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This article presents the formal and applicative aspects of Petri nets (RdP). This is a tool for modeling and analyzing systems in the formof states, transitions and tokens, in which control evolves asynchronously and concurrently. The concept of token is used to represent capacity. Various extensions to RdP are discussed, offering greater functional expressiveness and more compact modeling. Another type of extension involves the incorporation of time. These extensions make it possible to introduce the notions of urgency, watchdog and duration. Finally, a set of application tools is presented for modeling, simulation and code generation.
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David DELFIEU: Lecturer at Polytech'Nantes - Laboratoire des Sciences et du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N), France
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Olivier Henri ROUX: University Professor at École Centrale de Nantes - Laboratoire des Sciences et du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N), France
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Robert VALETTE: Honorary Research Director - LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France
INTRODUCTION
Petri nets can be used to formalize notions of competition, synchronization and resource enumeration, and are a tool for modeling control systems. Extended versions are also available that take into account temporal information. Petri nets are defined mathematically using vector notation. For Petri nets that do not take time into account, a semantic completes the mathematical definition. For temporal extensions, we present several semantics in section 3 , depending on the interpretation of transition "aging". Petri nets were introduced in Carl Adam Petri's 1962 doctoral thesis and taken up by a group of researchers at MIT . Springer Verlag publishes important results in Advances in Petri Nets.
In sections 1.1 and 1.1.2 , we provide a set of definitions of the basic concepts using two different formalisms: a vector (or...
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Petri net | Real time systems | Concurrent System | Modeling tools
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