%T DartFlow: A Workflow Management System on the Web using Transportable Agents
%A Ting Cai
%A Peter A. Gloor
%A Saurab Nog
%R Technical Report PCS-TR96-283
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D May 1996
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR96-283.ps.Z
%X
 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.