Patent ID: 8649042

Claim:
A method for automated generation of a fully parameterized workflow plan, comprising: reading a capability item, wherein said capability item comprises at least one device capability or constraint of interest; augmenting said capability item with meta-level information, wherein said meta-level information is relevant to synthesizing a plan template, wherein said meta-level information comprises a site-specific operator; generating said plan template utilizing said capability item and properties of a goal-state, a priori operators and data indicative of facts defined over a set of predicates in association with an automated planner; and transmitting said plan template and said formal product description to a final plan generator, wherein said final plan generator parameterizes all processing steps specified by said plan template and produces said fully parameterized workflow plan comprising detailed parameterization of a plurality of process nodes and descriptive information, said descriptive information comprising at least one of: customer contacts, required completion, delivery dates, and document content files.