Development of process execution rules for workload balancing on agents

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-84

  Ha, Byung Hyun ^a   Bae, Joonsoo ^b   Park, Yong Tae ^a,c   Kang, Suk Ho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

BPMS; Individual worklists; Load balancing; Mathematical programming; Queueing theory

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; REENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BPMS); COMPUTER AGENTS; WORKLOADS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27544495993     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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