面向业务过程管理的Agent平台的设计及实现

Design and Implementation for Business Process Management Oriented Agent Platform

业务过程管理能够支持企业业务流程优化运行,因而日益成为学术界和工业界研究和开发的重点。目前绝大多数的业务过程管理系统都是在传统的工作流管理系统基础上的扩展,因而具有适应性能力不强等缺点。介绍了一个面向业务过程管理的Agent平台,它包含了Agent的建模工具和运行环境。对该Agent的模型、相关工具和环境的实现方法进行了说明。该平台能够方便地支持面向业务过程管理的Agent的构造,并提供了求解业务问题的能力。

Business process management,as a technology to support optimal execution of enterprise business processes, has becoming a research and development focus both in academic and industry. Since most of business process management systems are extended from traditional workflow management system, they have some shortcomings such as poor adaptability. A business process oriented agent platform was introduced, which includes an agent modeling tool and an agent runtime environment. The agent model, the implementation of tools and environment were discussed. This platform can support the construction and execution of agents for business process management and also provides the capability of business problem solving capability to the agents.