TimeNET-a toolkit for evaluating non-Markovian stochastic Petri nets

Stochastic Petri nets are well suited for the model-based performance and dependability evaluation of complex systems. Most commonly, the firing times of the transitions are exponentially distributed, leading to an underlying continuous-time Markov chain. In order to increase the modeling power, several classes of non-Markovian SPNs were defined, in which the transitions may fire after a nonexponentially distributed firing time. TimeNET (Timed Petri Net Evaluation Tool) is a software package for the modeling and evaluation of SPNs in which the firing times of the transitions may be exponentially distributed, deterministic, or more generally distributed. TimeNET has been developed at the Technical University of Berlin in several research projects