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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Agent Petri Nets Framework for Modeling Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation

  AUTHORS: Borhan Marzougui, Kamel Barkaoui, Mohamed Amine Makni

  KEYWORDS: Staphylococcus epidermidis, Biofilm, Petri Net, Modeling, Agent

  JOURNAL NAME: E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks, Vol.5 No.1, March 21, 2016

  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.