Title :
Using multi-agent systems to support workflow telecommunications applications
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´´Anal. et de Modelisation de Syst., Paris Dauphine Univ., France
Abstract :
More and more, the organizations´ requirements are competition, work process execution costs reduction and development of new products and services. To meet these requirements, workflow technology provides methodologies and software for the processing of activities. Our researches aim at providing a support for parallel workflows applications with new activities representation models and software architectures for performing the desired functionalities. We introduce an ontology for the representation of parallel workflows activities and a software agent architecture which meet the needs of these systems by encapsulating several agents in the same structure
Keywords :
groupware; multi-agent systems; software agents; software architecture; workflow management software; multi-agent systems; new activities representation models; parallel workflows applications; software agent architecture; software architectures; work process execution costs reduction; workflow; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Costs; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Software agents; Software architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control (ISIC), 1998. Held jointly with IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS), Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Gaithersburg, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4423-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISIC.1998.713720
