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@ARTICLE{Holvoet95agentsand,
author = {Tom Holvoet},
title = {Agents and Petri Nets},
journal = {Petri Net Newsletter},
year = {1995},
volume = {49}
}
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Abstract
Agents are abstractions for real-world autonomous and cooperating entities. Agent-oriented software development is the most promising approach for the development of complex systems. On the other hand, Petri nets are a good formalism for describing concurrency, synchronisation and causality. After presenting the notion of agents, we present some thoughts on using nets in agent-oriented development of dynamic and flexible software systems. The cover picture shows the model of an imaginary system according to our ideas about combining agents and nets. 1 Introduction Several research disciplines have been searching for an answer to the same fundamental question: "How should we understand the real-world ?" This is a wide-ranging and very intriguing question. For psychologists, an adequate answer to this question would help in describing behaviour of humans in several contexts, such as children in a family situation, adult relationships, religious behaviour, and so on. In the domain of art...
Keyphrases
petri net family situation adequate answer agent-oriented development complex system adult relationship agent-oriented software development flexible software system promising approach fundamental question imaginary system religious behaviour several context good formalism intriguing question cover picture introduction several research discipline
