Title :
Collaborative multi-agents for workflow management
Author :
Wang, Huaiqing ; Xu, Dongming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
Abstract :
Workflow management helps organizations to organize their work on different activities in such a way that the predictable underlying processes are carried out effectively and efficiently in a distributed environment. We describe a business workflow management system with intelligent multi-agent support in a collaborative organization environment. With the help from multi-agent collaboration, our workflow management system can organize the organization´s work processes and provide resource control, data mediation, semantic mapping, and knowledge visualization processing. Such systems are able to manage the organizational workflow more effectively and more efficiently.
Keywords :
groupware; multi-agent systems; workflow management software; business workflow management system; collaborative multi-agents; collaborative organization environment; data mediation; intelligent multi-agent support; knowledge visualization; resource control; semantic mapping; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Control systems; Environmental management; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Management information systems; Mediation; Spine; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0981-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2001.926195