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Manual Intervention and Statefulness in Agent-Involved Workflow Management Systems

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Lack of adaptability within WorkFlow Management Systems (WFMS) has been early identified as one of their limitations. WFMS suffer from disadvantages such as not supporting the dynamic incorporation/modification of process models and poor adaptability of process models at runtime. The static workflow definition and its passive interpretation does not allow WFMS to demonstrate flexible behavior and to deal with real-life situations, such as fast changing customer requirements and enterprise goal shifts. In this work we propose the design and development of two features (manual intervention and statefulness), which are expected to tackle this limitation. Our work considers and agent-based environment for the WFMS implementation.

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  1. Kavala Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece

    Pavlos Delias

  2. Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

    Stelios Tsafarakis & Anastasios Doulamis

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  1. Dept. Computer Science & A.I., University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Jorge Casillas

  2. Dept. of Management, University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Francisco J. Martínez-López

  3. Department of Computing Science, and Control, Universidad Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced, s/n s/n, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

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Delias, P., Tsafarakis, S., Doulamis, A. (2012). Manual Intervention and Statefulness in Agent-Involved Workflow Management Systems. In: Casillas, J., Martínez-López, F., Corchado Rodríguez, J. (eds) Management Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 171. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30864-2_23

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