Task Scheduling for a TemporalWorkflow Management System

A workflow management system (WfMS) supports the coordinated execution of simple activities (tasks), assigning them to human or automatic executors (agents), to achieve the goal defined for a business process. The workflow scheduler performs task assignment policies: temporal aspects, such as availability time and skills of agents, deadlines for task completion, constraints over timestamps for task activation, periodic constraints cannot be neglected. By this paper we propose a temporal workflow scheduler which pervasively considers all the temporalities affecting task assignment policies

Authors

• Carlo Combi
• Giuseppe Pozzi

Keywords

• Workflow management software
• Information management
• Resource management
• Humans
• Availability
• Software systems
• Automatic control
• Database systems
• Scheduling algorithm
• Proposals
• Task Completion
• Temporal Aspects
• Time Of Agent
• Process Model
• Time Span
• Conceptual Model
• Working Time
• Start Time
• Selective Agents
• Organizational Model
• Presence Of Agents
• Temporal Model
• Cost Constraints
• Temporal Delay
• Task Completion Time
• Temporal Requirements
• Hourly Intervals