Cost Analysis for A Resource Sensitive Workflow Modelling Language

Abstract

Analysing and managing workflows across organisations can be a complex task. One of the main challenges is that planners often have a limited overview of shared resources and dependencies in collaborative workflows that extend beyond their local context. In this paper, we use an emergency handling workflow across multiple organisations as a case study to demonstrate how our recently developed formal language RPL and its accompanying tool RPLTool can be adopted to facilitate decision making on resource allocation in cross-organisational workflows. We formally model the workflow in RPL, and simulate the model with multiple concurrency levels and resource configurations regarding their availability and efficiency using RPLTool, allowing the decision-makers to observe how the changes in these scenarios impact the behaviour and the performance of the workflow.

Publication
Proceedings of 26th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages.
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