= 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''. === Techniques and Artifacts of PAOSE === [[Image(Paose-detailed.png)]]