Cinco-Based Approach for Agent Petri Net Models

Abstract

In this paper, a simplified simulation approach of the Agent Petri Nets (APN) model is proposed to facilitate and accelerate the development and evaluation of system models. The main idea is to apply the new trends of model-driven approach to the design of specific tools and provide facilities to evaluate quickly the developed system. The CINCO tooling suite is used to full generation of a specific graphical modelling tool for the APN model. The simulation code is simply added to the generated code. This tool allows users to build models based on Agent Petri Nets formalism and at the same time to execute these models. Combined APN with the CINCO tool greatly simplifies the development of modelling applications and allows users to get an early experience with a prototype system. To highlight the ability of the proposed tool, a real-life example of a traffic light adaptive system is considered and discussed here.