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Agents and Workflow -- An Intimate Connection, or Just Friends?

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This panel addresses the perspective that agents and workflow can be seen as an evolution of components and scripting. There are several ways in which agents can be used to perform or support a workflow, and several ways in which workflow can be used to orchestrate or control the interactions between agents. The panelists explore several of these connections and various applications of agents and workflow. They discuss some of these relationships between agents and workflow, and propose opportunities for research and practice.

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Boboila CBoboila M(2007)An optimized hierarchical model for agent-mediated e-commerceProceedings of the 8th Conference on 8th WSEAS Int. Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics - Volume 810.5555/1347862.1347868(156-161)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1347862.1347868

Agents and Workflow -- An Intimate Connection, or Just Friends?
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence

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Boboila CBoboila M(2007)An optimized hierarchical model for agent-mediated e-commerceProceedings of the 8th Conference on 8th WSEAS Int. Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics - Volume 810.5555/1347862.1347868(156-161)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2007
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