NDLI: Towards Adaptive Workflow Enactment Using Multiagent Systems

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Buhler, Paul A. Vidal, José M.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Advances in Information Technology have created opportunities for business enterprises to redesign their information and process management systems. The redesigned systems will likely employ some form of workflow management system. Workflow management systems exactly enact business processes described in a process description language. Unfortunately, such strict adherence to the prescribed workflow makes it impossible for the system to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. We firmly believe that the historic trajectory of software development paradigms and IT advancements will establish multiagent systems as the workflow enactment mechanism of the future. In this paper we provide a critical survey of workflow, workflow description languages, web services and agent technologies. We propose that workflow description languages and their associated design tools can be used to specify a multiagent system. Specifically, we advance the idea that the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) can be used as a specification language for expressing the initial social order of the multiagent system, which can then intelligently adapt to changing environmental conditions.
Starting Page	61
Ending Page	87
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1385951X
Journal	Information Technology and Management
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737667
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Web services software composition workflow management systems multiagent systems Computer Communication Networks Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Business/Management Science Operation Research/Decision Theory Business Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business, Management and Accounting Information Systems Communication

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