Constraint-based planning and scheduling techniques for the optimized management of business processes

Article type: Other

Authors: Barba, Irene

Affiliations: Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, University of Seville, Seville, Spain. E-mail: irenebr@us.es

Abstract: Nowadays, a growing interest in aligning information systems in a process-oriented way exists as well as in the effective business process management (BPM). Since an instance of a business process (BP) is analogous to a plan which also includes allocation of resources, planning and scheduling (P&S) techniques can be very helpful for increasing the efficiency in BPM. In this work, innovative and rather relevant contributions related to constraint-based P&S approaches are proposed to optimize different stages of the BPM life cycle.

Keywords: Business process management, scheduling, planning, constraint programming

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-130554

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 251-253, 2013