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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Petri Nets

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 460-6005/01
Abbreviation PS
Course title Petri Nets
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Petr Jančar, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Problem of analysis, modelling and design of complex systems with parallelism and hierarchical structure. Net methods to solve the problem. Definition and classification of Petri nets.
Informal introduction into modelling by Petri nets I: C/E Petri nets, P/T Petri nets. Petri nets with inhibitors.
Informal introduction into modelling by Petri nets II: high-level Petri nets, coloured Petri nets, hierarchical Petri nets.
Structures, systems and parametrized systems of Petri nets. Statics and dynamics of Petri nets. Markings, and the reachability set of a PN-system. Reachability graph.
Petri nets properties: boundedness, liveness, deadlock-freeness, reversibility, conservativeness. The reachability problem. State analysis of Petri nets.
Structure analysis of Petri nets. The fundamental equation. P-invariants, T-invariants, net components. Dual nets.
Special types of Petri nets: automata nets, synchronization nets, free-choice nets.
Synthesis of safe, live and reversible Petri nets. Hiearachization via substitution of places and transitions.
Petri net languages, their relation to Chomsky hierarchy.
High Level Petri Nets (HLPN).
Coloured Petri Nets (CPN), the most used version of HLPN.
CPN nonhierarchical; structure and dynamics.
CPN hierarchical. Substitution and invocation of places and
transitions. Fusing of places and transitions.

Literature

K.Jensen, L.M.Kristensen: Coloured Petri Nets (Modelling and
Validation of Concurrent Systems), Springer, 2009.

Advised literature

W.Reisig-G.Rozenberg (Eds.): Lectures on Petri Nets I: Basic Models, LNCS 1491, Springer, 1998.
W.Reisig-G.Rozenberg (Eds.): Lectures on Petri Nets II: Applications, LNCS 1492, Springer, 1998.
M.A.Marsan, G.Balbo, G.Conte, S.Donatelli, G.Franceschinis: Modelling with Generalised Stochastic Petri Nets. Series in Parallel Computing, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.