Methodological Societies (1406.3554v1)

Abstract: The evolution of self-adaptive systems poses the problems of their coherence and the resume of the systems' functioning taking into account the accomplished work. While they are the base of the self-adaptive systems, these two aspects are not considered in the related works. In this paper, we propose a methodological based approach. In such approach, the adaptive system's evolution is thought at its model level where its execution is made on the system by exploiting a methodological process. For its concretization, we use colored Petri nets to describe the agents' individual tasks. To handle the system's functioning resume, we exploit the property of Petri nets on which the control flow depends on last marking only.