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The paper describes an infrastructure for implementation of workflow management system using mobile agents. The usage of mobile agents in modelling and implementation of a workflow is a novel approach and simplifies the workflow management. Besides, the suggested infrastructure introduces fresh ideas in the field of mobile agents as well.
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Budimac, Z., Ivanović, M., Popović, A. (1999). Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents. In: Eder, J., Rozman, I., Welzer, T. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48252-0_13
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