Modeling Deliberative Agents Using Object Oriented Petri Nets

Multi-agent systems are one of the prospect approaches to simplification of complex system development. They introduce a natural abstraction layer on top of autonomous actors. Since multi-agent systems are strongly parallel the appropriate paradigms or tools have to be used. This article will demonstrate the application of our developed kind of high-level Petri nets to the deliberative agent modeling and simulation. This formalism is called Object Oriented Petri Nets (OOPN). It introduces a powerful means for description of concurrency and a high level of system dynamism. Moreover, OOPNs are a part of a framework intended for simulation based design featuring model continuity. It means that a model developed incrementally in a simulated environment can become a part of target applications.