BRANCH: an ASP systems benchmark for resource allocation in business processes

The goal of BRANCH is to benchmark Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems to test their performance when dealing with the task of automatically allocating resources to business process activities. Like many other scheduling problems, the allocation of resources and starting times to process activities is a challenging optimization problem, yet it is a crucial step for an optimal execution of the processes. BRANCH has been designed as a configurable benchmark equipped with instance generators that produce problem instances of different size and hardness with respect to adjustable parameters. This application-oriented benchmark supports the BPM community to find the ASP systems and implementations that perform better in solving the resource allocation problem.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RTI2018-100763-J-I0

Process- and Resource-Aware Information Systems

Business processes involve several perspectives that have an effect in all the phases of the business process management lifecycle. The organisational perspective addresses the way in which human resources take part in process activities. Human resources are of utmost importance as they are responsible for the correct execution of processes. However, the organisational perspective has received less attention than others and the existing support is limited. With the aim of easing the development of advances in human resource management in business processes, in this paper we present a novel framework that collects several aspects to be considered along with the existing support.Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) 845638 (SHAPE