MODELLING AND DISTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES IN A WORKFLOW SYSTEM

Saïda Boukhedouma, Zaia Alimazighi

2008

Abstract

This paper deals with the modelling and the dispatching of individual and collective work in a workflow system. It particularly, focuses on workflow processes of organizations where actors are organized by teams. In such a system, participants must interact with each other, coordinate, exchange informations, cooperate and synchronize their work. To do that, it is essential to define firstly, the way of dispatching individual and collective parts of work to all participants in the system. We describe some static and dynamic aspects of the system and we propose a simple algorithm for managing human resources at the runtime of the process. The algorithm aims to balance the workload between human actors in the system, it is based on a workload criteria computed according to the activities durations.

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in Harvard Style

Boukhedouma S. and Alimazighi Z. (2008). MODELLING AND DISTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES IN A WORKFLOW SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 290-297. DOI: 10.5220/0001701302900297


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Saïda Boukhedouma and Zaia Alimazighi},
title={MODELLING AND DISTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES IN A WORKFLOW SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={290-297},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001701302900297},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - MODELLING AND DISTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES IN A WORKFLOW SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Boukhedouma S.
AU - Alimazighi Z.
PY - 2008
SP - 290
EP - 297
DO - 10.5220/0001701302900297