Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management

  • Authors:
  • Seng Wai Loke;Arkady B. Zaslavsky

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Workflow technology is an important area of electronic commerce. The mobile agent paradigm offers a possible abstraction for flexible, adaptive, and dynamically extensible intra- and inter-organizational (even across the Internet) workflow systems. This paper describes two ideas we are exploring for mobile agent based distributed workflow enactment: an algebra of agent itineraries and its correspondence to workflow specifications, and a mobile agent control center for managing agents enacting workflows.