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Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Workflow Management System

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2001)

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This paper deals with several architectural issues on a mobile agent-based workflow management system(WFMS). We mainly focus on performance and scalability issues among various architectural issues. We point out three major design issues that are indispensable for designing a mobile agent-based WFMS and find solutions for the issues. We propose an efficient design strategy based on the solutions, i.e. a mobile agent-based ‘2-tier distributed workflow server architecture’, ‘process execution structure through hierarchical delegation’ and ‘ introduction of a non-trivial delegation model’. We also present both a mobile agent based 3-tier run-time architecture and a process execution scenario, which are established according to the proposed strategy. Finally, we show the effectiveness of the proposed method by evaluating performance and scalability through GSPN simulation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computer & Software Technology Lab., Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute(TRI), Taejon, Korea

    Jeong-Joon Yoo

  2. Department of Information and Communications, Kwang-Ju Institute of Science and Technology(K-JIST), Kwangju, Korea

    Dong-Ik Lee

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  1. 1Young-Ho Suh
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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

    Samuel Pierre

  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

    Roch Glitho

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Suh, 1H., Namgoong, 1., Yoo, JJ., Lee, DI. (2001). Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Workflow Management System. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_10

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