Understanding Petri Nets

This book offers a clear, thorough introduction to Petri nets. The explanations are supported throughout with fully integrated graphical illustrations, with only the analysis and verification presented in a formal manner.

Presents essentials of this powerful well-established modeling technique

Includes exercises and fully integrated illustrations

Foreword written by the inventor of the technique

Presents essentials of this powerful well-established modeling technique Includes exercises and fully integrated illustrations Foreword written by the inventor of the technique Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reisig is a professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He has over 30 years experience in the theory, applications, and teaching of Petri nets and related techniques; and he has been closely involved in the key community initiatives such as related conferences. Among his books are Springer titles in the areas of Petri nets, distributed algorithmsm, and computational systems biology.

Inhalt
Part I Modeling Techniques.- Chap. 1 An Example.- Chap. 2 The Basic Concepts.- Chap. 3 Common Special Case: Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 4 Sequential and Distributed Runs.- Chap. 5 Scenarios.- Chap. 6 Further Notation for Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 7 The Synthesis Problem.- Chap. 8 Composition of Nets.- Part II Analysis Methods.- Chap. 9 State Properties.- Chap. 10 Traps and Co-traps of Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 11 Place Invariants of Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 12 Combining Traps and Place Invariants of Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 13 Traps and Place Invariants of Generic System Nets.- Chap. 14 Marking and Covering Graphs.- Chap. 15 Reachability in Elementary System Nets.- Chap. 16 Run Properties.- Chap. 17 Free-Choice Nets.- Chap. 18 Marked Graphs.- Chap. 19 Well-Formed System Nets.- Part III Case Studies.- Chap. 20 Mutual Exclusion.- Chap. 21 Asynchronous Hardware.