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Workflow Process Creation by Pellucid Agents

Michal Laclavik, Zoltan Balogh

Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Overview

Project & Motivation Workflow and AgentsArchitectureImplementation

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About the Institute of Informatics

II SAS, BratislavaSlovak Republic

is one of more than 50 scientific and research institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.

The scope of activities include scientific and research work in:• computer science, • information technology, • agent research• control theory, • robotics and • artificial intelligence

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The PELLUCID Project Basic Information

● Consortium: 8 organizations from 5 countries● 3 academic● 2 commercial companies● 3 pilot application sites

● Duration: 32 months● Work Packages: 10● Started: March 1, 2002● Overall Project Budget: 3,138,476 EURO● EC Contribution: 1,700,000 EURO● Total Person Months: 399

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Statement

Pellucid IST project is dealing with well defined Workflow processes.

This article don’t describe ideas used in Pellucid but ideas for possible extensions of pellucid.

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Agents & Workflow

Agents can improve workflow. Agents are especially useful in distributed workflow environments, where the advantages of the agent’s mobility can be exploited.

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Agent Based Workflow

Agent A

Activity A

Agent B

Activity B

Agent N

Activity N

One activity of a workflow is carried out by one agent

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Agent Enhanced Workflow

Activity A Activity B Activity N

Existing Workflow System

Agent A Agent B Agent N

Functions above the existing systems

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Our Ideas

Set of Activities = Agents Time to accomplish, permissions Set of activities required to finish before

Set of Processes = Graph of Activities Valued Graph - activity has certain permissions Graph algorithms – best accomplishing of tasks

Set of Tasks = certain goals to be accomplished by processes

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Our Solution - Architecture

Monitoring Agent Creating process graph

Personal Assistant Agent Searching for best process to accomplishing

task X Starting process If no process for task X => allowing user to

start activities => if task is done => monitoring agent created new process graph

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Architecture

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Our Solution - Architecture

Monitoring Agent Creating process graph

Personal Assistant Agent Searching for best process to accomplishing

task X Starting process If no process for task X => allowing user to

start activities => if task is done => monitoring agent created new process graph

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Thank you

Institute of InformaticsSlovak Academy of SciencesBratislavaSlovak Republic

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