A JOINT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DISPATCHING TASKS IN AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Pavlos Delias, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

2008

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 experimental setup were applied to test the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

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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 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 199-206. DOI: 10.5220/0001688601990206


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Pavlos Delias and Anastasios Doulamis and Nikolaos Matsatsinis},
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 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={199-206},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001688601990206},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A JOINT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DISPATCHING TASKS IN AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - Delias P.
AU - Doulamis A.
AU - Matsatsinis N.
PY - 2008
SP - 199
EP - 206
DO - 10.5220/0001688601990206