Evaluation of a multi-agent based workflow management system modeled using coloured Petri nets

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3371, Issue , 2005, Pages 206-216

  Purvis, Maryam ^a   Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy ^a   Purvis, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PETRI NETS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; STANDARDS;

COLOURED PETRI NETS; COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS (FIPA).; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT-BASED COMMUNICATION; AGENT-BASED WORKFLOW SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS (FIPA); WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

EID: 26844433644     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32128-6_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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