Opus: A Workflow Intention Framework for Complex Workflow Generation

TL;DR

This paper presents a new framework called Workflow Intention for understanding and generating complex business workflows by interpreting signals from business artefacts using an attention-based multimodal system.

Contribution

It introduces the concepts of Workflow Signal and Workflow Intention, along with a mathematical framework and a scalable attention-based system for workflow generation.

Findings

Proposed a novel Workflow Intention framework for complex workflows.

Developed a multimodal attention-based system for interpreting business artefacts.

Formalized Workflow Signal and Intention as mathematical objects.

Abstract

This paper introduces Workflow Intention, a novel framework for identifying and encoding process objectives within complex business environments. Workflow Intention is the alignment of Input, Process and Output elements defining a Workflow's transformation objective interpreted from Workflow Signal inside Business Artefacts. It specifies how Input is processed to achieve desired Output, incorporating quality standards, business rules, compliance requirements and constraints. We adopt an end-to-end Business Artefact Encoder and Workflow Signal interpretation methodology involving four steps: Modality-Specific Encoding, Intra-Modality Attention, Inter-Modality Fusion Attention then Intention Decoding. We provide training procedures and critical loss function definitions. In this paper we introduce the concepts of Workflow Signal and Workflow Intention, where Workflow Signal decomposed into Input, Process and Output elements is interpreted from Business Artefacts, and Workflow Intention is a complete triple of these elements. We introduce a mathematical framework for representing Workflow Signal as a vector and Workflow Intention as a tensor, formalizing properties of these objects. Finally, we propose a modular, scalable, trainable, attention-based multimodal generative system to resolve Workflow Intention from Business Artefacts.