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The key to enterprise process simulation and process enactment is to implement enterprise process cooperative schedule, i.e., how to control the execution order of the scheduled activities according to cooperative behavior rules under resource constraints. This paper proposes a dynamic PERT/CPM approach using a compound number, and discusses its applications to dynamic enterprise process scheduling for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). By using the compound number, activity’s duration, the earliest start time, and the latest start time of activities in a process model can be defined and calculated effectively to facilitate the enterprise process flexible scheduling and process forecast during process enactment. A framework to role-oriented process-driven enterprise cooperative work is proposed, some schedule strategies and the algorithm implementation are discussed, as well as the process-driven enterprise application integration.










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This majority of the work presented in this paper was done by the first author during his Ph.D. studies at BeiHang University, China. Appreciations should be given to Prof. Bosheng Zhou, and the team members at BeiHang University. This work was partially supported by the Zhejiang provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. Y106039) and the Key Research Foundation of Zhejiang Education Department of China (Grant No. 20060491).
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Tan, W., Jiang, C., Li, L. et al. Role-oriented process-driven enterprise cooperative work using the combined rule scheduling strategies. Inf Syst Front 10, 519–529 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9107-2
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