A facility for defining a process for approving requests for approval of a selected type is described. The facility displays a palette (510) containing visual representations (511 - 518) of each of a plurality of approval process elements. The facility then receives a number of user input instances, each user input instance dragging one of the visual representations (511 - 518) into a selected location in a workspace (520) so as to form an arrangement of approval process elements. The facility then stores a process definition corresponding to the formed arrangement of approval process elements.

Defining an approval process for requests for approval

A facility for presenting approval requests is described. The facility simultaneously displays information describing both a first approval request and a second approval request, where the first approval request is generated using a first application program, and the second approval request is generated using a second application program that is distinct from the first application program.

User interface for processing requests for approval

Many business processes involve manually controlling and monitoring informational artifacts, such as documents or insurance claims, through a workflow process. The present invention provides a dynamic and flexible method for controlling workflow processes by arranging complex tasks into predefined sequences having decision points that control the process to completion. The method comprises defining procedural components of a process flow model, defining control links for connecting the procedural components, defining data components of a process data model, defining data links for connecting the procedural components and the data components, and invoking the procedural components for producing a workflow process result. The procedural components comprise nodes in the workflow process, which may be automated, interactive or manual procedures. The nodes are connected and executed in a defined sequence determined by control links. The data components comprise data sets connected to procedural components by the data links.

System and method for workflow process management

A system and method are disclosed for dynamically reserving resources within a cluster environment. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for resources in the cluster environment, monitoring events after receiving the request for resources and based on the monitored events, dynamically modifying at least one of the request for resources and the cluster environment.

System and method for providing advanced reservations in a compute environment

An electronic form routing system that includes a front-end server accessible to the users over a network via an encrypted link and a secure back-end database for storing the electronic forms and the data input by users into the form.

Electronic form routing and data capture system and method

A workflow system for a paperless office, an information processing apparatus, a method for simply defining a complicated workflow, for example, a workflow such as a circulation among a plurality of departments where the circulation route varies in each department, and a storage medium. A workflow system comprises: a manipulating computer terminal for executing a workflow between persons in charge, a computer terminal for designing the workflow by designating project variables for multiplexing a plurality of paths for nodes, each indicating a unit of operation to be handled; and a workflow server for managing the designed workflow and accessing the manipulating computer terminals in accordance with activities that indicate operations assigned to the nodes.

Workflow in a paperless office

Time periodic problem for the compressible Navier-Stokes equation on the whole space is studied. The existence of a time periodic solution is proved for sufficiently small time periodic external force with some symmetry when the space dimension is greater than or equal to 3. The proof is based on the spectral properties of the time-T map associated with the linearized problem around the motionless state with constant density in some weighted Sobolev space. The stability of the time periodic solution is also proved and the decay estimate of the perturbation is established.

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Existence and stability of time periodic solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation for time periodic external force with symmetry

The compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system is considered on ${\mathbb{R}^3}$ when the external force is periodic in the time variable. The existence of a time periodic solution is proved for a sufficiently small external force by using the time-T-map related to the linearized problem around the motionless state with constant density and absolute temperature. The spectral properties of the time-T-map is investigated by a potential theoretic method and an energy method in some weighted spaces. The stability of the time periodic solution is proved for sufficiently small initial perturbations. It is also shown that the ${L^\infty}$ norm of the perturbation decays as time goes to infinity.

Existence and Stability of Time Periodic Solution to the Compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg System on $${\mathbb{R}^3}$$

Delay in a workflow is avoided by introducing a skip operation upon execution of the workflow. Additionally, a person in charge of the workflow eventually participates in the workflow process even if he/she has been skipped. The workflow design defines skippable activities, in advance, as well as re-execution points in order to reassign the skipped activities.

Kazuyuki Tsuda

Papers

Workflow in a paperless office

Existence and stability of time periodic solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation for time periodic external force with symmetry

Existence and stability of time periodic solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation for time periodic external force with symmetry

Existence and Stability of Time Periodic Solution to the Compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg System on $${\mathbb{R}^3}$$

Workflow system and method with skip function