Probabilistic Calculation of Execution Intervals for Workflows

Probabilistic Calculation of Execution Intervals for Workflows

Abstract

The comprehensive treatment of time and time constraints is crucial in designing and managing business processes. Process managers need tools that help them predict execution durations, anticipate time problems, pro-actively avoid time constraint violations, and make decisions about the relative process priorities and timing constraints when significant or unexpected delays occur. Variations of activity durations and branching decisions at run-time make it necessary that we treat time management in workflows in a probabilistic way. Therefore we introduce the notion of probabilistic time management and discuss the application of this new concepts for workflow design as well as time aware, predictive and proactive workflow execution management.

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Authors
  • Eder, Johann
  • Pichler, Horst
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  • © 2005 IEEE (<a href='http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TIME.2005.29'>WWW</a>)
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Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings
Event Title
12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2005)
Divisions
Workflow Systems and Technology
Event Location
Burlington, Vermont, USA
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
2005-06-23
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Page Range
pp. 183-185
Date
June 2005
Official URL
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/Publications/2005/Eder...
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