Methods for Optimal Resource Allocation on Cooperative Task Scheduling in Cross-Organizational Business Process

Abstract

The optimal resource allocation (ORA) strategy for cooperative task scheduling is very important to form an efficient execution team to complete an instance in cross-organizational business processes (COBPs). In team formation, members of a team refer to the performers with specific skills and knowledge, and accomplish various tasks by cooperation and collaboration of corresponding resource roles. The team as a whole should focus on the overall comprehensive ability, which includes professional ability (PA) of members and cooperative ability (CA) between them, instead of individual combat. To address the resource allocation issue of COBPs for social networking cooperation, this paper proposes an ORA model for cooperative task scheduling based on the PA of performer who is qualified to complete task and the CA between performers whose roles require cooperation. In the proposed model, the tabu search (TS) algorithm is utilized to address the objective function solution, which outputs the optimal solutions mapping on resource allocation strategies. Finally, experiments show that the proposed optimization model for resource allocation supporting cooperative task scheduling is more in line with modern enterprise resource management models and it provides a new way for resource allocation during the cooperative task scheduling in COBPs.