Research of Exception Handling in Workflow Management System Based on Agents Group

Along with rapid development of workflow technology, on the market, there are a lot of workflow products. Workflow exception handling study in the exception of workflow, through the appropriate method to deal effectively with the exception to ensure the implementation of the workflow. Most existing research on workflow management systems (WFMS) has been focused on workflow based on well structured and well-behaved business processes. But it is devoid of the advisement of flexibility and uncertainty. This paper proposes an Agents group based approach for exception handling. Agents group is dispatched to find out the status of running processes in the system to keep track and troubleshoot them when necessary. This model describes the classification of workflow exception, and the corresponding design of different type of exception handing agents and their cooperation.