incorporating structural improvement into resource allocation for business process execution planning

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	incorporating structural improvement into resource allocation for business process execution planning
	Xu Jiajie; Liu Chengfei; Zhao Xiaohui; Ding Zhiming
	2012
发表期刊	Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience
ISSN	1532-0626
卷号	25 期号:3 页码:-
摘要	Resource management has been recognised as an important topic for business process execution for a long time. Most existing works on resource allocation for business processes simply assume that the structure of a business process is always fixed, and therefore do not discuss the possibility of optimising resource allocation by adapting process structures to actual resource situations. To fill this gap, we propose a resource optimisation approach of improving process structures according to resource situations and thereby pursuing the best resource utilisation efficiency. This approach comprises a role-based business process model for resource allocation and the strategies for optimising resource allocation in conjunction with a business process improvement. A set of heuristic rules are established to guide the resource allocation for the purposes of preventing resource conflicts, shortening the total execution time, minimising the total cost, etc. Particular algorithms are also developed to implement the resource allocation according to these rules. In addition, an experimental study is conducted to discuss the incorporation of business process improvement into resource allocation for optimal process execution. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; Resource management has been recognised as an important topic for business process execution for a long time. Most existing works on resource allocation for business processes simply assume that the structure of a business process is always fixed, and therefore do not discuss the possibility of optimising resource allocation by adapting process structures to actual resource situations. To fill this gap, we propose a resource optimisation approach of improving process structures according to resource situations and thereby pursuing the best resource utilisation efficiency. This approach comprises a role-based business process model for resource allocation and the strategies for optimising resource allocation in conjunction with a business process improvement. A set of heuristic rules are established to guide the resource allocation for the purposes of preventing resource conflicts, shortening the total execution time, minimising the total cost, etc. Particular algorithms are also developed to implement the resource allocation according to these rules. In addition, an experimental study is conducted to discuss the incorporation of business process improvement into resource allocation for optimal process execution. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
收录类别	EI
关键词	Heuristic Algorithms Optimization
部门归属	(1) Faculty of ICT Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne Australia; (2) NFS Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China; (3) Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra Canberra Australia
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000314934800007
引用统计	被引频次：13[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
内容类型	期刊论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/14911
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu Jiajie,Liu Chengfei,Zhao Xiaohui,et al. incorporating structural improvement into resource allocation for business process execution planning[J]. Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience,2012,25(3):-.
APA	Xu Jiajie,Liu Chengfei,Zhao Xiaohui,&Ding Zhiming.(2012).incorporating structural improvement into resource allocation for business process execution planning.Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience,25(3),-.
MLA	Xu Jiajie,et al."incorporating structural improvement into resource allocation for business process execution planning".Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience 25.3(2012):-.