Optimized execution of business processes on crowdsourcing platforms

CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 443-451

  Khazankin, Roman ^a   Satzger, Benjamin ^a   Dustdar, Schahram ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive Process Execution; Crowdsourcing; Human centric BPM; Incentive Management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCESS; BEHAVIOR MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION; CROWDSOURCING; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; HISTORICAL DATA; HUMAN-CENTRIC; MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84874446883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2012.250434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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