Patent ID: 6976257

Claim:
A computerized method of managing workload within a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) said method being executable by said WFMS on at least one computer system, said WFMS comprising a process-model, said process-model comprising one or more activities being nodes of an arbitrary graph, and directed edges of said graph defining a potential control-flow within said process-model, said method comprising the steps of: analyzing said process-model to determine if a priority-execution-specification is assigned to said one activity comprising at least one Boolean-predicate and a priority-level, and in an affirmative case, evaluating said Boolean-predicate using a variable-value not comprised in said process-model but said variable-value being comprised in a context of an instance of said process-model, and, if said Boolean-predicate evaluates to be TRUE, launching execution of said one activity in said activity's execution-environment, said WFMS setting its own execution-priority for the WFMS-internal processing relating to said one activity with respect to the WFMS's execution-environment to the execution-priority specified according to said priority-level.