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On Hybrid Petri Nets

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Petrinets (PNs) are widely used to model discrete event dynamic systems(computer systems, manufacturing systems, communication systems,etc). Continuous Petri nets (in which the markings are real numbersand the transition firings are continuous) were defined morerecently; such a PN may model a continuous system or approximatea discrete system. A hybrid Petri net can be obtained if onepart is discrete and another part is continuous. This paper isbasically a survey of the work of the authors' team on hybridPNs (definition, properties, modeling). In addition, it containsnew material such as the definition of extended hybrid PNs andseveral applications, explanations and comments about the timingsin Petri nets, more on the conflict resolution in hybrid PNs,and connection between hybrid PNs and hybrid automata. The paperis illustrated by many examples.

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David, R., Alla, H. On Hybrid Petri Nets. Discrete Event Dynamic Systems 11, 9–40 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008330914786

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