Agent-based Workflow Management System

Workflow technology is always a hotspot in the area of computer research and application. For great efficiency and speed in businesses, The target of Workflow Management Systems is implementing business process with great efficiency and speed by management of resources associated with the business process. Although the progress of workflow technology is great since 1980s, it needs be studied in-depth. It is very important for improving the information standard and operation efficiency of enterprises and making enterprises more competitive.In this paper, the first thing is going deep into the basic theory of workflow technology, and then concluding the deficiency, and bringing forword the point of view: agent-based workflow management system. Second, agent technology is introduced at length, especially mobile agent. The primary characteristic and superority of mobile agent is fetched out by researching the application of mobile agent. Third, basing on the result of the research, the system design of agent-based workflow management system is brought up, and the mechanism is analyzed and demostrated in detail, and then the feasibility and superority of agent-based wordflow management system is elicited. Finally, the code implement of the system design is presented by experiment-system. The superority of agent-based workflow management system is present itself in a degree. Especially, web-based client brings the business of enterprises to the Internet for distributed working and inter-enterprise corporation.In a word, the research here brings up a availabile technique to strengthen function of workflow management systems.