Petri nets were invented by Carl Adam Petri to model concurrent systems and the network protocols used with these systems. The Petri net is a directed bipartite graph with nodes representing either "places" (represented by circles) or "transitions" (represented by rectangles). When all the places with arcs to a transition (its input places) have a token, the transition "fires", removing a token from each input place and adding a token to each place pointed to by the transition (its output places).
a bipartite graph composed of two classes of nodes called places and transitions , normally associated with systems conditions for occurrence of events and actual occurrence of the events, respectively
a directed bipartite graph whose two www
a graphical and mathematical modeling tool
a graphical model of a system or algorithm
a mathematical model of a parallel system, capable of representing causality between events
a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems
a model to specify and analyse systems, flop
an alternative model to the timed automata
an automaton that is generally portrayed as a graph connecting each transition with its input and output places
a net of nodes where tokens travel from node to node obeying certain rules
a specific instance of the general place transition net, which describes the place and transition net syntax that is common to many forms of concurrent computation model
Business processes can be represented as Petri Nets in the COSA Process Designer. This representation type is based on the rather mathematical Petri Net theory. Petri nets are represented as directed graphs. A directed graph consists of nodes that are connected by arrows (transitions that have a direction). During execution, a token moves from one state to another and controls the execution state. Business processes can also be designed as object-oriented business process diagrams.
A Petri net (also known as a place/transition net or P/T net) is one of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems. As a modeling language, it graphically depicts the structure of a distributed system as a directed bipartite graph with annotations. As such, a Petri net has place nodes, transition nodes, and directed arcs connecting places with transitions.
