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Authors: Pavlos Delias ; Anastasios Doulamis and Nikolaos Matsatsinis

Affiliation: Technical University of Crete, Greece

Keyword(s): Task allocation, agent-based workflow, workflow management systems, joint optimization.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems ; Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce ; Software Agents and Internet Computing

Abstract: Workflow problems generally require the coordination of many workers; machines and computers. Agents provide a natural mechanism for modelling a system where multiple actors operate, but they do not explicitly support coordination schemes. Efficient task allocation to these actors is a fundamental coordination prerequisite. A competent allocation policy should address both system performance issues and users’ quality demands. Since these factors are often contradictory, an efficient solution is hard to be identified. In this study, we suggest a task delegation strategy that jointly optimizes system performance (as expressed by workload balancing) and quality demands (as expressed by minimum task overlapping). A consistent modelling approach allows us to transform data of both these factors into a matrix format. The next step is to exploit the Ky-fan theorem and the notion of generalized eigenvalues to optimally solve the task allocation problem. A simple scheduling policy and an expe rimental setup were applied to test the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. (More)

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Delias, P.; Doulamis, A. and Matsatsinis, N. (2008). A JOINT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DISPATCHING TASKS IN AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1; ISSN 2184-4992, SciTePress, pages 199-206. DOI: 10.5220/0001688601990206

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title={A JOINT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DISPATCHING TASKS IN AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS},
year={2008},
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doi={10.5220/0001688601990206},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS
TI - A JOINT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DISPATCHING TASKS IN AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
IS - 2184-4992
AU - Delias, P.
AU - Doulamis, A.
AU - Matsatsinis, N.
PY - 2008
SP - 199
EP - 206
DO - 10.5220/0001688601990206
PB - SciTePress