Enacting Proactive Workflows Engine in e-Science.
Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli

abstract:
The dynamic nature and the geographic distribution of
scientific resources, require flexible and adaptive computational environment
where an in-silico experiment can be executed as a workflow
of activities. In this paper, we propose a software environment to dynamically
generate domain-specific, agent-based workflow engines from
workflow specifications. The workflow engine is a proactive multiagent
system -a distributed, concurrent system- whose autonomous components
interact in performing the workflow activities in a specific domain.
The proposed approach has been implemented on Hermes, agent-based
mobile computing middleware, and tested within “Oncology over Internet”
project.