An Adaptive Workflow Engine Based on Web Services and Agents

At present workflow management systems are widely used to manage business processes in an organization, while the workflow engine provides a runtime execution environment, manages the overall processing and execution of workflow instances. One of the major limitations of current workflow engine is the lack of flexibility to support adaptive environments. In this paper we propose an adaptive workflow engine based on web services and multiagent technologies to support dynamic interpreting, configuration, monitoring and executing workflows. The main feature of this workflow engine is to integrate event-driven process execution, a unified interaction interface with external environments and exception handling mechanism.