Different perspectives on modeling workflows in an agent based workflow management system

  • Authors:
  • Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu;Maryam Purvis;Martin Purvis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Most workflows are modeled from the point of view that the entire workflow can be perceived, modeled and executed as a single entity. While this is true in scenarios involving manufacturing industries it is not the same in e-business scenarios, which would involve various participants such as buyers, sellers, etc. In these scenarios it is difficult to explicitly model and use a single process model (with hierarchical sub processes). In these cases, a model of the interactions can be specified using Interaction Protocols (IPs). In this paper we discuss how our agent based workflow system supports process specific workflow models and the workflows based on interaction protocol models. The process modeler has the option of choosing one of these approaches of modeling or a combination of these approaches to model a workflow.