Effective Role Resolution in Workflow Management
INFORMS Journal on Computing
A MCDM approach for sourcing strategy mix decision in IT projects
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
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As - result of the increasing diffusion of decision-making within and between organiza- tions, distributed scheduling methods have been proposed as alternatives to centralized, hierarchical, top-down production control schemes. While distributed scheduling methodol- ogies are appealing, one must first address the fundamental questions of when and where such methods are appropriate. This paper seeks to provide answers to these questions. Using generalized workflow framework, this paper models and compares the total expected costs of using decentralized and centralized organizational designs to coordinate the flows of infor- mation and work. This comparison allows one to define the characteristics of work environ- ments where distributed scheduling methods are more suitable than hierarchical, top-down production approaches. Finally, from this analysis, one can conclude that distributed sched- uling methods work well for systems where information technology is inexpensive relative to production cost, processing times are relatively long, and where the number of agents in the system is not too large.