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Petri nets have become a wide-spread method to model the behaviour of computing systems. One drawback of standard Petri nets however is the absence of constructs for the notion of time and conflict-probabilties. Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets (GSPNs) have been developed to deal with these constructs.
The program TOMSPIN (Tool for Modelling with Stochastic Petri Nets) supports the full descriptive power of GSPNs. It has been developed to model and to evaluate complex computing systems, such as multiprocessor machines and communicaton systems. In this paper, the structure of TOMSPIN is pointed out, and some examples for its usage in commercial environment are given.
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Thurner, E.M., Wincheringer, C. (1996). TOMSPIN — a tool for modelling with stochastic petri nets. In: Pichler, F., Díaz, R.M., Albrecht, R. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST '95. EUROCAST 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1030. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034767
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