity instance has an in doubt status. If an in doubt status is found, a check is made to determine whether a dedicated check-activity is associated with the activity, a check-activity being capable of dynamically analyzing the processing status of its associated activity. If a dedicated check-activity is found, an instance is launched to determine the processing status of the activity instance.