"We think that this volume should greatly help any designer to build the new forthcoming generation of distributed systems." (Mathematical Reviews, 2011)
Preface xv
Introduction xvii
PART 1. FUNDAMENTAL MODELS 1
Chapter 1. Basic Semantics 3 Michel DIAZ
Chapter 2. Application of Petri Nets to Communication Protocols 27 Michel DIAZ
Chapter 3. Analysis Methods for Petri 41 Serge HADDAD and François VERNADAT
Chapter 4. Decidability and Complexity of Petri Net Problems 87 Serge HADDAD
Chapter 5. Time Petri Nets 123 Bernard BERTHOMIEU, Marc BOYER and Michel DIAZ
Chapter 6. Temporal Composition and Time Stream Petri Nets 163 Michel DIAZ and Patrick SÉNAC
Chapter 7. High Level Petri Nets 185 Claude GIRAULT and Jean–François PRADAT–PEYRE
Chapter 8. Analysis of High Level Petri Nets 221 Claude GIRAULT and Jean–François PRADAT–PEYRE
Chapter 9. Stochastic Petri Nets 269 Serge HADDAD and Patrice MOREAUX
Chapter 10. Stochastic Well–formed Petri Nets 303 Serge HADDAD and Patrice MOREAUX
Chapter 11. Tensor Methods and Stochastic Petri Nets 321 Serge HADDAD and Patrice MOREAUX
PART 2. VERIFICATION AND APPLICATION OF PETRI NETS 347
Chapter 12. Verification of Specific Properties 349 Serge HADDAD and François VERNADAT
Chapter 13. Petri Net Unfoldings Properties 415 Jean–Michel COUVREUR and Denis POITRENAUD
Chapter 14. Symmetry and Temporal Logic 435 Serge HADDAD and Jean–Michel ILIÉ
Chapter 15. Hierarchical Time Stream Petri Nets 461 Patrick SÉNAC and Michel DIAZ
Chapter 16. Petri Nets and Linear Logic 481 Brigitte PRADIN, Robert VALETTE and Nicolas RIVIÈRE
Chapter 17. Modeling of Multimedia Architectures: the Case of Videoconferencing with Guaranteed Quality of Service 501 Philippe OWEZARSKI and Marc BOYER
Chapter 18 Performance Evaluation in Manufacturing Systems 527 Isabel DEMONGODIN, Nathalie SAUER and Laurent TRUFFET
Conclusion 577
List of Authors 579
Index 581
Michel Diaz is director of research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France and leads the critical computer systems research department at LAAS–CNRS, Toulouse.