A population control protocol for mobile agent based workflow automation

Author

Flores-Badillo, Marina ; Padilla-Duarte, Adrián ; López-Mellado, Ernesto

Author_Institution

CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Zapopan, Mexico

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

4059

Lastpage

4064

Abstract

This paper deals with agent location and loss detection in a mobile agent based workflow automation scheme. A protocol for population control of agents evolving through Internet is proposed. It is supported by the handling of allowed timing in agent mission execution, allowing passive and active termination of agents, opportune localization of agents and orphan detection. The protocol is specified using stopwatch Petri nets allowing a clear definition of tasks requiring the handling of time.

Keywords

Internet; Petri nets; mobile agents; protocols; workflow management software; Internet; agent location; agent mission execution; loss detection; mobile agent; opportune localization; orphan detection; population control protocol; stopwatch Petri nets; workflow automation; Automatic control; Automation; Communication system control; Control systems; Cybernetics; Internet; Mobile agents; Petri nets; Protocols; Resource management; Interorganizational Workflow; Mobile agents; Population control; Stopwatch Petri nets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346677

Filename

5346677