Create A Component-based Lightweight Migration Instance

Workflow Management is a technology that can integrate and implement business process automatically/semi-automatically. With its abilities to facilitate man-machine cooperation, simplify task complexity, it has become one of the hottest research issues in many fields such as computer science, automation science, management science and advanced manufacture.Based on the traditional workflow technology, through incorporating mobile computing technology, we can divide the migrating workflow system into three parts: Workflow Engine, Workplace and Migrating Instance. Workflow execution can be interpreted as a process of migrating instance bringing with workflow business process explanation, finding out resources autonomously and migrating to the destination workplace, finishing it's task and returning back to the home site.Because of the migrating instance, migrating workflow management system becomes more intelligent and more flexible, which makes it more advanced and more sophisticated compared with the traditional workflow. Especially as far as the construction of migrating instance concerned, that how we construct migrating instance, on the one part, can enable it to connect with workflow engine seamlessly; on the other, can avoid the huge sophisticated architecture which makes migrating instance unable to migrate lightly has become an important issue.The migrating instance executes the tasks of migrating workflow management system autonomously. A workflow management system, which manages a business process whether within an organization or cross-organizations, usually works in a specific trusted environment in practice. Based on such assumes, referencing the concept model of migrating workflow, Aiming at this specific trusted environment, using mobile agent paradigm, we have researched migrating instance and proposed a method to construct migrating...