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Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp 1351–1369 | Cite as

Integration of resource allocation and task assignment for optimizing the cost and maximum throughput of business processes

  • Yi XieEmail author
  • Shitao Chen
  • Qianyun Ni
  • Hanqing Wu
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Abstract

To improve efficiency and keep an edge in today’s increasingly competitive global business environments, this study aims to integrate resource allocation and task assignment for optimizing the cost and maximum throughput of business processes with many-to-many relationships between resources and activities using numerical analysis approaches and improved genetic algorithm. Firstly, a formal business process model for analyzing cost and maximum throughput is presented based on set theory. Secondly, the mathematic models of integrating resources allocation and task assignment for optimizing the cost and maximum throughput of business process are proposed respectively and solved by the improved genetic algorithm. Finally, the effectiveness and viability of the proposed methods are verified in numerical and practical cases respectively.

Keywords

Business process Cost Maximum throughput Resource allocation Task assignment 
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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China under Grant No. 11YJA630161; and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LY17G010001. This work is also sponsored by Contemporary Business and Trade Research Center of Zhejiang Gongshang University, Collaborative Innovation Center for Contemporary Commerce Circulation System Construction, Ministry of Education’s Key Research Institute in University & 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Zhejiang Province.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Management and E-BusinessZhejiang Gongshang UniversityHangzhouChina

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