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A Multi Agent Net Model of Autonomous Distributed Systems.

Miyamoto, T.; Kumagai, S.

In: Proc. of Computational Engineering in Systems Applications'96 (CESE'96) Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems, 9-12 July 1996, Lille, France, pages 619-623. July 1996.

Abstract: When we design a huge system, it will be more effective to consider the system as a set of plural objects, and to design each object and relations among objects. This concept is well known for object-oriented methodologies. To consider the control of such system, it will be hard to apply the traditional centralized control because of the deficiencies in robustness, flexibility, and set-up speed of the control. To overcome this problem it is necessary to implement an autonomous distributed system. In this system, each object acts on its own judgment in order to accomplish the purpose of the whole system. Petri nets are well known for an efficient mathematical model for concurrent systems. Thus an integration of the concepts of Petri nets and object-oriented methodologies will bring us a good model to describe autonomous distributed systems. In this paper, we discuss a multi agent net model for autonomous distributed systems.

Keywords: multi agent systems, autonomous distributed systems, object-oriented methodology, agent net.


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