Cpn tools timed petri nets

We strongly recommend using Eclipse. Plug-in Overview You will not need all plug-ins for normal operation. Here is […]. The tool allows teachers to create a generic base model with an interface intended to be filled out by students.

Students fill in the missing parts and this can be tested against a formal specification and other formal requirements and assigned scores based on a configuration set up by the teacher.

This is a list of off-site tutorials on getting started with new features in CPN Tools 4. CPN Tools. CPN Tools A tool for editing, simulating, and analyzing Colored Petri nets The tool features incremental syntax checking and code generation, which take place while a net is being constructed. New Features in Version 4. Simulated time has nothing to do with the external time during which the simulator steps through net execution and observers possibly watch the execution process, or with the numbered sequence of steps by which the simulator executes a net.

Simulated time is just an incrementable number that is globally available within an executing model. The value of this number can be thought of as the time indicated by a simulated clock. When the number is incremented, the clock moves forward to a later time. The units of simulated time do not inherently represent any particular absolute time unit. We may interpret simulated time units as microseconds or millennia, depending on what we are modeling, but syntactically time is just a number.

For brevity, simulated time is sometimes referred to as model time. The state of a net changes only when enabled transitions fire. In order for simulated time to affect net execution, it must affect transition enabledness and firing.

Such a token is ignored when transitions are checked for enablement: the token might as well not be there at all. When the clock reaches that time, the token suddenly springs into existence, so to speak, becomes a factor in determining enablement, and can be removed from a place when transitions occur. Simulated time could tick forward continually, as real time does, but that would be a very inefficient way to do things: the clock would frequently waste real time counting off intervals of simulated time during which the model remains unchanged.

Such counting would accomplish nothing. It is more efficient in such a case to jump the simulated clock immediately to the next time when some change is possible, and proceed with executing the net. Therefore the simulated clock does not move at a steady rate. Instead it remains at its current value as long as there are any enabled transitions. When there are no enabled transitions left, the clock jumps forward by the smallest amount necessary for at least one transition to become enabled.

This implies that time will never move forward in a net that always has enabled transitions independently of time. Simulated time passes when and only when the clock is incremented. Everything that happens while the clock remains at a particular setting is both simultaneous and instantaneous in simulated time. This is convenient when a system contains an event that happens at a particular moment, but that is sufficiently complex that modeling it by firing a sequence of simple transitions, rather than one complex transition, is most convenient.