In this work we introduce a new formal model for software components supporting behavioral interpretability based on temporal logic, Petri nets, model checking, and an assume–guarantee strategy to specify and reason about the composition of concurrent component systems. The formal specification and verification strategies, methods, and techniques presented in this work contribute to the develop...

Petri nets structural techniques may be used not only to study interesting system properties, but also to manage state space explosion and discrete-event simulation complexity. In order to avoid net unfolding, a symbolic calculus for high level PN structural analysis is needed, directly working on net annotations. Colored Petri Nets structural analysis relies upon a common subset of functional ...

Case handling is a new paradigm for supporting flexible and knowledge intensive business processes. It is strongly based on data as the typical product of these processes. Unlike workflow management, which uses predefined process control structures to determine what should be done during a workflow process, case handling focuses on what can be done to achieve a business goal. While classical Pe...

This paper describes a methodology for converting an influence net to an executable model, implemented using the Colored Petri Net formalism and tools, so that it can be used to assess the impact of a set of controllable events or actions on outcomes of interest; specifically the impact of various sequences and timing of those actionable events. With this methodology, alternative courses of act...

This paper describes a methodology for converting an influence net to an executable model, implemented using the Colored Petri Net formalism and tools, so that it can be used to assess the impact of a set of controllable events or actions on outcomes of interest; specifically the impact of various sequences and timing of those actionable events. With this methodology, alternative courses of act...

Petri Nets (PNs) and their variations are a graphical, mathematical language that can be used for the specification, analysis and verification of discrete event systems, including Critical Infrastructures (CIs). Colored PNs are an extension of classical PNs that are suitable for modeling and analyzing complex interconnected CIs. Timed PNs are another extension of PNs that support timing constra...

Resources are defined as submultisets of Petri net markings. Two resources are called similar if replacing one of them by another in any marking doesn’t change the Petri net’s behavior. We define the relations of resource similarity and resource bisimulation and show that they are finitely based. In this paper the resource bisimulation is studied for different classes of Petri nets: ordinary Pe...