First Joint IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE '07)
Resource-Constrained Workflow Modeling
Shanghai, China
June 06-June 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2856-2
Business processes are often constrained by resource availability. This is particularly true in an emergency response system where large quantity of resources, including emergency responders, ambulances, fire trucks, medications, food, clothing, etc., are required. In our previous work, we introduced WIFA model to meet the needs of incident command systems workflow modeling and analysis. In this paper, we extend WIFA to take resources into account when modeling and enacting workflows. A formal resourceconstrained workflow model is defined and the state transitions rules are established to support workflow analysis. An example is given to illustrate the use of the model.
Citation:
Jiacun Wang, William Tepfenhart, Daniela Rosca, Anni Tsai, "Resource-Constrained Workflow Modeling," tase, pp.171-177, First Joint IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE '07), 2007