Automating the Conversion of Colored Petri Nets with Qualitative Tokens Into Colored Petri Nets with Quantitative Tokens

The authors describe an algorithm for conversion of colored Petri nets with qualitative tokens into a colored Petri net with quantitative tokens preserving boundedness, mutual exclusion, and liveness properties. This conversion allows the invariance method to be applied to colored Petri nets, which uses the Truncated Set of Solutions finding algorithm for Petri net state equations expressed through systems of linear homogenous Diophantine equations. To show the algorithm’s efficiency, it is applied to the colored Petri net that models the operation of a grid system. Equivalence of net models is tested by constructing and analyzing equal finite-state machine.     

Verification of computing grids with special edge conditions by infinite Petri nets

A technique of the computing grids verification using invariants of infinite Petri nets was presented. Models of square grid structures in the form of parametric Petri nets for such edge conditions as connection of edges and truncated devices were constructed. Infinite systems of linear algebraic equations were composed on parametric Petri nets for calculating p-invariants; their parametric solutions were obtained. P-invariant Petri nets are structurally conservative and bounded that together with liveness are the properties of ideal systems. Liveness investigation based on siphons and traps can be implemented using p-invariants of modified nets.     

Timing and liveness in continuous Petri nets

Fluidification constitutes a relaxation technique for studying discrete event systems through fluidified approximated models, thus avoiding the state explosion problem. Moreover, the class of continuous models thus obtained may be interesting in itself. In Petri nets, fluidification leads to the so-called continuous Petri nets, which are technically hybrid models. Under infinite server semantics, timing a continuous Petri net model preserves the liveness property, but the converse is not necessarily true, and if the autonomous net model is not live, the timing may transform it into a live model. In this paper, we investigate the conditions on the firing rates of timed continuous models that make a given continuous system live.     

T-网的活性分析及其判断算法

Petri网的活性反映了实际系统的元死锁性.本文讨论了一类结构简单的Petri网-T-网的活性问题,给出了各类T-网的活性判定定理并给出了判定算法.算法主要计算工作是变迁的前序库所集和后继变迁集以及回路的判断,这三个过程实际上是一个树的搜索过程,因此算法易于实现,判定效率也大大提高.     

基于Petri网语言的并发系统性质研究

给出Petri网弱活性（无死锁）与活性的两个语言刻画,讨论了同步合成Petri网的语言性质,基于Petri网语言,给出了判定Petri网活性的充分必要条件。同时研究了Petri网同步合成过程中活性保持问题,给出保持活性的充分必要条件。这些结果为讨论网的活性测试和控制提供了形式语言的方法。     

离散制造装配系统的活性控制1)

首次研究离散制造装配系统的活性控制问题.建立了系统的工件加工过程Petri网模型.通过对系统Petri网模型的结构分析,提出了导致系统死锁的两类元素结构及活性特征.对一类离散制造装配系统提出了避免死锁的Petri网控制器,这类控制器容易实现,对系统的限制小,而且使得受控系统仍具Petri网模型.对一般离散制造装配系统提出了保证系统活性的控制策略.     

基于库所指标分解的Petri网活性与公平性分析

Petri网的分解技术是用于复杂网系统分析的一种有效手段．基于库所指标的Petri网分解方法，将一个复杂的网系统分解成结构简单的子网，分解后的子网保持原网系统的语言行为不变当且仅当具有公共变迁的子网的可达图关于公共变迁是同构的．若分解过程中保持系统的语言行为不变，则在Petri网的活性和公平性方面有着对应关系．本文基于分解给出了Petri网活性判定的充要条件和公平性判定的定理，对基于分解的复杂系统的Petri网分析方法提供了更为有效的理论和可行的技术．     

On systematic methods to remove redundant monitors from liveness-enforcing net supervisors

Petri nets based deadlock prevention for flexible manufacturing systems has received much attention over the past decade, primarily due to the seminal work of Ezpeleta et al. in 1995. A Petri net based deadlock prevention mechanism is usually implemented by adding monitors or control places to a plant Petri net model such that liveness can be enforced. The significance of this methodology lies in that both a plant model and its supervisor are in a same formalism-Petri nets. Due to the inherent complexity of Petri nets, in theory, the number of additional monitors that have to been added to achieve liveness-enforcement purpose for an uncontrolled plant model is exponential with respect to the size of the model. This paper first proposes a systematic method to minimize the number of additional monitors in a liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor such that the resultant net system has the same permissive behavior while liveness can still be preserved. Furthermore, for the liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisors of flexible manufacturing systems, which have some particular property, an algorithm is developed such that more permissive liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisors can be obtained after liveness-restrictive monitor removal. Compared with the existing techniques of eliminating redundant monitors in the literature, the complete state enumeration of a supervisor is avoided, which implies the high computational efficiency of the methods in this paper. Flexible manufacturing examples are used to demonstrate the proposed approaches.     

POC net,a subclass of Petri nets,and its application to timed Petri nets

Liveness is one of the most important properties of the Petri net analysis. This property is concerned with a capability for firing of transitions. On the other hand, place-liveness is another notion related to liveness, which is concerned with a capability for having tokens in places. Concerning these liveness and place-liveness problems, this paper suggests a new subclass of Petri net, ‘POC nets’, as a superclass of AC nets and DC nets. For this subclass, the equivalence between liveness and place-liveness is shown and a sufficient condition for liveness for this POC net is derived. Then the results are extended to liveness problem of timed Petri nets which have transitions with finite firing durations and the earliest firing rule. Although liveness of a (non-timed) Petri net is neither necessary nor sufficient condition for liveness of a timed Petri net, it is shown that liveness is preserved if the net has POC structure. Furthermore, it is pointed out that if a POC net satisfies some additional condition, Petri net liveness is equivalent to timed Petri net liveness. Finally, it is shown that liveness of timed POC nets with TC structure and the earliest firing rule is decidable with deterministic polynomial time complexity.     

Optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors for automated manufacturing systems

Deadlock avoidance problems are investigated for automated manufacturing systems with flexible routings. Based on the Petri net models of the systems, this paper proposes, for the first time, the concept of perfect maximal resourcetransition circuits and their saturated states. The concept facilities the development of system liveness characterization and deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors. Deadlock is characterized as some perfect maximal resource-transition circuits reach their saturated states. For a large class of manufacturing systems, which do not contain center resources, the optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors are presented. For an general manufacturing system, a method is proposed for reducing the system Petri net model so that the reduced model does not contain center resources and, hence, has optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisor. The controlled reduced Petri net model can then be used as the liveness supervisor of the system.     

Optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors for automated manufacturing systems

Deadlock avoidance problems are investigated for automated manufacturing systems with flexible routings. Based on the Petri net models of the systems, this paper proposes, for the first time, the concept of perfect maximal resource-transition circuits and their saturated states. The concept facilitates the development of system liveness characterization and deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors. Deadlock is characterized as some perfect maximal resource-transition circuits reaching their saturated states. For a large class of manufacturing systems, which do not contain center resources, the optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisors are presented. For a general manufacturing system, a method is proposed for reducing the system Petri net model so that the reduced model does not contain center resources and, hence, has optimal deadlock avoidance Petri net supervisor. The controlled reduced Petri net model can then be used as the liveness supervisor of the system.     

Automatic construction of systems of distributed components from nested Petri nets models

Multi-level multi-agent systems (MASs) with dynamic structure are widely used in solving important applied problems in telecommunication, transportation, social, and other systems. Therefore, ensuring correct behavior of such systems is an actual and important task. One of the most error-prone stages of system development in the framework of model-oriented approach is the implementation stage, in the course of which a program code is constructed based on the model developed. This paper presents an algorithm for automated translation of MAS models represented as nested Petri nets into systems of distributed components. Nested Petri nets are the extension of Petri nets in the framework of the nets-within-nets approach, which assumes that tokens in a Petri net may themselves be Petri nets, possess autonomous behavior, and interact with other tokens of the net. This makes it possible to model MASs with dynamic structure in a natural way. The translation presented in this paper preserves distribution level and important behavioral properties (safety, liveness, and conditional liveness) of the original model and ensures fairness of the target system execution. The use of such translation makes it possible to automate construction of distributed MASs by models of nested Petri nets. As a test example, translation of nested Petri nets into systems of distributed components was implemented on the basis of the EJB component technology.     

A Petri net synthesis theory for modeling flexible manufacturingsystems

A theory that synthesizes Petri nets for modeling flexible manufacturing systems is presented. The theory adopts a bottom-up or modular-composition approach to construct net models. Each module is modeled as a resource control net (RCN), which represents a subsystem that controls a resource type in a flexible manufacturing system. Interactions among the modules are described as the common transition and transition subnets. The net obtained by merging the modules with two minimal restrictions is shown to be conservative and thus bounded. An algorithm is developed to detect two sufficient conditions for structural liveness of the net. The algorithm examines only the net's structure and the initial marking, and appears to be more efficient than state enumeration techniques such as the reachability tree method. In this paper, the sufficient conditions for liveness are shown to be related to some structural objects called siphons. To demonstrate the applicability of the theory, a flexible manufacturing system of a moderate size is modeled and analyzed using the proposed theory.     

Petri网共享T型子网合成结构性质分析及其应用

为了解决系统设计中的子系统共享问题，提出了经由Petri网共享T-型子网构成共享T-型子网合成网的解决方案；研究了共享T-型子网合成网的结构性质，提出了共享T-型子网合成网保持结构有界性、守恒性、可重复性、相容性、P-不变量、T-不变量、公平性和结构活性的充分条件或充要条件；特别在证明结构活性保持性的过程中，体现了Petri网层次化的描述方法。本文的结果可为Petri网系统合成性质的考察提供有效途径，为复杂大系统的分析提供重要手段，并特别适合于一类系统的设计和分析，具有一定的实用价值。     

T-组合Petri网的活性和公平性分析

同步合成是研究复杂Ｐｅｔｒｉ网系统性质的有效途径．文中通过引入可引发变迁序偶的概念,研究了Ｔ－组合（同步合成）Ｐｅｔｒｉ网对子网的活性和公平性继承关系,给出了一组Ｔ－组合Ｐｅｔｒｉ网活或公平的充要条件和充分条件．这些结果对网组合同步设计具有重要的指导意义     

Petri网极小虹吸的计算方法与性能分析

虹吸是Petri网的一种重要结构,可以用来分析所模拟系统的许多重要特性,如可达性、可逆性和活性等.文中首先提出了虹吸子网的概念,并给出了将Petri网划分成虹吸子网的多项式算法,进而给出其性能分析.通过求解虹吸子网的极小虹吸得到原Petri网的所有极小虹吸.而对于每个虹吸子网,首先求解它的一个极小虹吸,并根据此极小虹吸对子网进行分解,将分解得到的子网做类似原网的处理过程,直到每个子网的位置集就是一个极小虹吸或不包含任何极小虹吸为止.性能分析及实验表明,所构造的求解Petri网所有极小虹吸的算法是一个有效的算法.     

同步合成Petri网系统活性与无死锁性的保持性

合成操作是Petri网系统建模中一种重要的自底向上建模方法,而在Petri网系统的合成研究中,一些好性质,如活性、无死锁性、可回复性等的保持性,是一个重要的研究问题.研究了Petri网系统同步合成操作活性与无死锁性的保持性.与以往研究工作不同,基于路径的并发合成用并发语言的方法,提出并证明了同步合成Petri网系统的一个并发语言关系式.该语言关系式可用于判定同步合成Petri网系统的活性与无死锁性,同时给出了同步合成Petri网系统活性与无死锁性的充要条件.最后提出一些条件,在这些条件下,同步合成Petri网系统有活与无死锁的保持性质.     

Petri网共享单链子网合成及其应用研究

本文针对多个企业共用一个加工厂加工某种产品这一类业务处理问题,提出了经由Petri网共享单链子网构成单链子网合成网的解决方案;给出了自由选择网（FC）,非对称选择网（AC）的共享单链子网合成网为各自相应网的充分条件;提出了共享单链子网合成Petri网保持结构活性的条件;本文的结果可为Petri网系统合成的静态和动态性质的考察提供有效途径,具有宽广的应用前景.     

离散制造装配系统的活性控制

首次研究离散制造装配系统的活性控制问题.建立了系统的工件加工过程Petri网 模型.通过对系统Petri网模型的结构分析,提出了导致系统死锁的两类元素结构及活性特 征.对一类离散制造装配系统提出了避免死锁的Petri网控制器,这类控制器容易实现,对系 统的限制小,而且使得受控系统仍具Petri网模型.对一般离散制造装配系统提出了保证系统 活性的控制策略.     

Verification of hypercube communication structures via parametric Petri nets<Superscript>1</Superscript>

A model of a hypercube communication structure of arbitrary size with an arbitrary number of dimensions is constructed in the form of a parametric Petri net. A technique for calculating linear invariants of parametric Petri nets is developed that allows one to analyze information transmission processes in such a hypercube. The structure of complicated deadlocks caused by a path (loop) of blockings and the isolation of devices is investigated. In real-life networks, the described deadlocks lead to a considerable decrease in performance and can be induced by some ill-intentioned traffic.