Manufacturing scheduling aims to optimize one or more performance measures by allocating a set of resources jobs tasks over given period time. It is an area that considers very important decision-making process for manufacturing and production systems. In this paper, the unrelated parallel machine problem with machine-dependent job-sequence-dependent setup times addressed. This involves on mach...

I4 3 6 University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg Visitors: Universitätsstr. 12, 86159 Augsburg Phone: +49 821 598-4801 (Fax: -4899) University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth Visitors: F.-v.-Schiller-Str. 2a, 95444 Bayreuth Phone: +49 921 55-4710 (Fax: -844710) www.fim-rc.de Discussion Paper Process Improvement through Economically Driven Routing of Instances by Manuel Bolsinger, Anna Elsäßer, Car...

A thorough understanding of the way in which existing business processes currently practice is essential from the perspectives of both process reengineering and workflow management. In this paper, we present a framework and algorithms that derive the underlying process model from past executions. The process model employs a directed graph for representing the control dependencies among activiti...

Business process management has grown into a mature discipline supported by a large number of commercial and open source products, collectively referred to as Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). Because most of the business processes are long-running, any data relating to a running instance of a business process need to persist in a data storage. In an organisation several BPMS products...

We have seen a variety of frameworks and methodologies aimed at dealing with non-conformance in processes presented in the literature. These methodologies seek to find discrepancies between process reference models and data returned from instances of process enactments. These range from methodologies aimed at preventing deviations and inconsistencies involved in workflow and process support sys...

Over the past decade a variety of process languages have been deened, used and evaluated. It is now possible to consider second generation languages based on this experience 1, 3, 4]. Rather than develop a second generation wish list this position paper explores two issues: instances and connectors. Instances relate to the relationship between a process model as a description and the, possibly ...

Over the past decade a variety of process languages have been de ned, used and evaluated. It is now possible to consider second generation languages based on this experience [1, 3, 4]. Rather than develop a second generation wish list this position paper explores two issues: instances and connectors. Instances relate to the relationship between a process model as a description and the, possibly...

Most of today's approaches to business process modeling interpret processes as algorithms. As a result, modelers often try to cover every possible outcome of a process. This algorithmic view increases the amount of information that has to be captured and reviewed. As an alternative, we propose to focus on exemplary process instances instead. We call this concept Exemplary Modeling and have buil...