Coloured Petri Nets: A High Level Language for System Design and Analysis

Autor: Kurt Jensen
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: DAIMI Report Series; Nr. 338 (1990): PB-338 Coloured Petri Nets: A High Level Language for System Design and Analysis
DAIMI Report Series; No 338 (1990): PB-338 Coloured Petri Nets: A High Level Language for System Design and Analysis
ISSN: 2245-9316
0105-8517
Popis: This paper describes how Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets) have been developed - from being a promising theoretical model to being a full-fledged language for the design, specification, simulation, validation and implementation of large software systems (and other systems in which human beings and/or computers communicate by means of some more or less formal rules). First CP-nets are introduced by means of a small example and a formal definition of their structure and behaviour is presented. Then we describe how to extend CP-nets by a set of hierarchy constructs (allowing a hierarchical CP-net to consist of many different subnets, which are related to each other in a formal way). Next we describe how to analyse CP-nets, how to support them by various computer tools, and we also describe some typical applications. Finally, a number of future extensions are discussed (of the net model and the supporting software).
Databáze: OpenAIRE