A PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PERSPECTIVE FOR DESIGNING BUSINESS PROCESSES FROM DECLARATIVE SPECIFICATIONS

Irene Barba, Carmelo Del Valle

2011

Abstract

Usually, business process models are manually achieved by business analysts and most of current modelling languages are of imperative nature. As a consequence, non-optimized or faulty models can be obtained. This work proposes a planning based approach to give business analysts assistance for the process models generation. This approach entails the selection and the order of the activities to be executed (planning), and the resources allocation involving temporal reasoning (scheduling), both considering function optimization. The process information is specified in a declarative way, that is translated into the standard planning language PDDL. A friendly graphic language is used (ConDec-R, an extension of ConDec).

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Barba I. and Del Valle C. (2011). A PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PERSPECTIVE FOR DESIGNING BUSINESS PROCESSES FROM DECLARATIVE SPECIFICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 562-569. DOI: 10.5220/0003149005620569


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Irene Barba and Carmelo Del Valle},
title={A PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PERSPECTIVE FOR DESIGNING BUSINESS PROCESSES FROM DECLARATIVE SPECIFICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={562-569},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003149005620569},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PERSPECTIVE FOR DESIGNING BUSINESS PROCESSES FROM DECLARATIVE SPECIFICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Barba I.
AU - Del Valle C.
PY - 2011
SP - 562
EP - 569
DO - 10.5220/0003149005620569