Organizational Closeness Centralities of Workflow-Supported Performer-to-Activity Affiliation Networks

A workflow model specifies execution sequences of the associated activities and their affiliated relationships with roles, performers, invoked-applications, and relevant data. These affiliated relationships exhibit a series of valuable human-centered organizational knowledge and are utilized for exploring human resource's work patterns. This paper focuses not only on a specific type of affiliated relationships between performers and activities, in particular, which forms a performer-to-activity affiliation network, but also on a specific type of analysis techniques, which builds a closeness centrality measurement approach for quantifying the degrees of farnesses between performers as well as between activities. In other words, this paper investigates a series of formal approaches for building organizational closeness centrality measurement techniques on the specific type of affiliation networks. The investigation mainly deploys two types of algorithmic formalisms along with an operational example, which are measuring performer-centered organizational closeness centralities and activity-centered organizational closeness centralities, respectively. In order to validate the deployed algorithmic equations, the paper carries out a couple of operational experiments; One is on an ICN-based workflow package and the other is on a discovered workflow model mined from a dataset of workflow event logs. Summarily, this paper devises a series of algorithms and equations for measuring closeness centralities of activities, verify the devised algorithms and their related equations along with operational examples, and discuss the ultimate implications of these analysis techniques of organizational closeness centrality measurements as the performer-to-activity affiliation networking knowledge in workflow-supported organizations.