What agents can do in workflow management systems |
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Authors: | Pavlos Delias Anastasios Doulamis Nikolaos Matsatsinis |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;(2) Management Division, School of Graduate Professional Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Malvern, PA 19355, USA;(3) Management Science and Information Systems, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA |
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Abstract: | Workflow management systems are an emerging category of information systems, currently under dynamic evolution. On the other
hand software agents are a distinct research area as well as an emerging paradigm for information systems design and development.
This paper tries to examine the integration of these two fields; reveal the stimulation and the advantages of such a mixing.
Popular standards of the workflow management field are used to derive a classification scheme, which is exploited to map existing
approaches. As a significant number of existing approaches is reviewed, a plethora of integration patterns are identified
and grouped according to the proposed classification scheme. The overall goal of the paper is to clear the vague picture of
the consolidation of workflow management systems and software agents and to provide an unifying framework for this intersected
area. |
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