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Personal schedules allow workflow participants to improve their performance of activity executions. Participants are no longer surprised by the entries in their work-lists but receive advance information about (potential) future activity assignments, allowing better possibilities for work-planning. The personal schedule system is based on a probabilistic workflow time management system using duration histograms. A personal schedule collects future activity assignments together with their probability and their timing requirements and allows to analyze the workload of a participant and to support the scheduling of activities with the goal of reduced turn-around times and reduced number of violations of temporal constraints.
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Eder, J., Pichler, H., Gruber, W., Ninaus, M. (2003). Personal Schedules for Workflow Systems. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44895-0_15
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