Title :
Project-oriented business process performance optimization
Author :
Zhou, Yonghua ; Chen, Yuliu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The quality of business process is on one hand determined by the structure of business process chain, and on the other hand the configuration of resources and organization. This paper mainly discusses how to appropriately assign resources according to the historical information of resources in the execution of activities so as to ensure the high performances of business processes. The quality of resource assignment is described by the average approximation degree to the ideal resource assignment based on the TOPSIS method and the uniformity degree of resource assignment based on the concept of information entropy, which can be regarded as the predictive quality of business process. The multi-objective evaluation-combined optimization models of business processes have been developed of intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. The mixed non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA) is utilized to solve the multi-objective optimization problem.
Keywords :
business communication; commerce; entropy; genetic algorithms; monitoring; resource allocation; TOPSIS method; average approximation degree; business process chain; information entropy; interenterprise business processes; intraenterprise business processes; monitoring methods; multiobjective evaluation-combined optimization models; nondominated sorting genetic algorithm; predictive quality; project-oriented business process performance optimization; resource assignment quality; resource configuration; statistic methods; uniformity degree; Automation; Business communication; Cost function; Design optimization; Genetic algorithms; Information entropy; Lead time reduction; Personnel; Sorting; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7952-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1245626