Optimizing Business Processes through Parallel Task Execution

Optimization of business processes is a persistent topic and a key goal in business process management (BPM). In this work, we investigate how a given resource allocation in business processes can drive optimizations in an underlying BPMN diagram. More specifically, the main contribution is a proposal to leverage a variant of representation of processes as Refined Process Structure Trees (RPSTs) with a view to enabling novel resource allocation-driven task re-ordering in a principled manner. The re-orderings targeted enforce the parallelism redesign heuristic that allows for multiple resources operating concurrently, which yields improvements in the process cycle time.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

• Publication date

  2022-10-19

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3508397.3564842
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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