Fuzzy Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Workflow Nets

Joslaine Cristina Jeske de Freitas, Stéphane Julia, Leiliane Pereira de Rezende

2015

Abstract

The purpose of Workflow Management Systems is to execute Workflow processes. Workflow processes represent the sequence of activities that have to be executed within an organization to treat specific cases and to reach a well-defined goal. Therefore, it is to manage in the best possible way time and resources. The proposal of this work is to express in a more realistic way the resource allocation mechanisms when human behavior is considered in Workflow activities. In order to accomplish this, fuzzy sets delimited by possibility distributions will be associated with the Petri net models that represent human type resource allocation mechanisms. Additionally, the duration of activities that appear on the routes (control structure) of the Workflow process, will be represented by fuzzy time intervals produced through a kind of constraint propagation mechanism. New firing rules based on a joint possibility distribution will then be defined.

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Cristina Jeske de Freitas J., Julia S. and Pereira de Rezende L. (2015). Fuzzy Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Workflow Nets . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-096-3, pages 471-478. DOI: 10.5220/0005365304710478


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Joslaine Cristina Jeske de Freitas and Stéphane Julia and Leiliane Pereira de Rezende},
title={Fuzzy Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Workflow Nets},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={471-478},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005365304710478},
isbn={978-989-758-096-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Fuzzy Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Workflow Nets
SN - 978-989-758-096-3
AU - Cristina Jeske de Freitas J.
AU - Julia S.
AU - Pereira de Rezende L.
PY - 2015
SP - 471
EP - 478
DO - 10.5220/0005365304710478