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A Fuzzy Timed Object-Oriented Petri Net for Multi-Agent Systems

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Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008 (ISNN 2008)

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In this paper, a multi-agent system (MAS) modeling method called fuzzy timed object-oriented Petri nets (FTOPN) is proposed. FTO-PN has extended Petri nets (PN) supporting object-oriented modeling and temporal fuzzy learning based on timed hierarchical object-oriented Petri net (TOPN) and fuzzy timed Petri net (FTPN). Our focus is the adaptation according to TOPN concepts of cooperation objects for supporting synchronous and asynchronous communications and the temporal fuzzy learning proposed in FTPN. These two diagrams have been chosen because they are the most commonly used in modeling MAS and describing agent learning and reasoning ability. That is to say, they can be used to model and illustrate both the structural and dynamic aspects of MAS. Not only the proposed FTOPN can be used to model complex MAS, but also FTOPN model can be refined into the object-oriented implementation easily. It has bridged the gap between the formal modeling and the system refinement, which can overcome the development problems in agent-oriented software engineering. At the same time, it also can be regarded as a conceptual and practical artificial intelligence (AI) tool for the integration of MAS into the mainstream practice of software development.

This work is jointly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 60405011, 60575057) and China Postdoctoral Foundation for China Postdoctoral Science Fund (Grant No: 20040350078).

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  1. State Key Laboratory on Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Hua Xu & Peifa Jia

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghu University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Fuchun Sun

  2. Institute TAMS (Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems), department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Koelln-Straße 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Jianwei Zhang

  3. Intel China Research Center, 8/F, Peking University, Department of Machine Intelligence, 100871, Beijing, China

    Ying Tan

  4. Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, 210096, Nanjing, China

    Jinde Cao

  5. Departamento de Control Automático, CINVESTAV-IPN, A.P. 14-740, Av.IPN 2508, 07360, México D.F., México

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Xu, H., Jia, P. (2008). A Fuzzy Timed Object-Oriented Petri Net for Multi-Agent Systems. In: Sun, F., Zhang, J., Tan, Y., Cao, J., Yu, W. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008. ISNN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5264. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87734-9_24

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