TCU on Planning and Scheduling in Workflow Management

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TCU on Planning and Scheduling inWorkflow
Management

• Daniel Borrajo

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Results from PLANET-I

• Good progress in understanding relationship
  between BPM / WfM and AI Planning and Scheduling
• Fruitful collaboration among industry and
  academics
• First version of the roadmap (some papers)

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Planned activities during Phase II

• Inclusion of more software vendor members
• Celebration of one-two inter-disciplinary
  workshops
• Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
• User interaction
• Previous IST-ESPRIT projects and their results
• other TCUs web, intelligent manufacturing
• Interaction with the WfMC
• Publicity of Planet activities in workflow and
  e-business related conferences
• Maintaining a Web page on activities

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Planned activities during Phase II

• Study of the requirements in previous roadmap to
  set up new goals
• Encourage the implication of industry to generate
  proposals for IST projects through the
  description of open problems
• Foster and publicise case studies of effective
  workflow implementations
• Repository of workflow-oriented planning test
  domains
• Create (foster) a survey on current workflow
  tools and their implications to planning
• Generate a new version of the roadmap

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Requirements

• Short term characterised by
• additions to current generation WfMS, etc
• routine processes
• relatively unskilled workers
• Medium term
• extend support to medium skilled and knowledge
  workers
• more flexibility in processes
• empower the workers
• requires new generation of software support
• Long term
• more radical approaches