BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR96-283
ENTRY:: May 15, 1996
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: DartFlow: A Workflow Management System on the Web using Transportable Agents
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Cai, Ting
AUTHOR:: Gloor, Peter A.
AUTHOR:: Nog, Saurab
DATE:: May 1996
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR96-283.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR96-283.pdf
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.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR96-283