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Agent based workflow systems are being discussed by many researchers for a long time. In this paper we present a new collaborative approach for workflow systems. Agents collaborate by forming social network such as societies. Various kinds of societies can exist and that facilitates co-operation and a communal effort towards group oriented problem solving. This framework would help us study the social behavior of real life resources represented by the agents in an agent-based workflow system. The societal framework for the workflow management system would be built upon our existing multi-agent based workflow management system.
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Tony, B., Savarimuthu, R., Purvis, M. (2004). A Collaborative Multi-agent Based Workflow System. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30133-2_158
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