论文信息 - Agent-enhanced Workflow

Agent-enhanced Workflow

In agent-enhanced workflow, a community of intelligent, distributed and autonomous software agents is used to improve the management of business processes under the control of a workflow management system. These improvements are achieved by allowing the software agents to negotiate with each other to establish contracts that govern the distribution of work across a number of processing centres. Furthermore, the agents collaborate to perform real-time exception handling, and to co-ordinate the redistribution of work items to meet changing circumstances.

B. R. Odgers | J. W. Shepherdson | Z. Cui | D. W. Judge

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