Cooperation protocol of autonomous decentralized systems using Petri nets

Recently, the concepts of autonomous decentralized systems have been introduced which allow us to design, apply, and maintain complicated and enormous systems efficiently. The real problem in autonomous decentralized systems is to determine the cooperation protocol between the components for the purpose of obtaining the target of the whole system, when the components work autonomously. The solution obtained by the determined cooperation protocol should guarantee convergence and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a cooperation protocol which guarantees convergence of the solution using Petri net theory. (C) 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc.