Agent Petri Nets Framework for Modeling Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation - E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks

ETSN > Vol.5 No.1, March 2016

Agent Petri Nets Framework for Modeling Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation ()

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DOI: 10.4236/etsn.2016.51003 2,696 Downloads 3,487 Views Citations

Author(s)

Borhan Marzougui¹, Kamel Barkaoui², Mohamed Amine Makni³

Affiliation(s)

¹Information Technology Department, ECT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
²CNAM, Paris, France.
³National Bone-Marrow Transplantation Center of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.

ABSTRACT

This Staphylococcus epidermidis has been discovered as the most frequent germ detected during indwelling medical devices infection. This fact is well attached with the ability of this bacterium to form structured layered population known as biofilm. Inside S. epidermidis biofilm, bacterial cells present more different behavior than in their planktonic counterpart. This paper describes the thriving application of Petri net theory for modeling of interaction between different regulations actors leading S. epidermidis to switch from Planctonik to Biofilm. Indeed this biologic system is very sensible and has dangerous effect. We propose Agent Petri Nets model to describe and analyze the process of formation of Biofilm molecule. This model presents a formal framework based on Multi Agents system characteristics.

KEYWORDS

Staphylococcus epidermidis, Biofilm, Petri Net, Modeling, Agent

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Marzougui, B. , Barkaoui, K. and Makni, M. (2016) Agent Petri Nets Framework for Modeling Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation. E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks, 5, 19-30. doi: 10.4236/etsn.2016.51003.

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