Providing an agent flavored integration for workflow management

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Wagner;José Quenum;Daniel Moldt;Christine Reese

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany;Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany;Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany;Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency V
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper discusses an application of software agents to improve workflow management systems, with a practical emphasis on Petri net-based systems. The properties of agent technology will be used to gain advantages within the workflow management systems on both a conceptual and practical level. In this paper we discuss the theoretical background of our work, the conceptual idea and approach, and one possible practical implementation. As a central practical means we use reference nets, a high-level Petri net formalism. These nets are used to model both agents and workflows, which results in a clean and natural integration of both technologies.