Allgemeine Konzepte zur software-technischen Unterstützung verschiedener Petrinetz-Typen

Petri nets are widely used for modelling systems. The different areas and goals require different types of Petri nets. Each Petri net contains beside places, transitions, and arcs several further specific elements. Furthermore, a Petri net type defines a specific firing rule. There are many different Petri net types. It is not easy to have a general view on this bulk of Petri net types. Thus, there are attempts to establish general Petri net types or classifications of Petri net types (even of particular aspects). But, current approaches include only a few of all Petri net types. Our approach is a classification by semantics of Petri nets. We call this classification Petri Net Hypercube. It is meant to be universal for all Petri net types. A syntactical classification approach is the base of the Petri Net Hypercube. This approach leads on the one hand to the proposal of the Petri Net Markup Language. This language describes Petri nets of all types. On the other hand, the same approach leads to a base of Petri net tools. The parts of a Petri net type are implemented in this base independently of each other. The Petri Net Kernel is such a base for building Petri net tools. It implements those concepts which are general concepts of each Petri net. The Petri Net Kernel forms together with the Petri Net Hypercube a further basic Petri net tool for a parameterized Petri net type with a parameterized firing rule. The Petri Net Markup Language and the Petri Net Kernel are the main contributions of this thesis. Together, they are a powerful base for Petri net tools of each Petri net type.