Traditional workflow management systems are normally governed by
automated processes which define the flow of work throughout the
organisations. However, such processes know only about
themselves,
they do not possess any meta-level awareness. Furthermore, they are not
designed to utilise or understand ontologies; they are not capable of
autonomous action, intentional communication, or deliberatively
cooperative behaviour. In contrast, agents possess all of these
capabilities. we propose an approach to designing multi-agent system
interaction protocols using a business process model as the first step
in multi-agent system based \ workflow system enactment.