An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes

Zakaria Maamar; Fadwa Yahya; Lassaad Ben Ammar

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1

An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes

Zakaria Maamar, Fadwa Yahya, Lassaad Ben Ammar

Computer Sciences

Zayed University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents an approach that provisions resources to a set of business processes’ tasks for consumption at run-time. However, it happens that these tasks are disrupted by other urgent tasks that require immediate resource provisioning. Besides resources’ consumption properties like limited and shareable, and tasks’ transactional properties like pivot and retriable, disruptions make tasks suspend their ongoing execution, so they release their resources to the disrupting tasks that now need to be executed. These resources were initially assigned to what is now referred to as disrupted tasks. To consider the intrinsic characteristics of the consumption properties, transactional properties, and disruptions when resources are provisioned to disrupted/disrupting tasks, the approach adopts Allen’s interval algebra to ensure a free-of-conflict consumption of resources. A system demonstrating the technical doability of the approach based on a case study about loan applications and a real dataset is presented in the paper, as well.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Hermann Kaindl, Mike Mannion, Leszek A. Maciaszek
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	3-19
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783031365966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1
State	Published - 2023
Event	17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 25 Apr 2022 → 26 Apr 2022

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1829 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	25/04/22 → 26/04/22

Keywords

Allen’s interval algebra
Business process
Disruption
Resource

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10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1

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Maamar, Z., Yahya, F., & Ben Ammar, L. (2023). An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes. In H. Kaindl, M. Mannion, & L. A. Maciaszek (Eds.), Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 3-19). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1829 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1

Maamar, Zakaria ; Yahya, Fadwa ; Ben Ammar, Lassaad. / An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes. Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Hermann Kaindl ; Mike Mannion ; Leszek A. Maciaszek. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 3-19 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Maamar, Z, Yahya, F & Ben Ammar, L 2023, An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes. in H Kaindl, M Mannion & LA Maciaszek (eds), Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1829 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-19, 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2022, Virtual, Online, 25/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1

An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes. / Maamar, Zakaria; Yahya, Fadwa ; Ben Ammar, Lassaad.
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Hermann Kaindl; Mike Mannion; Leszek A. Maciaszek. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 3-19 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1829 CCIS).

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Maamar Z, Yahya F , Ben Ammar L. An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes. In Kaindl H, Mannion M, Maciaszek LA, editors, Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 3-19. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_1