Mining Workflow Event Log to Find Parallel Task Dispatching Rules

Liu Yingbo, Wang Jianmin, Sun Jiaguang

2007

Abstract

In many workflow applications, actors are free to pick up work items in their work list. It is not unusual for an actor to start a work item before completing previously accepted one. Frequent occurrence of this behavior implies potential patterns of work parallelism, which is serviceable to a workflow scheduler to better dispatch ongoing tasks. In this paper, we apply association rule mining techniques to workflow event log to analyze various kinds of activity parallel execution patterns. When an actor accepts a new work item, the parallel execution rules mined from event log can help a workflow scheduler to find those work items that might be suitable to be undertaken by the same actor simultaneously. In the experiment on three vehicle manufacturing enterprises, we have found 32 strong rules of 40 different workflow activities. We describe our approach and report on the result of our experiment.

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Yingbo L., Jianmin W. and Jiaguang S. (2007). Mining Workflow Event Log to Find Parallel Task Dispatching Rules . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-98-6, pages 45-54. DOI: 10.5220/0002408300450054


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@conference{csac07,
author={Liu Yingbo and Wang Jianmin and Sun Jiaguang},
title={Mining Workflow Event Log to Find Parallel Task Dispatching Rules},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={45-54},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002408300450054},
isbn={978-972-8865-98-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Mining Workflow Event Log to Find Parallel Task Dispatching Rules
SN - 978-972-8865-98-6
AU - Yingbo L.
AU - Jianmin W.
AU - Jiaguang S.
PY - 2007
SP - 45
EP - 54
DO - 10.5220/0002408300450054