A two-stage probabilistic approach to manage personal worklist in workflow management systems

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

Volumn 5870 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 24-41

  Han, Rui ^a,b,c   Liu, Yingbo ^a,b,c   Wen, Lijie ^a,b,c   Wang, Jianmin ^a,b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Personal worklist management; Probability; Workflow management system; Workflow scheduling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY INSTANCES; BOTTOM LINES; BUSINESS PROCESS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; PERSONAL WORKLIST MANAGEMENT; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REAL-WORLD; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; TWO STAGE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW SCHEDULING;

INTERNET; PROBABILITY; SCHEDULING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77954308713     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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