Workload Balancing on Agents for Business Process Efficiency Based on Stochastic Model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3080, Issue , 2004, Pages 195-210

  Ha, Byung Hyun ^a   Bae, Joonsoo ^a   Kang, Suk Ho ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; BUSINESS PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; CAPACITY PLANNING; COMPUTER AGENTS; OVERALL PROCESS EFFICIENCIES; QUEUEING NETWORK MODEL; WORKLOAD BALANCING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 33646840243     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25970-1_13     Document Type: Article

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