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Expert Systems
with Applications
Expert Systems with Applications 36 (2009) 2659–2669
ate/eswa
The design of a JADE-based autonomous workflow
management system for collaborative SoC design
Charles V. Trappey a, Amy . Trappey b,e,*, Ching-Jen Huang c, . Ku d
a Department of Management Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC
b Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC
c Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 411, Taiwan, ROC
d Mechanical Industrial Research Institute, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC
e Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC
Abstract
Given a fast changing electronics goods marketplace, designers of integrated circuits ponents need to be petitive,
efficient, flexible, and use collaborative workflow to reduce time-to-market and a project’s life cycle. In recent years, agent-based work-
flow management systems (WfMS) have been widely used to monitor and control business design processes. In this paper, intelligent
agents are applied to the collaborative system-on-chip (SoC) design environment. The proposed JADE-based autonomous workflow
management system (JAWMS) uses a workflow coordination mechanism and an agent integration mechanism to enable the analysis,
management and interaction of automated design processes. The workflow coordination mechanism uses five domain specific agents
to perform the workflow enactment services and a generic agent to control the system flow logic. The system kernel of JAWMS follows
the specifications of the workflow reference model provided by the workflow management coalition (WfMC). The agent integration
mechanism supports an agent to interact with other JADE-based agent platforms and to coordinate