集成工作流与Multi-agents技术的供应链协同管理

Integration of Workflow and Multi-agents for Supply Chain Coordination

提出了集成工作流与软件Agent技术的供应链协同管理框架及方法，通过工作流管理系统及多Agent的设计，应用XML描述的工作流过程规范，由软件Agent实时地执行和重置具体的工作流任务，从而达到供应链协调管理的目的。

This paper is to present an architecture for supply chain coordination by integration workflow and agents technologies. In this framework, workflow processes are defined by configuration workflow specifications from the user in XML conforming to a workflow.dtd. The software agents are employed to fulfill the specified workflow tasks. The result is to provide a flexible, configurable and coordinated approach to achieve efficient and cost-effective management across the entire supply chain.