X-MAS: mobile agent platform for workflow systems with time constraints

Mobile agents have many useful properties in workflow systems. Nevertheless, not much work of mobile agent systems for agent-based workflow systems has been done. In this paper we describe some components to be considered in mobile agent platforms for workflow systems with time constraints.

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