A Proposal for Structuring Petri Net-Based Agent Interaction Protocols

Cabac, Lawrence; Moldt, Daniel; Rölke, Heiko

doi:10.1007/3-540-44919-1_10

Cited by 26 publications

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“…from UML or AUML interaction diagrams (see [4])) to DAML-S descriptions. Apart from that it would be of great interest to verify certain properties of the nets generated or of those to be exported as DAML-S.…”

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confidence: 99%

DaGen: A Tool for Automatic Translation from DAML-S to High-Level Petri Nets

Moldt

Ortmann

2004

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract. The Internet provides possibilities for distributed execution of business processes and Web Services. This caused the emergence of a variety of Web Services that might be composed to accomplish tasks. To efficiently compose these tasks a simple workflow description no longer suffices. We therefore suggest a description based on high-level Petri nets called reference nets, allowing for the consideration of pre-and post-conditions of services offered on the Internet. We demonstrate how DAML-S models can be automatically translated into high-level nets and thus can be directly executed in such contexts, including Petri net based MAS.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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DaGen: A Tool for Automatic Translation from DAML-S to High-Level Petri Nets

Moldt

Ortmann

2004

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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“…Figure 5 shows some plug-ins of the current decomposition. 3 At the bottom, there are some unnamed class libraries that are used by many or all plug-ins. Some of these libraries are integrated into the application as a plug-in of their own, but they do not provide any extension interfaces.…”

Section: Functional Decompositionmentioning

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“…The NetComponents plug-in extends the graphical editor by toolbars of commonly used net patterns. Such a toolbar is defined by the MulanComponents plug-in, these patterns have been presented in [3].…”

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Applying Multi-agent Concepts to Dynamic Plug-In Architectures

Cabac

Duvigneau

Moldt

et al. 2006

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI

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Abstract. In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from the Petri netbased MAS framework Mulan. By transferring the concepts of agentorientation to a plug-in-based architecture we are able to design our application and the plug-in-based system on an abstract level. Moreover, general problems that evolve from a highly dynamic and configurable architecture have been solved by basing the conceptual design on multi-agent principles. In this paper we discuss the general properties of extensible systems and the benefits that can be achieved when applying the multi-agent view to their architecture. In addition to the conceptual modeling of such architectures, we provide a practical example where the concept has been successfully applied in the development of the latest release of Renew. Through the introduction of the multi-agent concepts, the new architecture is now -at runtime -dynamically extensible by registering plug-ins with the management system.

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“…An example is the NetComponents plug-in, as presented in [1]. It allows to add new tool bars to the user interface at runtime, where each button creates a small component of net structure that is often used during a development process.…”

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“…It allows to add new tool bars to the user interface at runtime, where each button creates a small component of net structure that is often used during a development process. Different component sets are available, depending on the application area: the tool bar from [1] comprises patterns for creating Mulan/Capa protocol nets. A different tool bar covers some workflow patterns, as presented in [11].…”

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An Extensible Editor and Simulation Engine for Petri Nets: Renew

Kummer

Wienberg

Duvigneau

et al. 2004

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Renew is a computer tool that supports the development and execution of object-oriented Petri nets, which include net instances, synchronous channels, and seamless Java integration for easy modelling. Renew is available free of charge including the Java source code. Due to the growing application area more and more requirements had to be fulfilled by the tool set. Therefore, the architecture of the tool has been refactored to gain more flexibility. Now new features allow for plug-ins on the level of concepts (net formalisms) and on the level of applications (e.g. workflow or agents).

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A Proposal for Structuring Petri Net-Based Agent Interaction Protocols

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

DaGen: A Tool for Automatic Translation from DAML-S to High-Level Petri Nets

DaGen: A Tool for Automatic Translation from DAML-S to High-Level Petri Nets

Applying Multi-agent Concepts to Dynamic Plug-In Architectures

An Extensible Editor and Simulation Engine for Petri Nets: Renew

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