Abstract: The invention is directed to an automated workflow management system. The automated workflow management system may manage content records in a workflow process. For example, the automated workflow management system may prepare data records for storage in a database. Further, the automated workflow management system may prepare content for a catalog. The automated workflow management system may prompt users to act on documents that violate a business logic rule. The automated workflow management system may observe and record user actions. Further, the automated workflow management system may persist those recorded user actions as persisted activities. In addition, the automated workflow management system may replay or repeat the persisted activities. These persisted activities may be associated with specific content records. Further, the user actions may take the form of decisions, editing, classifying, and others. These decisions may be to discard the content record or bypass the business rule.

Abstract: A system and method for examining a string of symbols and identifying portions of the string which match a predetermined pattern using adaptively weighted, partitioned context edit distances. A pattern is partitioned into context and value components, and candidate matches for each of the components is identified by calculating an edit distance between that component and each potentially matching set (sub-string) of symbols within the string. One or more candidate matches having the lowest edit distances are selected as matches for the pattern. The weighting of each of the component matches may be adapted to optimize the pattern matching and, in one embodiment, the context components may be heavily weighted to obtain matches of a value for which the corresponding pattern is not well defined. In one embodiment, an edit distance matrix is evaluated for each of a prefix component, a value component and a suffix component of a pattern.