Workflow Process Creation by Pellucid Agents

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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 Agents
• Architecture
• Implementation

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About the Institute of Informatics

• 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

II SAS, Bratislava Slovak Republic
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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 dont 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 agents
mobility can be exploited.
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Agent Based Workflow

• One activity of a workflow is carried out by one
  agent

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Agent Enhanced Workflow

• 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 gt allowing user to
  start activities gt if task is done gt 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 gt allowing user to
  start activities gt if task is done gt monitoring
  agent created new process graph

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Thank you

• Institute of Informatics
• Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Bratislava
• Slovak Republic
• www.ui.sav.sk