Bibliography

Improving a Workflow Management System with an Agent Flavour

Daniel Moldt, José Quenum, Christine Reese, and Thomas Wagner.
Improving a workflow management system with an agent flavour.
In Duvigneau and Moldt (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering, PNSE'10, Braga, Portugal, pages 55-70.

Abstract: This paper discusses an application of software agents to improve workflow management systems, with a practical emphasis on Petri net-based systems. The properties of agent technology will be used to gain advantages within the workflow management systems on both a conceptual and practical level. In this paper we discuss the theoretical background of our work, the conceptual idea and approach and one possible practical implementation. As a central practical means we use reference nets, a high-level Petri net formalism. These nets are used to model both agents and workflows, which results in a clean and natural integration of both technologies.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Moldt+10,
  author =   {Moldt, Daniel and Quenum, Jos{\'e} and Reese, Christine and Wagner, Thomas},
  authorplain = {Moldt, Daniel and Quenum, Jose and Reese, Christine and Wagner, Thomas},
  title =        {Improving a Workflow Management System with an Agent Flavour},
  crossref =  {Duvigneau+-e-10},
  pages =  {55--70},
  year =     2010,
  keywords = {High-level Petri nets, workflow management systems,
                  multi-agent systems, software architecture},
  abstract = {This paper discusses an application of software agents to
                  improve workflow management systems, with a practical
                  emphasis on Petri net-based systems. The properties of
                  agent technology will be used to gain advantages within
                  the workflow management systems on both a conceptual and
                  practical level. In this paper we discuss the
                  theoretical background of our work, the conceptual idea
                  and approach and one possible practical implementation.
                  As a central practical means we use reference nets, a
                  high-level Petri net formalism. These nets are used to
                  model both agents and workflows, which results in a clean
                  and natural integration of both technologies.}
}

@Proceedings{Duvigneau+-e-10,
  editor =  {Duvigneau, Michael and Moldt, Daniel},
  title =  {Proceedings of the International Workshop on
                  {Petri} Nets and Software Engineering, PNSE'10,
                  Braga, Portugal},
  booktitle =  {Proceedings of the International Workshop on
                  {Petri} Nets and Software Engineering, PNSE'10,
                  Braga, Portugal},
  number =  {FBI-HH-B-294/10},
  ISBN =   {978-972-8692-55-1},
  url =   {http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/informatik/volltexte/2010/148/},
  series =  {Bericht},
  urn =   {urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-228-7-1488},
  publisher =  FBIUniHHab2006,
  address =  FBIUniAdresse,
  month =  jun,
  year =  2010
}

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