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Workflow management systems are responsible for modeling and execution of business processes that are widely used as workflow systems in different organizations. The main advantage of the workflow management systems is to improve the efficiency of organizations and control of the processes. However, one of the main drawbacks in the current workflow management systems is the way that they can deal with changes in the workflow systems. In the other words, their capability of dynamic handling of changes occurred. Since a workflow system may be affected by different changes while it is applied in an organization, handling these changes efficiently and during its execution through a dynamic... 

A workflow management system is a software system which manages and coordinates the operational tasks of an organization. Typically, the def­ inition of a workflow involves human and computer resources and tools on various geographic locations, and thus the concerns of distributed systems are one of the main challenges in this domain. Following this,allocating various resources to different tasks of a workflow and schedul­ ing them in a manner which satisfies some predefined constraints is one of the new and fundamental challenges in this field.The main goal of this research is to design an agent-oriented workflow system which utilizes a novel method for resource allocation and schedul­ ing...