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Synthesis and Analysis of Product-form Petri Nets

Discrete Mathematics 2012-04-17 v2

Abstract

For a large Markovian model, a "product form" is an explicit description of the steady-state behaviour which is otherwise generally untractable. Being first introduced in queueing networks, it has been adapted to Markovian Petri nets. Here we address three relevant issues for product-form Petri nets which were left fully or partially open: (1) we provide a sound and complete set of rules for the synthesis; (2) we characterise the exact complexity of classical problems like reachability; (3) we introduce a new subclass for which the normalising constant (a crucial value for product-form expression) can be efficiently computed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1104.0291,
  title  = {Synthesis and Analysis of Product-form Petri Nets},
  author = {Serge Haddad and Jean Mairesse and Hoang-Thach Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0291},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

This is a version including proofs of the conference paper: Haddad, Mairesse and Nguyen. Synthesis and Analysis of Product-form Petri Nets. Accepted at the conference Petri Nets 2011