DartFlow: A Workflow Management System on the Web using Transportable Agents

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR96-283

	Ting Cai
	Peter A. Gloor
	Saurab Nog

Date: May 1996

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Abstract:
 Workflow management systems help streamline business processes and increase
 productivity. This paper describes the design and implementation of the
 DartFlow workflow management system. DartFlow uses Web-browser embedded Java
 applets as its front end and transportable agents as the backbone. While Java
 applets provide a safe and platform independent GUI, the use of transportable
 agents makes DartFlow highly flexible and scalable. This paper describes the
 design and implementation of DartFlow, as well as a workflow application that
 exploits DartFlow's agent-based design.