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Providing an Agent Flavored Integration for Workflow Management

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Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency V

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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.

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    Thomas Wagner, José Quenum, Daniel Moldt & Christine Reese

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Wagner, T., Quenum, J., Moldt, D., Reese, C. (2012). Providing an Agent Flavored Integration for Workflow Management. In: Jensen, K., Donatelli, S., Kleijn, J. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6900. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29072-5_11

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