Modelling the structure and behaviour of petri net agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2075, Issue , 2001, Pages 224-241

  Köhler, Michael ^a   Moldt, Daniel ^a   Rölke, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent; Behaviour; Concurrency; Modelling; Multi agent system; Nets within nets; Petri net; Reference net; Structure

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

AGENT BASED COMPUTING; BEHAVIOUR; COLOURED PETRI NETS; CONCURRENCY; DYNAMIC COMPOSITION; GRAPHICAL MODELLING; NETS-WITHIN-NETS; REFERENCE NET;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84947220045     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45740-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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