2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)
Compi?gne University of Technology, France
September 19-September 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2415-X
Rapid changes in the business environment call for more flexible and adaptive workflow systems. Researchers have proposed that Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) comprising multiple agents can provide these capabilities. We have developed a multi-agent based workflow system, JBees, which supports distributed process models and the adaptability of executing processes. Modern workflow systems should also have the flexibility to integrate available web services as they are updated. In this paper we discuss how our agent-based architecture can be used to bind and access web services in the context of executing a workflow process model. We use an example from the diamond processing industry to show how our agent architecture can be used to integrate web services with WfMSs.
Citation:
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, "Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)," wi, pp.471-474, 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), 2005