A machine learning approach to semi-automating workflow staff assignment

  • Authors:
  • Liu Yingbo;Wang Jianmin;Sun Jiaguang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Staff assignment is an important aspect of workflow resource management. In many current workflow applications, staff assignment is still performed manually by resource assigners like process initiator or process monitor. In this paper, we present a semi-automated approach intended to ease the burden of staff assigner. Our approach applies a machine learning algorithm to workflow event log to learn various kinds of activities each actor undertakes. When a new process is initiated, the classifiers generated by the machine learning technique suggest a suitable actor to undertake the specified activities. With this approach, we have achieved an average prediction accuracy of 85.8% and 80.1% on two car manufacturing enterprises respectively. We report on the result of our experiment and discuss issues and improvement of our approach.