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Efficient business processes are a critical success factor for organizations in a competitive market environment. One of the key potentials to increase efficiency of business processes is the optimization of resource utilization. The contribution of this paper is a novel approach for combining activities across running process instances to optimize resource utilization; i.e., resources are shared across different process instances. The main benefits of the suggested approach are the identification, disclosure, and application of optimization potentials.
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This publication has been written within the project Vertical Model Integration (VMI) 4.0. The VMI 4.0 project is supported within the program “Regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit OÖ 2007-2013” by the European Fund for Regional Development as well as the State of Upper Austria. This work was also supported in part by the AdaBPM project, which is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under the project number 842437.
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Natschläger, C., Bögl, A., Geist, V. (2015). Optimizing Resource Utilization by Combining Running Business Process Instances. In: Toumani, F., et al. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2014 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8954. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22885-3_11
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