architecture for intelligent agents, and then constructing a Petri net model systematically from the abstract architecture description of the system. Different scenarios were considered in order to indicate how the Petri net analysis methodologies can be used to assess key system properties, showing that there is a relationship between multi-agent systems with indirect interaction and Petri net...

In its basic version, Petri Nets are defined as fixed graphs, where the behaviour of the system is modelled as the marking of the graph which changes over time. This constraint makes the Petri Nets a poor tool to deal with reconfigurable systems as mobile computing systems, where the structure of the system can change as its behaviour, during time. Many extended Petri nets were proposed to deal...

In this paper, Hybrid Petri Nets are proposed as a modelling methodology to control production in a large class of manufacturing processes. A hybrid Petri net (HPN) is a combination of a ‘classical’ Petri net and a continuous Petri net, the ‘fluid’ version of a timed Petri net. The two parts of an HPN can affect each other. In the particular model proposed, the discrete part of the HPN ‘regulat...

Petri nets were introduced in 1962 by Dr. Carl Adam Petri (Petri 1962). Petri nets are a powerful modeling formalism in computer science, system engineering and many other disciplines. Petri nets combine a well defined mathematical theory with a graphical representation of the dynamic behavior of systems. The theoretic aspect of Petri nets allow precise modeling and analysis of system behavior,...

1.1 Relationship between Petri net and linear logic Petri nets were first introduced by Petri in his seminal Ph.D. thesis, and both the theory and the applications of his model have flourished in concurrency theory (Reisig & Rozenberg, 1998a; Reisig & Rozenberg, 1998b). The relationships between Petri nets and linear logics have been studied by many researchers (Engberg & Winskel, 1997; Farwer,...

Since the ability to describe dynamic in high level, Petri Nets has already been used extensively in logic circuits and systems community for state analysis. As others formal methods, extending Petri Nets to analog circuits analysis requires continuous feature enhanced. In this paper, the object of study is dynamic of circuits with random nonlinear feature (such as random noise and random inter...

In this paper we purpose a Petri-net-based method for describing the model of an object-oriented design of Access Control System (ACS), by specifying the object interaction scenarios as Petri nets with an Augmented Marked Petri Net (AMPN) structure. After synthesizing these scenarios into an integrated net, we analyze the system based on the special properties of AMPN. For unique representation...

A genetic algorithm is used to learn a non-deterministic Petri netbased model of non-linear gene interactions, or statistical epistasis. Petri nets are computational models of concurrent processes. However, often certain global assumptions (e.g. transition priorities) are required in order to convert a non-deterministic Petri net into a simpler deterministic model for easier analysis and evalua...

System analysis is often needed with respect to both qualitative and quantitative aspects. In the last decades, several formalisms have been developed that attempt to combine these aspects in one description. Present emphasis is on Stochastic Petri Nets. Amongst others, one disadvantage of these formalisms lies with the diiculties when describing scheduling strategies with Petri Net elements. T...