Introduction to Petri nets

Cabasino MP;GIUA, ALESSANDRO;SEATZU, CARLA

2013-01-01

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Abstract

Petri nets are one of the most important discrete event systems formalisms. Three are the main reasons of this. Firstly, they provide a rich family of both logic and timed models, that share a set of formal tools. Secondly, they can be used in all phases of design of a control system. Finally, Petri nets have been successfully used in several research domains, such as max-plus algebra, markovian processes, supervisory control, etc. In this chapter we provide the basic notations and results in this framework, only focusing on a purely logic model called place/transition net.