An Agent-Based Workflow System for Assisting in IC Design

Author

Fang, Guo-Ming ; Lin, Jim-Min ; Hong, Zeng-Wei ; Chen, De-Sheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

1-3 April 2009

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

355

Abstract

A workflow management system is used to provide the automation and reengineering of a process. In an IC design cycle, several software tools are used to support different activities. These tools may be distributed on separate computers. An agent-based workflow management system is proposed in this paper to integrate these tools by using a scripting language. Relevant distributed software tools in agencies are managed by local agents to provide needed services. Mobile agents are used to access these services by following the proposed scripts.

Keywords

authoring languages; circuit CAD; mobile agents; software tools; workflow management software; IC design; agent-based workflow management system; distributed software tool; electronic design automation; mobile agent; process automation; process reengineering; scripting language; Automatic control; Computational modeling; Computer science; Data engineering; Design engineering; Distributed computing; Electronic design automation and methodology; Mobile agents; Software tools; Workflow management software; IC design; agent system; script; workflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2009. ACIIDS 2009. First Asian Conference on

Conference_Location

Dong Hoi

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3580-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACIIDS.2009.12

Filename

5176019