@Article{buhler03b,
  author =	 {Paul Buhler and Jos\'{e} M. Vidal},
  title =	 {Towards Adaptive Workflow Enactment Using Multiagent
                  Systems},
  journal =	 {Information Technology and Management Journal},
  year =	 2005,
  comment =	 {Special Issue on Universal Enterprise Integration},
  volume = 	 6,
  number = 	 1,
  pages = 	 {61--87},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/papers/buhler03b.pdf},
  abstract =	 {Advances in Information Technology have created
                  opportunities for business enterprises to redesign
                  their information and process management
                  systems. The redesigned systems will likely employ
                  some form of workflow management system. Workflow
                  management systems exactly enact business processes
                  described in a process description
                  language. Unfortunately, such strict adherence to
                  the prescribed workflow makes it impossible for the
                  system to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. We
                  firmly believe that the historic trajectory of
                  software development paradigms and IT advancements
                  will establish multiagent systems as the workflow
                  enactment mechanism of the future. In this paper we
                  provide a critical survey of workflow, workflow
                  description languages, web services and agent
                  technologies. We propose that workflow description
                  languages and their associated design tools can be
                  used to specify a multiagent system. Specifically,
                  we advance the idea that the Business Process
                  Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) can be
                  used as a specification language for expressing the
                  initial social order of the multiagent system, which
                  can then intelligently adapt to changing
                  environmental conditions.},
  doi = 	 {10.1007/s10799-004-7775-2},
  googleid = 	 {AdivDC4gh-EJ:scholar.google.com/},
  keywords = 	 {multiagent workflow},
  cluster = 	 {16250993162543159297}
}