An Agent-based Object-Oriented Color Petri Net Model with Application to Manufacturing Unit Modeling

This paper extends Objectoriented Color Petri Net to Agentbased Objectoriented Color Petri Net (AOOPN) by introducing three modules, Knowledgebase, Planner and Goal. Taking a manufacturing unit as an example, it then illustrates the modeling method for Agent system and introduces a new communication mechanism to support asynchronous message passing among Agents. By analyzing an ordinary Petri net reduced from the AOOCPN, it concludes that this AOOCPN model is L3live, concurrent and effective.