Formalizing workflows as cooperative agents
Chitta Baral and Jorge Lobo.
Abstract
In this paper we present a formal model
to characterize cooperative
agents in a workflow setting in terms of activities,
description of effect of activities, and definition of
activities as execution of programs and control modules. We define the
correctness of a sequential control module,
give sufficiency conditions about the
rules in the module, and use the sufficiency conditions
to give a naive algorithm to
construct sequential control modules. Finally, we extend
our notion of correctness to non-sequential control modules.