Toward a New Model of the Petri Nets: Agent Petri Nets

This paper belongs to the domain of the engineering of the Petri Net (PN) and Multi agent Systems (MAS). It aims to defining a new formalism for the modeling of MAS. This formalism is based on agents called Agent Petri Nets (APN). That´s why, the definitions that manipulate the internal state of the agent and its behavior are proposed. Indeed, the other formalisms are no more capable of modeling the systems of large size and the interaction between the entities that compose them. The proposed mathematical definitions help us in modeling rigorously and without ambiguity the interactive systems. So, the proposed model describes in a quite natural way the MAS. To validate our approach, we will deal with simple examples.