WORKFLAGE: uma ferramenta de definição e criação de Workflow baseado em agentes de software para WEICOT
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2003-11-26
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Universidade Federal do Maranhão
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The Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) have been used in many organizations with the
objective of reducing, improve and control the workflow in their internal process. Current
WfMS are, usually, designed to the administration of loosely structured businesses process,
where the logical flow of the tasks totally predefined. However, not all business processess
are like this. With the coming of the new communication technologies among the
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organizations, the business environment becoming more and more dynamic demanding more
complex processes. Considering this scenario, existent WfMS have some disadvantages and
limitations and need improvements and modifications. Many researchers have been exploring
the power of software agent's technology to provide solutions for current WfMS. There are
several approaches, some are improvements with agents, another are based on agents. In this
work we present the WorkFlage as a tool for the development Workflow Management
Systems based on to technologies of Software Agents for the model proposed by the project
WEICOT. The work is organized in 9 chapters where we cover from the technology of
Workflow, going through a summary of the agents' technology, the state of the art in
workflow based on agents, to case stud y of materials purchase where we demonstrate the
application of the WorkFlage tool. At the end of this work we will make some final
considerations where we propose improvements and suggestions for future works.
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Workflow, WfMS, WEICOT, Agente de Software, WorkFlage, Workflow, WfMS, WEICOT, Software Agents, WorkFalge
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FIALHO, Hugo Sampaio. WORKFLAGE: a tool of definition and creation of Workflow based on agents of software for WEICOT. 2003. 158 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia) - Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luis, 2003.