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Business Independent Model of Mobile Workforce Management

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In this work we introduce a general model for the description of mobile workforce environments. In the context of Business Process reengineering projects such models are necessary to predict the outcome of the optimization efforts. The model we propose is designed to be domain independent and can thus be utilized in BPR projects for any business domain incorporating mobile workforce systems.

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  1. Chair of Applied Telematics / e-Business, University of Leipzig, Klostergasse 3, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Volker Gruhn & Thomas Richter

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Bellavista

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 974, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Ruay-Shiung Chang

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, 260, Ilan, Taiwan , Republic of China

    Han-Chieh Chao

  4. National Dong Hwa University, 974, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Shin-Feng Lin

  5. Faculty of Science Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1098, Amsterdam, XG, The Netherlands

    Peter M. A. Sloot

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Gruhn, V., Richter, T. (2010). Business Independent Model of Mobile Workforce Management. In: Bellavista, P., Chang, RS., Chao, HC., Lin, SF., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13067-0_57

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