Energy-Aware Optimisation of Business Processes

Due to changes in energy supply, and regulatory mechanism related to energy provisioning, organizations will need to tackle energy management issues. One way of doing so is to allocate resources to business processes taking into account energy costs. However, energy costs are time-dependent, and the resource optimization problem needs to be redesigned. In this paper we formalize the energy-aware resource allocation problem, including time-dependent variable costs; describe how an auction mechanism can be used to allocate resources in a way that optimizes costs; and present a case study.

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