A Petri net simulation tool

Author

Shukla, Ashish ; Robbi, Anthony D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

13-16 Oct 1991

Firstpage

361

Abstract

A user-friendly and highly-interactive graphical tool for drawing, editing and simulating translated Petri net models was developed. The tool was programmed in the C programming language under the UNIX operating system and the window-based SunView environment, on the SUN/13 workstation. This SunView-based tool allows simulation to be carried out in the step and run modes. In the run mode it produces a log file of the simulation run which consists of: (a) total number of tokens in the net; (b) names of the transitions that fired; and (c) the system state reached after each step´s execution. The tool offers a means to rigorously model concurrent and interlocked systems such as computer systems, modular software, flexible manufacturing systems and communication protocols

Keywords

Petri nets; digital simulation; software tools; C programming language; Petri net simulation tool; SUN/13 workstation; UNIX operating system; communication protocols; computer systems; concurrent systems; digital simulation; drawing; editing; flexible manufacturing systems; highly-interactive graphical tool; interlocked systems; modular software; run mode; software tools; step mode; window-based SunView environment; Communication system software; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Operating systems; Software systems; Software tools; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1991. 'Decision Aiding for Complex Systems, Conference Proceedings., 1991 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Charlottesville, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0233-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1991.169711

Filename

169711