1. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID1 Workflow Process Creation by Pellucid Agents Michal Laclavik, Zoltan Balogh Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID2 Overview  Project & Motivation  Workflow and Agents  Architecture  Implementation

3. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID3 About the Institute of Informatics II SAS, Bratislava Slovak Republic is one of more than 50 scientific and research institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. The scope of activities include scientific and research work in: computer science, information technology, agent research control theory, robotics and artificial intelligence

4. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID4 The PELLUCID Project Basic Information ● Consortium: 8 organizations from 5 countries ● 3 academic ● 2 commercial companies ● 3 pilot application sites ● Duration: 32 months ● Work Packages: 10 ● Started: March 1, 2002 ● Overall Project Budget: 3,138,476 EURO ● EC Contribution: 1,700,000 EURO ● Total Person Months: 399

5. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID5 Statement Pellucid IST project is dealing with well defined Workflow processes. This article don’t describe ideas used in Pellucid but ideas for possible extensions of pellucid.

6. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID6 Agents & Workflow Agents can improve workflow. Agents are especially useful in distributed workflow environments, where the advantages of the agent’s mobility can be exploited.

7. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID7 Agent Based Workflow Agent A Activity A Agent B Activity B Agent N Activity N One activity of a workflow is carried out by one agent

8. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID8 Agent Enhanced Workflow Activity A Activity BActivity N Existing Workflow System Agent A Agent B Agent N Functions above the existing systems

9. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID9 Our Ideas Set of Activities = Agents  Time to accomplish, permissions  Set of activities required to finish before Set of Processes = Graph of Activities  Valued Graph - activity has certain permissions  Graph algorithms – best accomplishing of tasks Set of Tasks = certain goals to be accomplished by processes

10. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID10 Our Solution - Architecture Monitoring Agent  Creating process graph Personal Assistant Agent  Searching for best process to accomplishing task X  Starting process  If no process for task X => allowing user to start activities => if task is done => monitoring agent created new process graph

11. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID11 Architecture

12. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID12 Our Solution - Architecture Monitoring Agent  Creating process graph Personal Assistant Agent  Searching for best process to accomplishing task X  Starting process  If no process for task X => allowing user to start activities => if task is done => monitoring agent created new process graph

13. Institute of Informatics: PELLUCID13 Thank you Institute of Informatics Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava Slovak Republic www.ui.sav.sk