PAOSE

The Petri Net-Based Agent-Oriented Software Engineering aims at the development of concurrent, distributed systems. It offers the concepts, methods and principles that lead to a systematic Petri net-based software development for multi-agent applications.

P*

Although in its original sense P stands for Petri nets, it could as well (and often does) stand for Prototype, Perspective or Plugin. Thus PAOSE is sometimes depicted as P*AOSE.