Title
Variable Petri Nets for Mobility
Abstract
Mobile computing systems, service-based systems, and some other systems with mobile interacting components have recently received much attention. However, because of their characteristics, such as mobility and disconnection, it is difficult to model and analyze them by using a structure-fixed model. This work proposes a new Petri net model called variable Petri net (VPN) for modeling and analyzing these systems. The definition, firing rule, and related analysis technology of VPN are introduced in detail. In a VPN, the possible interaction interfaces are abstracted as a new kind of places called virtual places, and the occurrences of (dis)connections are described by new functions, which makes it appropriate to describe the component collaboration in systems and realize the scalability and pluggability of systems. Moreover, to overcome the shortcoming that markings cannot reflect the link capability of a system, VPNs add a constraint function along with a marking to represent a complete system configuration. Several examples are used to demonstrate the newly proposed model and method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TSMC.2021.3103072
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Business process,discrete event systems,dynamic interaction,formal model,Petri nets (PNs),vehicular cyber–physical system (VCPS)
Journal
52
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
2168-2216
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
31
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ding Zhijun1113.29
Ru Yang252.41
Puwen Cui300.34
MengChu Zhou48989534.94
Changjun Jiang51350117.57