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Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents

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Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 1999)

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The paper describes an infrastructure for implementation of workflow management system using mobile agents. The usage of mobile agents in modelling and implementation of a workflow is a novel approach and simplifies the workflow management. Besides, the suggested infrastructure introduces fresh ideas in the field of mobile agents as well.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Trg D. Obradovića 4, 21000, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

    Zoran Budimac, Mirjana Ivanović & Aleksandar Popović

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  1. Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Informatics, University of Klagenfurt, Uiversitätsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Johann Eder

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia

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Budimac, Z., Ivanović, M., Popović, A. (1999). Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents. In: Eder, J., Rozman, I., Welzer, T. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48252-0_13

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