Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems
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Springer, July 2009
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Authors
| Kurt Jensen | Lars Michael Kristensen |
|---|---|
| Department of Computer Science | Department of Computing |
| Aarhus University, Denmark | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
Introduction
Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPNs) is a language for modelling and validation of concurrent and distributed systems and other systems in which concurrency, synchronisation, and communication plays a major role. The CPN textbook introduces the constructs of the CPN modelling language and explains how CPN models facilitate simulation, state space analysis, behavioural visualisation, and simulation-based performance analysis. It provides a comprehensive road map to the practical use of CP-nets including a presentation of selected industrial case studies illustrating the use of CPN modelling and validation for design, specification, simulation, and verification in a variety of application domains.
Book resources
This website contains supplementary material for the textbook, including slides sets, CPN models, and suggestions for smaller projects.
- Selected chapters of the book are available for free
- Preface
- Table of Content
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Non-hierarchical CPNs
- Chapter 15: Teaching CPNs
- CPN models for the individual chapters
- Slides for the individual chapters
- Projects putting CPNs into practical use
CPN Course
Material for the course on Coloured Petri Nets developed for the Petri Nets Course of the annual Petri Nets conferences are available from here: https://github.com/lmkr/cpncourse/blob/master/README.md
Software tool support
The CPN modelling language is supported by the computer tool CPN Tools
CPN Tools is available free of charge.