Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007)
Modeling electronic institutions with extended colored Petri net
Haier International Training Center, Qingdao, China
July 30-August 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2909-7
Guoyong Cai, Zhejiang University, China; Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Ji Gao, Zhejiang University, China; Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Yong Huang, Zhejiang University, China; Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
One of the most fundamental challenges in multi-agent system engineering is to enable predictable and reliable interaction amongst group of autonomy agents. Electronic Institution (EI) has been proposed as an important framework to deal with these challenges. A colored Petri net transducer (CPNt) approach is presented to represent an EI visually and formally. With existing CPN tools, an EI model can be simulated and verified automatically. Validated EI model serves as a fundamental mechanism to influence and constraint interactive behaviors of autonomy agents. As a result, predictable and reliable multi-agent system can be obtained. Comparing with other approaches, this approach has solid theoretic basis as it is extended from Petri net. Therefore existing engineering methodology of Petri net can be adapted to engineering electronic institution conveniently. A simple example is applied to illustrate the whole process of the proposed approach.
Citation:
Guoyong Cai, Ji Gao, Yong Huang, "Modeling electronic institutions with extended colored Petri net," snpd, vol. 3, pp.1072-1077, Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007), 2007