Research on Workflow Management System Based on Mobile Agents

After analyzing the situation of most workflow management systems and the characteristic of mobile agent technology, a workflow system architecture based on mobile agents is presented, and a prototype system that is based on Aglet is implemented. This architecture adopts the safe mechanism of mobile agents, the data that is taken by mobile agents is guaranteed by RSA public key cryptographic algorithm. The result shows that building a workflow management system based on mobile agents is advanced and is viable, and it can improve the efficiency and security for the current workflow management system.