Complete Overview of Petri Nets Tools Database

ALPHA/Sim

Overview

Entry last updated: 2002/5/3
Entry last validated: 2002/5/3

Tool homepage: http://www.alphatech.com/secondary/techpro/alphasim/alphasim.html

Tool availability: Commercial

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ALPHA/Sim is a general-purpose, graphical, discrete-event simulation tool based on Petri nets. ALPHA/Sim allows the user to graphically build a Petri net model, enter input data (timing delays, routing rules, initial token populations, and other data) via integrated forms, execute the Petri net simulation model, and view the simulation results. The class of Petri nets modeled are stochastic, timed, attributed or colored Petri nets.

Models can be built hierarchically, from the bottom up or the top down. Models can be built without seeing or writing a single line of code. ALPHA/Sim models can also be linked to external code; this code may be written in any language that can be compiled on the host platform. ALPHA/Sim automatically collects statistics on place populations, delays, transition firing rates, and attributes. ALPHA/Sim has been used in a wide number of applications including military command and control, computer hardware systems, manufacturing systems, and queueing systems.

Contact Information

Alan B. Evans, Bradford E. Rigby
ALPHATECH, Inc.
50 Mall Road
Burlington, MA  01803-4562
USA

Phone:  +1 781 273 3388
Fax:    +1 781 273 9345
E-mail: alpha.sim@alphatech.com

Other Remarks

Implementing a Petri net model in ALPHA/Sim involves the following steps:

ARP

Overview

Entry last updated: 2008/11/14
Entry last validated: 2008/11/14

Tool homepage: http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~maziero/doku.php/software:arp_tool

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ARP stands for "Analisador de Redes de Petri", the portuguese translation for Petri Net Analyser. It's a tool for PN analysis and simulation written in Turbo Pascal 6 for MS-DOS.

It accepts the following Petri net models:

It offers the following analysis modules:

Contact Information

Prof. Carlos Maziero, Dr.
Graduate Program in Computer Science
Catholic University of Parana
Rua Imaculada Conceicao, 1155
Curitiba PR 80.215-901
Brazil

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: maziero@ppgia.pucpr.br

Other Remarks

Full Pascal source files are available under the GNU GPL License in the tool website.

Artifex

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/3/11
Entry last validated: 2002/5/8

Tool homepage: http://www.rsoftdesign.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Artifex is a powerful modeling and simulation environment supporting the design of discrete event systems. Artifex has an intuitive graphical language that visually describes the system dynamic behavior, supported by a comprehensive design environment for both discrete event simulation and real time software development.

Artifex is ideal for the design and simulation of:

and for exploration and validation of a wide variety of schemes for buffering, packet classification, congestion control, protection and restoration, scheduling algorithms and policies, ASIC architectures, optical networks and more.

Contact Information

RSoft Design Group, Inc.
200 Executive Blvd.
Ossining, NY 10510
USA

Phone:  +1 (914) 923-2164
Fax:    +1 (914) 923-2169
E-mail: info@rsoftdesign.com

Other Remarks

Artifex modeling and simulation environment supports all four key activities of the iterative model development cycle:

-- Model
Express complex system architectures by drawing and connecting components to define message-flows. Visually describe the dynamic behavior of each component with a high-level Petri Net language that allows inclusion of C or C++ data definitions and algorithms. Radical improvements and changes to models can be made quickly and on a safe ground at each modeling step.

-- Validate
Control full system behavior, by checking the multi-window visual animation of the model and steering the simulation with conditional breakpoints and step-by-step execution. Sample data for further analysis or inspect and modify it to test alternative scenarios. Unveil logical flaws and eliminate system hidden pitfalls.

-- Measure
Review simulation results to get quantitative information on system behavior and to assess its performance. Represent pre-calculated or user-defined custom metrics thus allowing great flexibility. Export recorded data for external tool analysis. Perform coverage analysis to ensure the test has been exhaustive.

-- Report
Add comments anywhere in the model/design. Generate automatic on-line HTML documentation to check system behavior, to track changes and to provide consistent report updates throughout the whole design process. Facilitate knowledge flow and exchange, as well as design maintenance, thanks to an intuitive understanding of the system behavior.

Artifex offers 2 additional tools that enable system designers to generate stand-alone software and handle complex data structures:

-- Deploy
Implement simulators, stand-alone or multi-process distributed applications. Map objects on one or more processes and generate software without any additional effort. Manage automatic inter-process communication. Use local IPC mechanisms to communicate with local processes through TCP, UPD or DCOM. Customize communication layers to generate code compliant with specific requirements like Corba or other IPC protocols.

-- Data
Describe complex data structures of the system and their relationships with Entity-Relationship diagrams. Perform attribute definition in C or C++ to fully exploit the easy and powerful high-level query language, allowing dynamic data manipulation in any part of the model.

CoopnBuilder

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/17
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://cui.unige.ch/smv/CoopnTools/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

CoopnBuilder is an environment composed of a set of tools destinated to the support of concurrent software development based on the CO-OPN language. CO-OPN is an object-oriented specification language based on synchronized algebraic Petri nets. This language allows the definition of active concurrent objects, and includes facilities for sub-typing, sub-classing and genericity. A coordination language is included in CO-OPN that permits the definition of the various sub-components defining the system under development. 

Contact Information

Computer Science Department
Software Modelling and Verification Laboratory
University of Geneva
24, rue du Général-Dufour
CH-1211 Genève 4
Switzerland

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: didier.buchs@cui.unige.ch

Other Remarks

COSA BPM

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/7/21
Entry last validated: 2004/7/21

Tool homepage: http://eng.cosa.de

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

COSA BPM is a suite covering the design, documentation, analysis, execution and monitoring of business processes. The engine is based on high level, time coloured petri-nets but besides structured processes also fit for semi-structured and ad-hoc processes.

COSA is used in many commercial and public organisations and also includes a Document Management and a Records Management module.

Contact Information

Sybrand Jongejans
COSA BV
Havenweg 24
4131 NM Vianen
The Netherlands

Phone:  +31 347 324 624
Fax:    +31 347 324 634
E-mail: info@cosa.nl

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CPN-AMI

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/10/24
Entry last validated: 2007/10/24

Tool homepage: http://www.lip6.fr/cpn-ami

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

CPN-AMI 3.2 is the Petri net based Software engineering environment designed at the "Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6" (LIP6), Université Pierre & Marie Curie, France. CPN-AMI is built on top of FrameKit: a generic platform for the implementation of software engineering environments.

The last version runs on PC/Linux (mandrake or redhat) and now also on Mac/MacOS (version 10.4.x or later). It requires a Macintosh for the user interface. The Petri net dialect in CPN-AMI is AMI-Net (Well Formed Colored Petri nets with syntactic constraints). CPN-AMI proposes about 60 services dedicated to the modelling and verification of systems by means of Petri nets:

To get CPN-AMI, please click here. CPN-AMI is free of charges for university and non profit organizations. For more administrative information on CPN-AMI, please contact cpn-ami[at]lip6.fr.

Contact Information

Fabrice Kordon
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05
France

Phone:  +33 1 44 27 61 89
Fax:    +33 1 44 27 74 05
E-mail: cpn-ami@lip6.fr

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CPN Tools

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/4/25
Entry last validated: 2006/4/25

Tool homepage: http://www.daimi.au.dk/CPNTools/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

CPN Tools is a widespread tool for editing, simulating and analysing Coloured Petri Nets. The GUI of CPN Tools was designed in cooperation with leading HCI experts and is based on advanced interaction techniques. Feedback facilities provide contextual error messages and indicate dependency relationships between net elements. The tool features incremental syntax checking and code generation which take place while a net is being constructed. A fast simulator efficiently handles both untimed and timed nets. Full and partial state spaces can be generated and analysed, and a standard state space report contains information such as boundedness properties and liveness properties. By means of a simple query language it is possible to specify and check system-specific properties. The tool also provides support for simulation-based performance analysis.

CPN Tools has replaced the Design/CPN tool. Models can be transferred from Design/CPN to CPN Tools by means of an XML-based text format. The format resembles the upcoming standardized exchange format for (high-level) Petri Nets, and when the standard reaches a more stable state, support for this exchange format is planned.

Contact Information

Kurt Jensen
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus
IT-parken, Aabogade 34
DK-8200 Aarhus N
Denmark

Phone:  +45 8942 5612
Fax:    +45 8942 5601
E-mail: CPNTools-support@daimi.au.dk

Other Remarks

The development of CPN Tools started in 1999 and will continue over the next years. A total effort of approximately five man-years per year are invested in the tool.

The development has been supported by the Danish National Centre for IT-Research, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia Research Center, Microsoft Research Limited, and George Mason University.

ExSpect

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/18

Tool homepage: http://www.exspect.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ExSpect is a powerful business tool giving organizations the ability to model, monitor and analyze business processes effectively and efficiently.

By tracking work loads and flows of money and goods you can use ExSpect to determine the service level of your organization. ExSpect offers the potential for every conceivable kind of simulation and so helps you reach decisions on cost reductions and large-scale infrastructure investment programme's.

ExSpect has a full-graphic user-interface and a sound formal basis, developed in close cooperation with Eindhoven University of Technology, since 1980. ExSpect users are able to build executable models with ease and speed. Changing developed models is an even simpler matter, since a library of building blocks is automatically generated during development. An advantage of ExSpect is that it is possible to use application libraries specifically prepared for particular fields. Libraries are available for workflow, logistics, administrative processes and more specific business situations.

Bakkenist ExSpect offers you a complete helpdesk where your questions are answered. A total service package, including various standard and specially tailored courses plus a workshop are available. Where desired, staff from Bakkenist ExSpect can assist you in developing your business applications.

Contact Information

Deloitte & Touche
The Netherlands
ATTN: P.J.N. de Crom

Phone:  +31 20 4547500
Fax:    +31 20 4547555
E-mail: exspect@deloitte.nl

Other Remarks

Members of department of Mathematics and Computing Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology participate in the development of ExSpect.

FLOWer

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/6/3
Entry last validated: 2004/6/3

Tool homepage: http://www.pallas-athena.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

FLOWer is a sophisticated Case handling / workflow management system. It is data driven and very flexible in handling exceptions. FLOWer offers direct support for most workflow patterns and indirect support for the other patterns. Distribution and work allocation is strictly seperated from the process flow, thus enabling real-time changes in distribution an dtask assignment, without the need to change the petrinet process flow.

FLOWer includes a form editor, database mapping, pre- and post conditions, transition based triggers and skip- en redo functions, including redo compensation.

Contact Information

John Hoogland
Pallas Athena 
Piet Joubertstraat 4
7300 AS Apeldoorn
PO box 747
730 AS Apeldoorn
Netherlands

Phone:  +31-55-3685300
Fax:    +31-55-3685311
E-mail: john.hoogland@pallas-athena.com

Other Remarks

F-net

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/18
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.fi.ru/os/petri.php3

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

F-nets is new Petri Nets based research method that intended to simulate computer systems and computer complexes operation. F-nets also can simulate other parallel processing discrete systems.

Petri Nets simulation software "Petri Nets for Windows" based on F-nets. It also can operate with standart (classic) Petri Nets, timed Petri Nets or E-nets.

"Petri Nets for Windows" software ensures:

"Petri Nets for Windows" software can contains the next components:
  1. F-nets simulation programm with help system (how to use this software);
  2. Petri Nets and F-nets theory help system with nets examples and some teaching tools;
  3. Simple model libraries with libraries help systems and descriptions.

Contact Information

Molchanov Alexey
Fort-Inform Ltd.
27 (building 12B), Engelsa st., St.Petersburg, Russia
or
Molchanov Alexey
St.-Petersburg State Academy of Aerospace
Instrument Making
B.Morskaya, 67, 190000 St.Petersburg, Russia

Phone:  +7 (812) 326-3831
Fax:    +7 (812) 326-3831 or +7 (812) 554-0387 
E-mail: mill@fi.ru

Other Remarks

The price of this software is depended of using software components configuration. F-nets simulation programm and software libraries is the only one component that required to use this software without fail. This is the minimal configuration. All other software components are optional. Full software configuration includes all components.

GDToolkit

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~gdt/

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

GDToolkit is a software library for automatic layout (automatic graph drawing). It can draw several types of diagrams, including Petri Nets.

Contact Information

GDToolkit team
Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione
Universita' di Roma Tre
via della Vasca Navale 79
00146 ROMA - ITALY

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: gdt@dia.uniroma3.it

Other Remarks

Geist3D

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/5/16
Entry last validated: 2006/5/16

Tool homepage: http://www.geist3d.org

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Geist3D is a real-time 3D graphics engine complete with an integrated development environment. It supports a combination of Python scripts and Petri Nets as programming language for virtual environments. All the features of Geist3D include:

Contact Information

www.geist3d.org

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: jstier@geist3d.org

Other Remarks

GreatSPN

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/8
Entry last validated: 2004/5/25

Tool homepage: http://www.di.unito.it/~greatspn/

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

GreatSPN is a software package for the modeling, validation, and performance evaluation of distributed systems using Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets and their colored extension: Stochastic Well-formed Nets. The tool provides a friendly framework to experiment with timed Petri net based modeling techniques. It implements efficient analysis algorithms to allow its use on rather complex applications, not only toy examples.

Contact Information

Giuliana Franceschinis
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino
Italy

Phone:  +39 011 6706710
Fax:    +39 011 751603
E-mail: greatspn@di.unito.it

Other Remarks

Download a license agreement from the tool home page.

Helena

Overview

Entry last updated: 2005/7/28
Entry last validated: 2005/7/28

Tool homepage: http://helena.cnam.fr/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Helena is a High LEvel Nets Analyzer. It is part of the Quasar project, a framework for the verification of concurrent Ada software. Helena is totally free of charge and can be downloaded from our web site. It is written in portable Ada and available under the term of the GPL.

The high level formalism of Helena makes it adapted for the verification of software specification. Some features of the tool makes it particularly efficient in terms of memory management. To tackle the state explosion problem, Helena implements structural abstraction techniques and the stubborn set method. Helena can also exports nets to the following formalism : tina, lola, and prod.

Contact Information

Mr Sami Evangelista
292 rue Saint-Martin
F-75141 Paris Cedex 03
France

Phone:  +33 140272049
Fax:    
E-mail: evangeli@cnam.fr

Other Remarks

HiQPN-Tool

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://ls4-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/QPN/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

HiQPN-Tool is a tool to specify and analyze Hierarchically combined Queueing Petri nets (HQPNs), a class of combined Petri net and queueing network modeling formalisms.

HiQPN-Tool supports a hierarchical model specification in combination with qualitative and quantitative (performance) analysis, which massively profits from the hierarchical specification.

Contact Information

Informatik IV
University of Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund
Germany

Phone:  +49 231-755-4893
Fax:    +49 231-755-4730
E-mail: bause@ls4.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

Other Remarks

HISIm

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/1/17
Entry last validated: 2007/1/17

Tool homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hisim/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

This tool allows the user to create and simulate Hybrid Petri Nets using a GUI. The HPN implementation follows Demongodin and Koussoulas' definition of Differential Petri Nets, and additionally incorporates inhibitory and test arcs.

Contact Information

Alberto Amengual
International Computer Science Institute
1947 Center St, Suite 600.
Berkeley, CA, 94704
USA

Phone:  Remember country code
Fax:    Remember country code
E-mail: amengual@icsi.berkeley.edu

Other Remarks

This tool has been developed under the ICSI Fellowship for Spanish Technologists, funded by the Education and Science Ministry of Spain.

HPSim

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/9/15
Entry last validated: 2003/9/15

Tool homepage: http://www.winpesim.de

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

HPSim has a graphical editor which provides basic editing and simulation of Petri Nets. The tool is useful for beginners such as students in order to get familiar with Petri Nets.

The program supports Place/Transition Nets:

Places with limited capacity

The editor supports:

Contact Information

Henryk Anschuetz
Germany

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: hpsim@winpesim.de

Other Remarks

INA

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~starke/ina.html

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

See INA homepage

Contact Information

Prof. Dr. Peter H. Starke
Institut für Informatik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
GERMANY 

Phone:  +49 (30) 2093 3078 
Fax:    +49 (30) 2093 3081
E-mail: starke@informatik.hu-berlin.de

Other Remarks

Versions running under Sun-OS, Sun-Solaris, Linux and Windows are available on the INA homepage as well as the (English and German) manual.

Income Suite

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/26
Entry last validated: 2004/5/26

Tool homepage: http://www.get-process.com

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Income Process Designer is the core of the Income Suite. It is used to create, document, analyze, optimize and simulate business processes or monitor risks, targets or KPIs of a balanced scorecard in different operative systems. A complete and extensive business process model includes processes, resources, organizational structures, objectives, key figures, risks, process maps as well as product and performance catalogues. All aspects of your business processes are displayed in detail in clear, graphical models. Documents from different sources can be directly assigned to individual information modules.

Contact Information

Gaston Russi
Get Process AG
Rottmannsbodenstrasse 30
CH - 4102 Binningen / Basel
Switzerland

Phone:  +41 61 425 95 22
Fax:    +41 61 425 95 20
E-mail: info@get-process.com

Other Remarks

additional components of the Income Suite:

Income Knowledge Browser

Income Simulator

Income Monitor

Income Document Center

Income Process Pilot

Languages: English, German, Spanish, Portugese, French, Italian, Lettish

JARP

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://jarp.sf.net/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

JARP is a Java based Petri tool for education, but with a complete set of features.

It can export Petri nets to PNG, GIF, JPEG, PPM and PNML (XML based) file format.

Other analysis can be made by exporting nets to ARP file format.

Support for English, French and Brazilian Portuguese included.

Help with the development is welcome. See the JARP project page for more information.

Contact Information

Ricardo Sangoi Padilha
Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: ricardo_padilha@users.sourceforge.net

Other Remarks

JFern

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/26
Entry last validated: 2004/5/26

Tool homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfern

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Rakiura JFern - very lightweight Petri net framework with the simulator, written in Java and designed purely for Java developers. Tokens: Java Objects. Inscription language: pure byte-code compiled Java. XML-based net file format.

Contact Information

Mariusz Nowostawski
University of Otago
PO BOX 56, Dunedin
New Zealand

Phone:  +64 (3) 4798317
Fax:    +64 (3) 4798311
E-mail: mariusz@rakiura.org

Other Remarks

The latest release 3.0 provides support for graphical net construction and editing. Better hierarchical nets handling, better types (colours) of tokens handling, more intuitive inscriptions support, faster implementation, fussion places and page-based net decomposition, XML-based net structure and net layout (net and layout of the net seperated in different files). Net state file format to be provided soon.

JPetriNet

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/3/15
Entry last validated: 2004/3/15

Tool homepage: http://jpetrinet.sourceforge.net

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The project JPetriNet is a Petri Net modeling, analysis and simulation tool made in Java Programming Language. JPetriNet was previously intended to aid educational activities but also could be used in any other purpose involving concurrent systems.

Contact Information

Márcio Azevedo
Santa Rita do Sapucaí, MG 37540-000
Brazil

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: mecva@users.sourceforge.net

Other Remarks

Kontinuum

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/4/3
Entry last validated: 2006/4/3

Tool homepage: http://www.webandflo.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Web and Flo has created Kontinuum. A 100% Web based workflow design studio and end user environment. Kontinuum uses a petri nets to model workflow processes and displays these to end users to show for each workflow instance what transitions have been made.

Contact Information

Web and Flo
Level 12 575 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia 3000

Phone:  +61 3 9616 6250
Fax:    
E-mail: enquiries@webandflo.com

Other Remarks

LoLA

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/9/4
Entry last validated: 2007/9/4

Tool homepage: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~kschmidt/lola.html

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Reads a PT-net or HL net in simple syntax. Performs state space analysis for boundedness, various, reachability queries, reversibility, liveness, home states, deadlocks, dead transitions, CTL model checking, and some LTL properties. Uses various state space reduction techniques including stubborn sets, symmetries, coverability graphs, the sweep-line method and exploits knowledge about invariants.

Contact Information

Karsten Wolf
Universitaet Rostock, Institut fuer Informatik
Schwaansche Str. 2
18051 Rostock
Germany

Phone:  +49-381-4987670
Fax:    +49-381-4987642
E-mail:

Other Remarks

Maria

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/17
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/maria/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Maria is a reachability analyzer and a model checker whose modelling formalism is based on Algebraic System Nets, capable of handling tens of millions of reachable states and enabled transitions.

Maria includes a distributed algorithm for checking safety properties. The algorithm can be executed on multi-processor computers as well as on workstations in TCP/IP networks.

Optionally, nets can be unfolded or translated to transition systems.

Thanks to its modular design and open source license (GPL), Maria can easily be extended with new algorithms.

Contact Information

Marko Mäkelä
Timo Latvala
Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science
P.O.Box 5400
02015 Helsinki University of Technology
Finland

Phone:  +358 - 9 - 451 2895
Fax:    +358 - 9 - 451 3369
E-mail: maria@tcs.hut.fi

Other Remarks

Maria is efficient both in interactive use and in exhaustive reachability analysis, as it can both interpret models directly and compile them to fast C code.

The graphical user interface of Maria is based on GraphViz.

MISS-RdP

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/17
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.gfic-oasys.com/english/miss/description.htm

Tool availability: Commercial

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

MISS-RdP © Interactive Modelling and System Simulation by Petri Nets © IXI Copyright 1992-1998 TIMED, STOCHASTIC & COLOURED PETRI NETS HYBRID SIMULATION

Contact Information

GFI Consulting
Pôle Méthodes & Outils d'Analyse Système
Tony HUTINET
12, rue Rouget de Lisle
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux
E-mail : thutinet@gfi.fr
Tél : +33 (0)1 46 62 30 00
Fax : +33 (0)1 46 62 33 31

Phone:  (+33) (0)1 46 62 30 06
Fax:    (+33) (0)5 61 75 24 10
E-mail: missrdpsupport@gfi.fr

Other Remarks

MISS-RdP is a software tool developed by IXI in close relation with major industrials companies : AEROSPATIALE, ALCATEL, CENA (French Air Traffic Control), CNES (French Space Agency) and Research centers (CNRS/LAAS).

Based upon the Timed, Stochastic, Coloured and Hybrid Petri Net techniques, MISS-RdP computes operational performances statistics with Monte-Carlo Simulation. The tool is particularly adapted to take into account Deterministic Events (decisions, delays,...) or Random Events (failures, repair times,...). Thanks to Simulation, the typical restrictions encoutered with Stochastic Petri Nets are overcome. So both transient and stationary period results can be provided with MISS-RdP.

Editing the model and to apply parameters without the inconveniences of a restricting syntax is easily accomplished thanks to the graph and ergonomic interface. A concept of messages (conditions/actions related to transitions), which brings modularity and structure the model, is a determinant asset with regard to validation, evolutivity and potential re-use of the model. A concept of states and events enables the model to be dissociated from the measures and observations resulting from the simulation, and facilitates the sensitivity analysis.

MISS-RdP has been used in many industrial application fields (aeronautics, defense, manufacturing, nuclear, aerospace, air traffic control, transport, process industry...) for more than 7 days.

Examples of use :

MISS-RdP takes advantage of the mathematical and graphical power of Petri Nets (generic technique), and allows dynamic behaviours to be simulated.

The greatest interest of such a tool consists in the easy modelling of:

MISS-RdP is generally used to assist with the definition (design) of: MISS-RdP enables operational availability and exploitation costs calculation, and is very efficient for performing trade-off and sensitivity analysis. It is also used to help in the definition of spare parts and in the planning and scheduling of production.

The characteristics of MISS-RdP are particularly well suited to the analysis of industrial systems or processes that generally present:

MISS-RdP, developped in C++, is available on Unix (Solaris 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6) and PC (Windows 95, NT). MISS-RdP results can be exploited through any external spreadsheet program. MISS-RdP is available in english and french versions. A complete documentation is available including Installation Manual and User Manual.

A training course on Petri Nets is also proposed with exercices and industrial examples (1 or 3 days).

Based on Coloured Petri nets, MISS-RdP is particularly adapted to the modelling of the following :

The Hybrid modelling and simulation capacities of MISS-RdP are particularly well adapted to the modelling of production systems : modelling of interaction between the process (mainly continuous) and the control (mainly discontinuous). Thus, MISS-RdP is capable of being coupled with continuous simulators.

Such an hybrid simulator as Miss-RDP is well suited to support planning and scheduling activities in a production management environment, and to evaluate operational performances. Some specific developments are performed by companies in order to integrate MISS-RdP into their System Analysis Workshop.

The main developments consist in :

The Model-Checking Kit

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/18

Tool homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/fmi/szs/tools/mckit/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The Model-Checking Kit is a collection of programs which allow to model a finite-state system using a variety of modelling languages, and verify it using a variety of checkers, including deadlock-checkers, reachability-checkers, and model-checkers for the temporal logics CTL and LTL. The checkers are taken from different existing tools like PROD, SMV, or PEP. They use state-of-the-art techniques to avoid the state explosion problem, such as symbolic model checking (BDDs) and partial orders. The modelling languages include among others the low level language of PEP, because some tools can export models to this language, B(PN)2, a structured parallel programming language and CFA, a language for the description of communicating finite automata.

The most interesting feature of the Kit is that independently of the description language chosen by the user all checkers can be applied to the same model. It is not necessary to model the system in different modelling languages.

Contact Information

Prof. Dr. Javier Esparza
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für Formale Methoden der Informatik
Abteilung Sichere und Zuverlässige Softwaresysteme
Universitätsstr. 38
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany

Phone:  +49 711 7816-455
Fax:    
E-mail: mckit@in.tum.de

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Netlab

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/4/6
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.irt.rwth-aachen.de/download/netlab

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Netlab is a modeling, analysis and simulation environment also supporting the design and synthesis of discrete event or hybrid systems under Matlab/Simulink. Netlab contains a very good P/T net editor, loading and saving in PNML.

Contact Information

Philipp Orth
Institut für Regelungstechnik der RWTH Aachen
Steinbachstraße 54
52056 Aachen
Germany

Phone:  +49 241-80-27500
Fax:    +49 241/80-22296
E-mail: netlab@irt.rwth-aachen.de

Other Remarks

Netlab is a Petri net tool developed since the late 1980's at the Institute of Automatic Control (Institut für Regelungstechnik) at Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany. At present, the source code is developed in C++.

Netlab is used in research and education at Aachen University and unfortunately (for international users) it is equipped with a German user interface and documentation only.

Nevod

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/25
Entry last validated: 2004/5/25

Tool homepage: http://geocities.com/zsoftua

Tool availability: Commercial

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Nevod - system of modelling of processes and acceptance of decisions in CAM. Nevod is intended for maintenance of the automated and automatic acceptance of decisions in logic and organizational management systems. A basis of architecture of system makes a model of discrete parallel processes in the form inhibitor Petri net - the modern world-wide recognized mathematical tool.

Contact Information

Dmitry Zaitsev
Dachi Kovalevskogo, 20
Odessa 65038
Ukraine

Phone:  +38 0482 234074
Fax:    +38 0482 236269
E-mail: zsoftua@yahoo.com

Other Remarks

Opera

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/5/25
Entry last validated: 2004/5/25

Tool homepage: http://geocities.com/zsoftua

Tool availability: Commercial

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Opera - system of operative planning and management on the base of network models. Opera is intended for automation of processes of operative planning and production managements on the basis of tool computer means. Basic scope of system - management of industrial activity at the machine-building (electronic device building) enterprise. Application of system in other fields is possible where it is necessary to provide effective performance of complexes of the interconnected works on the limited resources. The model of object of management is submitted by timed Petri net.

Contact Information

Dmitry Zaitsev
Dachi Kovalevskogo, 20
Odessa 65038
Ukraine

Phone:  +38 0482 234074
Fax:    +38 0482 236269
E-mail: zsoftua@yahoo.com

Other Remarks

ORIS

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/1/9
Entry last validated: 2006/1/9

Tool homepage: http://www.stlab.dsi.unifi.it/oris/index.html

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ORIS comprises a rich set of tools for building, simulating, analyzing and validating Time Petri Net models. In particular, the semantics of Preemptive Time Petri Nets gives Oris the expressive power which permits the treatment of practical schedulability problems. As a result, Oris can be used to model complex tasking sets which include different release policies such as recurring, sporadic and one shot. It permits modelling of inter-task dependencies due to the timing of releases, to mutual exclusion on shared resources and dataflow precedence relations. It also enables modelling of internal sequencing of tasks and nondeterministic computation times. This applies to both the case of single and multiple processors systems.

(http://www.stlab.dsi.unifi.it/oris/index.html)

Contact Information

Dipartimento Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze
3, via santa Marta, 50139, Firenze Italy

Phone:  +39 055 4796 266 / +39 055 4796 526 / +39 055 4796 365 
Fax:    +39 055 4796 363
E-mail: bucci@dsi.unifi.it; vicario@dsi.unifi.it; fbaldini@dsi.unifi.it; poli@dsi.unifi.it; sassoli@dsi.unifi.it;

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P3

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/8/9
Entry last validated: 2004/8/9

Tool homepage: http://www15.brinkster.com/p3net

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Graphical user interface enables representing Petri Net models like graphs. The P3 workspace is divided into two parts: on the left there is the navigation tree of Petri net objects; on the right there is a document review of the Petri net graph which is being operated at the moment.

Two ways of simulation: individual executing of transition, parallel executing of all transitions with previous resolving of conflict situations. Tools for model analysis developed in P3 are the following: reachability tree, matrix equations, firing tree, and firing graph.

P3 uses Petri Net Markup Language for sharing Petri nets with other Petri net tools. The P3 tool has three eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs) that transform P3's interpretation of PNML into the formats of the following tools: DaNAMiCS, Renew, Petri Net Kernel.

P3 supports the Petri net ontology in the RDFS definition. Also, P3 produces RDF-annotated SVG documents with Petri net models.

Contact Information

GoodOldAI research group
FON-School of Business Administration, The University of Belgrade
POB 52, Jove Ilica 154
Belgrade/Serbia/11000
Serbia and Montenegro

Phone:  +381 11 3950853 
Fax:    +381 11 461221 
E-mail: gasevic@yahoo.com

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PACE

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/5
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.ibepace.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PACE nets are hierarchically structured stochastic high-level Petri nets with time and Fuzzy modeling. A short overview of PACE and many instructive examples can be found on the IBE homepage: www.ibepace.com.

PACE 5.0+, including Fuzzy and advanced optimization technics, is available in English and German language.

Contact Information

Dr.-Ing. Bernd Eichenauer
IBE Simulation Engineering GmbH
Postfach 1142
D-85623 Glonn
Germany

Phone:  +49 (0)8093 5000
Fax:    +49 (0)8093 5000
E-mail: eichenauer@ibepace.com

Other Remarks

PACE nets are attributed with Smalltalk-80. All net elements can be iconified with user graphics. Easy to use C-interface using DLLs. DDE interface with special extensions for EXCEL and ACCESS. Special non-expert interface for the daily use in applications. To avoid handling errors in applications PACE models can be frozen. Many different graphical elements which can be used for data input and visualization purposes. Extended Fuzzy modeling; amongst other special controllers are supported (Mamdani, Sugeno). Optimization of mathematical and PACE net functions using several optimization methods and combinations of these methods.

PED

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/6
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www-dssz.Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE/~wwwdssz/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PED is intended as an graphical front end to those Petri net analysis and simulations tools which have not its own graphical editor. PED allows the construction of hierarchical Place/Transition nets with non-stochastically time assignments. Export functions to INA, PEP, and PROD are currently supported. Additionally PED allows the invocation of self-written export functions.

Contact Information

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Monika Heiner
Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science
Chair of Data Structures and Software Dependability
Postbox 10 13 44
D-03013 Cottbus 
Germany

Phone:  +49 355 69 3884 
Fax:    +49 355 69 3830
E-mail: ped@informatik.tu-cottbus.de

Other Remarks

PEP

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/9/27
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://peptool.sourceforge.net/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The PEP tool (Programming Environment based on Petri Nets) is a comprehensive set of modelling, compilation, simulation and verification components, linked together within a Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface.

PEP's modelling components facilitate the design of parallel systems by parallel programs, interacting finite automata, process algebra, or high-level/low-level Petri nets.

PEP's compilers generate Petri nets from such models.

PEP's simulators allow automatic or user-driven simulation of high-level/low-level nets and may trigger simulation of the corresponding programs.

PEP's verification component contains various Petri net indigenous algorithms to check, e.g., reachability properties and deadlock-freeness, as well as model checking algorithms. Presently, PEP contains a prefix-builder on top of which Esparza's model checking algorithm which allows simple branching-time logic properties to be checked very efficiently on nets, and hence on all input models of PEP.

PEP also has a good interface to Starke's INA package, in which a wide range of structural analysis algorithms such as the computation of place invariants, transition invariants, siphons and traps, as well as stubborn set and symmetrically reduced state space analysis, are implemented. Interfaces to the verification tools SMV, SPIN and FC2Tools provide BDD based model checking and support LTL/CTL formulae.

Contact Information

Prof. Dr. Eike Best, Christian Stehno
University of Oldenburg
Fachbereich Informatik
Parallel Systems group
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany

Phone:  +49 441 798 2973 (EB), 3838 (CS), 2426 (Secr.)
Fax:    +49 441 798 2965
E-mail: {pep_help,eike.best,christian.stehno}@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

Other Remarks

The PEP WWW page contains information (e.g. on new developments) and further links about the tool and its underlying theory. A detailed documentation, selected papers, installation notes, format descriptions and various versions of the tool can be downloaded. PEP runs on Solaris and Linux.

PEP is being developed by the research group led by Eike Best in Oldenburg. There have been numerous contributions and support for PEP by a lot of people outside the group, and financial support by the DFG (German Research Foun dation) in 1993-1999. The overall responsibility for the design of PEP has been with Bernd Grahlmann. Christian Stehno took over responsibility for development and support of PEP in 1999. A complete list of contributors can be found in the `About'-box of the tool.

PetitPetri

Overview

Entry last updated: 2005/12/2
Entry last validated: 2005/12/2

Tool homepage: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

A simple petri net editor used in our concurrent programming course dragged and dropped together with only 33 lines of EToy-Code. Runs in the wbe-browser if the squeak-plugin from

http://www.squeakland.org

is installed.

Sample nets can be found on the website under "more examples". An empty editor can be loaded (after having installed squeak) from

http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/petriNets.pr

Contact Information

Markus Gaelli
Software Composition Group
University of Bern
Switzerland

Phone:  +41-31-6313313
Fax:    
E-mail: gaelli@emergent.de

Other Remarks

Petrigen

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/6/23
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.ec-lille.fr/tomnab

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Petrigen is a tool written in Tcl/Tk (a script language) that offers features to synthesize Petri Nets from structural and behavioral specifications. It combines a Petri Net editor and an interface to any prolog iso compliant language, from which the results can be viewed in the editor. It allows the easy development of new features in Prolog thanks to a dedicated editor, and new Tcl/Tk functions can be added directly to a running program session with the use of a "Tcl terminal".

Contact Information

Thomas Bourdeaud_huy@ec-lille.fr
Ecole Centrale de Lille
Cité Scientifique
59650 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ 
FRANCE

Phone:  +33 0320335455
Fax:    +33 0320335418
E-mail: thomas.bourdeaud_huy@ec-lille.fr

Other Remarks

Petri-lld

Overview

Entry last updated: 2005/10/11
Entry last validated: 2005/10/11

Tool homepage: http://petrilld.sourceforge.net

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Petri-LLD is a Java program intended to be used to design automation controllers based on Petri-nets. The nets are restricted to one token per place (at most) as this ensures that the resulting systems can be easily translated to run on simple devices such as PLCs (programmable logic controllers). A large number of compiler output types are available, including ladder logic for Omron, Rockwell and Siemens controllers, and also Java and Visual Basic. Also a number of other PLC languages are supported.

This tool has mainly been used to teach students how to construct manufacturing systems. Its main advantage in this is that it allows the student to simulate prior to testing code on the PLC. At the same time, it automatically generates code, so when bugs are found, the student returns to the Petri-LLD tool to both simulate and correct the bug.

Contact Information

James Brusey
Institute for Manufacturing
Engineering Department
Cambridge University
16 Mill Lane
Cambridge
CB2 1RX
UK

Phone:  44 1223 765605
Fax:    44 1223 338076
E-mail: jpb54@cam.ac.uk

Other Remarks

Petri-LLD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For more details, see the file named COPYING that comes with the source distribution.

Petri Net Kernel

Overview

Entry last updated: 2002/10/24
Entry last validated: 2004/6/3

Tool homepage: http://pnk.sourceforge.net/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The Petri Net Kernel (PNK) is an infrastructure for developing Petri net tools. It relieves the programmer from implementing standard functions on Petri nets such as loading and saving nets, accessing and modifying the net structure, and building graphical user interfaces. Different components for the PNK can be arbitrarily combined and integrated into a single tool without programming effort.

The PNK is not restricted to particular Petri net types. Rather, the Petri net type can be specified by the programmer.

The PNK is implemented in the programming language Java and can be used in any environment on which Java is available. An older version of the PNK implemented in Python is available, too.

The standard file format of the PNK is the Petri Net Markup Language (PNML).

Contact Information

Michael Weber
Institut für Informatik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
D-10099 Berlin
Germany

Phone:  -
Fax:    -
E-mail: mjweber@users.sourceforge.net

Other Remarks

Petri .NET Simulator

Overview

Entry last updated: 2008/4/7
Entry last validated: 2008/4/7

Tool homepage: http://www.petrinetsimulator.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Petri .NET Simulator is an application that can be used for drawing and simulation of Petri nets. The application has been designed for modelling, analysis and simulation of flexible manufacturing systems but can be used for other discrete event systems as well.

New Subsystem technology. Petri net objects (Places and Transitions) can be grouped to Subsystems. This makes easier to understand and maintain Petri net model.

Contact Information

Goran Genter

Trg Kralja Tomislava 2
Koprivnica/48000
Croatia

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: support@petrinetsimulator.com

Other Remarks

Petri Net Toolbox

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/1/9
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.mathworks.com/products/connections/product_main.shtml?prod_id=556

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The Petri Net Toolbox is a software tool for simulation, analysis, and design of discrete event systems, based on Petri Net models. Five types of Petri Net models are accepted: untimed, transition-timed, place-timed, stochastic, and generalized stochastic nets. The timed nets can be deterministic or stochastic. Places may have finite or infinite capacity. Priorities or probabilities can be assigned to conflicting transitions. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows you to draw, store, and retrieve Petri Net models, as well as to start the procedures for simulation, analysis, and design. Animated demos and online help are available.

Contact Information

Technical University "Gh. Asachi" of Iasi
Departament of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics
Blvd. Mangeron, no. 53 A 
Iasi, 700050 
Romania

Phone:  +40-232-230751
Fax:    +40-232-230751
E-mail: pntool@ac.tuiasi.ro

Other Remarks

Typical end users of the Petri Net Toolbox include educators, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and specialists working in research and development. All the procedures available in the Petri Net Toolbox are implemented as M-files and are designed in a modular fashion to start from the GUI.

PetriSim

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://staff.um.edu.mt/jskl1/petrisim/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Graphical editor of Place/Transition nets. Work on more networks simultaneously. Disk Save/Load. Various options like color, size, line styles, etc. Simulation in various modes including: User procedures in Pascal modify the net behavior and can generate (possibly random) duration of firing. So Time and High level nets are also supported. User code can add any user status data.This supports generation of Discrete Simulation Models. Support for simulation of Queueing Networks in the form of icons and transparent statistics.

Contact Information

Jaroslav Sklenar
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of Malta
Msida MSD 06
Malta

Phone:  +356 2340 3070
Fax:    +356 2131 2110
E-mail: jaroslav.sklenar@um.edu.mt

Other Remarks

MS DOS based tool for education that can be started from Windows practically on any PC. Supports creation of Discrete Simulation Models in Pascal with simplicity typical for Simulation languages. Timing and synchronization is solved by the Time net, the rest by user added routines activated by events in the net (starting/finishing firing). Includes several units with objects supporting typical simulation tasks like:

Platform Independent Petri Net Editor 2

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/5
Entry last validated: 2003/5/5

Tool homepage: http://pipe2.sourceforge.net/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Create Petri Nets quickly, efficiently and effectively. Six analysis modules (so far) including Invariant Analysis, State-Space Analysis (deadlock, etc) & Simulation Analysis. Key design principle is extensible module interface allowing new analysis modules to be easily written. Conforms fully with PNML, although the file format is extensible through the use of XSLT.

Contact Information

James D Bloom

Phone:  +44 7815 052 722
Fax:    +44 20 7916 7665
E-mail: jamesdbloom@msn.com

Other Remarks

PNetLab

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/11/20
Entry last validated: 2006/11/20

Tool homepage: http://www.automatica.unisa.it

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Supervisory Control based on Petri Nets (PNs) or Colored Petri Nets (CPN) model of the plant leads to supervisors which can be PN/CPN themselves (compiled supervisors) or simply a set of logical predicates (interpreted supervisors). There is a lack of simulation and analysis tools that can be used in both cases and can support the development of supervisors. PNetLab is a simulation and analysis tool developed by the Automatic Control Group of the University of Salerno. It allows drawing of a PN/CPN model by a graphical user interface and the definition of the supervisor as a PN/CPN or as a standard C/C++ program implementing logical predicates. Functionalities to analyze the closed-loop model with all kind of supervisors (PN/CPN/logical predicates) are available (token game ad coverability tree) as well as standard functionalities when both the plant and the controller are PNs (P-invariants, T-invariants, minimal siphons and traps computation). In addition, PNetLab includes management of time (plant modelled by timed PNs/CPNs) and conflict management so as to permit testing of scheduling strategies together with the supervisor as required in performance optimization problems. Finally, the tool's simulation engine can be linked from an external program allowing look-aheads supervisory techniques.

Contact Information

Francesco Basile
Università degli Studi di Salerno  
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Ingegneria Elettrica     
Via Ponte don Melillo, 1
84084 Fisciano (SA)  
ITALY    

Phone:  +39-089-96-4400
Fax:    +39-06-233 227 957
E-mail: fbasile@unisa.it

Other Remarks

PNetLab allows the integration of a PN/CPN model with a standard C/C++ control algorithm thus allowing closed-loop analysis and simulations of supervised systems. A boolean variable -- whose value can be set by the supervisor -- is associate to each transition (to each transition colour) in the PN (CPN) plant model. It is also easy to integrate external tools for the solution of programming problems in order to implement very sophisticated supervisory control algorithms.

PNML Framework

Overview

Entry last updated: 2008/10/20
Entry last validated: 2008/10/20

Tool homepage: http://pnml.lip6.fr

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PNML Framework is a prototype implementation of ISO/IEC-15909 part 2, International Standard on Petri Net Markup Language.

The primary purpose of PNML is to enable interoperability among Petri net tools. Thanks to this standard transfer format, tools should be able to exchange Petri nets models, according to the standard specifications.

PNML framework has thus been designed to back the Standard. It will enable Petri nets tools developers to seamlessly integrate PNML support into their tools. It provides an extensive and comprehensible API to:

This work is jointly directed by F. Kordon (LIP6, Univ P. & M. Curie), L. Pettruci (LIPN/ Univ Paris XIII) and N. Trèves (CNAM/CEDRIC) within their AFNOR activities.

Development is handled by L.M. Hillah (LIP6, Univ P. & M. Curie).

Contact Information

F. Kordon & L.M. Hillah
LIP6, Université P. & M. Curie
4 place Jussieu
5722 Paris cedex 05
Fabrce

Phone:  +33 1 44 27 88 20
Fax:    Remember country code
E-mail: Fabrice.Kordon@lip6.fr,Lom-Messan.Hillah@lip6.fr

Other Remarks

This is the second generation of PNML Framework, supporting stable definitions of new Petri nets types from the Standard, which is expected to be definitively adopted by 2009. Feedback is welcome.

PNSim

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2003/5/2

Tool homepage: http://www.elyros.com/PNSim/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

This tool has been created last year by Georgios Markatatos as part of the 3rd year Computer Science degree in Southampton. The purpose of the tool is to show the simple concepts of black/white Petri nets to people interested in learning how Petri Nets work. The main purpose of this small application is not to compete with high level tools, but to help beginners understand how the Petri net tool concepts work, and provide those users with the appropriate knowledge, in order to use better, high-level tools.

This tool has been used for educational reasons, in the University of Southampton Electronics & Computer Science department by an MSc. communications course, in the academic year of 1997-1998.

Contact Information

Georgios Markatatos
Elyros S.A.
Zisimopoulou 5, 17564
Athens
Greece

Phone:  +30 210 - 9400562
Fax:    +30 210 - 9483226
E-mail: support@elyros.com

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PNtalk

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/5
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~janousek/pntalk/pntalk.html

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PNtalk language and system are based on object oriented Petri nets (OOPNs). OOPNs consist of classes which represent independent behaviour and methods of their objects. This all is described by Petri nets and at the same time all advantages of object orientation are preserved. Tokens in OOPNs represent trivial objects and objects described by Petri nets. OOPN dynamics uses modified concepts of invocation and remote procedure call. OOPN transitions can work with firing times derived possibly from probabilistic distributions.

The style of PNtalk object orientation and its net inscriptions are inspired by Smalltalk, PNtalk itself is implemented in Smalltalk, and it is possible to freely mix Smalltalk and PNtalk objects. Smalltalk also influenced the GUI of PNtalk. The user can work separately with particular nets of particular classes both when creating and debugging a model.

Contact Information

Tomas Vojnar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Technical University of Brno
Bozetechova 2
612 66 Brno
Czech Republic

Phone:  +42 0 5-7275231
Fax:    +42 0 5-41211141 
E-mail: vojnar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz

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Poses++

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/30
Entry last validated: 2003/5/30

Tool homepage: http://www.gpc.de

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Poses++ is a high speed simulation environment. Modelling is based on High-Level Petri-Nets with timed transitions, timed arcs, variable arc cardinalities, predicate access algorihms (fifo, lifo, ram, ...), net token construction by "C"-types and other features.

The systems target is extremly fast simulation speed to make it useful for really large scale models. The biggest known non theoretical model of a whole plant contains 30.000 transitions, 30.000 predicates and 100.000 arcs. Pure test models contain over 1.000.000 transitions.

Poses++ is useful for any kind of discrete event simulation models (logistics, hardware, communication, ...).

The system is built as complex multi client/multi server system connected via TCP/IP inside a LAN and over INTERNET. This and the C-code interface in the modelling language gives you the best possibilities for any kind of software integration.

We use Poses++ in our consulting projects not only for simulation purposes. Also we applied the system for real time test environments, for online future prediction in production processes and so on.

Contact Information

GPC mbH
Altchemnitzer Str. 52/54
D-09120 Chemnitz
Germany

Phone:  +49 371 57282 0
Fax:    +49 371 57282 44
E-mail: contact@gpc.de

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Since release 1.3 published at 09/01/1999 the Poses++ www-Pages moved to www.gpc.de, the pages of the developers.

This time the server software is running under UNIX and Win32 platforms. The Poses++ client software is available for Win32.

Predator

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/8
Entry last validated: 2004/5/18

Tool homepage: unknown (formerly: http://www.mark.wass.com/Petrinets)

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Predator was developed to provide an efficient way to design and display hierarchical Petri nets, by using the concept of Subnets. Further Predator was designed to allow users to dynamically load analysis modules. Such modules must implement a simple java interface, thus enabling users to write their own analysis modules for use with Predator. An invarieant analysis module has already been implemented. Predator supports Place Transition nets and Stochastic Petri nets.

Contact Information

Mark Wass

Phone:  
Fax:    
E-mail: mark@wass.com

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PROD

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/3/22
Entry last validated: 2007/3/22

Tool homepage: http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/prod/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PROD is a text-based tool that can be used in UNIX (any system of that kind) and in Windows (3.1, 3.11, '95, NT, '98, 2000, XP). Currently no graphical user-interface exists. PROD supports the following reduced reachability graph generation methods that may also be combined:

PROD supports verification of CTL formulas from the reachability graph, and on-the-fly verification of LTL formulas using e.g. the stubborn set method.

Contact Information

Kimmo Varpaaniemi

Koivukylän puistotie 14 A 5
FI-01360 Vantaa
Finland

Phone:  +358 9 871 4976
Fax:    
E-mail: kimmo.varpaaniemi@kolumbus.fi

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PROD has been used e.g. in the Emma project and in the analysis of the Frame Synchronised Ring, a video on demand system, an authentication protocol (HUT-TCS Reports A29, A36, B14), the ISDN-DSS1 protocol, and a PLC-based railway traffic control system.

Documentation for PROD is available as HUT-TCS Report B13 with an up-to-date addendum. Those who download the tool get this documentation automatically.

ProM framework

Overview

Entry last updated: 2008/08/05
Entry last validated: 2008/08/05

Tool homepage: http://www.processmining.org

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ProM - the leading process mining toolkit.

Processes are an integral part of today's world, driving services and internal functionalities in businesses, governmental bodies, and organizations around the globe. While there are plenty of systems available for supporting the execution of such processes, the current practices for monitoring and analyzing this execution in the organizational reality still leaves a lot to be desired. Process Mining is able to fill that gap, providing revolutionary means for the analysis and monitoring of real-life processes.

Process Mining research is concerned with the extraction of knowledge about a (business) process from its process execution logs. Process Mining strives to gain insight into various perspectives, such as the process (or control flow) perspective, the performance, data, and organizational perspective (The processmining.org web site has more in-depth information and scientific publications available).

ProM is an extensible framework that supports a wide variety of process mining techniques in the form of plug-ins. It is platform independent as it is implemented in Java, and can be downloaded free of charge. We welcome and support practical applications of ProM! Note that the ProM framework is issued under an open source license, namely the Common Public License (CPL), and we invite researchers and developers to contribute in the form of new plug-ins.

Currently, there are already more than 230 plug-ins available, and we support the import of (and the conversion between) several process modelling languages, such as:

There are mining plugins, such as:

Furthermore, there are analysis plugins dealing with:

Finally, ProM sports a large array of log filters, which are a valuable tool for cleaning logs from undesired, or unimportant, artefacts.

Contact Information

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven  
HG 7.73, Postbus 513, 5600 MB  
Eindhoven - The Netherlands  

Phone:  +31 40 247 2733 
Fax:    +31 40 246 3992
E-mail: wsinfsys@tue.nl

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PROTOS

Overview

Entry last updated: 2004/6/3
Entry last validated: 2004/6/3

Tool homepage: http://www.pallas-athena.com

Tool availability: Commercial (discounts for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

PROTOS is a tool to map processes in graphical way. It support Petrinet modelling, but also covers the information such as data, documents and applications and their relation to proces steps and conditions.

PROTOS Activate is a module to generate executable workflows directly from the PROTOS model (including form handling, data-text integration and integration).

With the ExSpect-plug-inn, sophistiated simulations can be executed.

Contact Information

Pallas Athena
Piet Joubertstraat 4
7315 AV Apeldoorn
PO box 747
7300 AS Apeldoorn
The Netherlands

Phone:  +31-55-3685300
Fax:    +31-55-3685311
E-mail: protos@pallas-athena.com

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QPME

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/1/17
Entry last validated: 2007/1/17

Tool homepage: http://www.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/staff/skounev/QPME/index.html

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

QPME (Queueing Petri net Modeling Environment) is a performance modeling and analysis tool based on the queueing Petri net modeling formalism. Queueing Petri nets combine the modeling power and expressiveness of queueing networks and generalized stochastic Petri nets. This provides a number of important benefits since it makes it possible to model systems at a higher degree of accuracy.

QPME is made of two components: QPE (Queueing Petri net Editor) and SimQPN (Simulator for Queueing Petri Nets). QPE provides a user-friendly graphical tool for modeling using queueing Petri nets based on the Eclipse/GEF framework. SimQPN provides an efficient discrete-event simulation engine for queueing Petri nets that makes it possible to analyze models of realistically-sized systems.

Contact Information

Dr. Samuel Kounev
University of Cambridge - Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK

Phone:  +44 (1223) 7 63687
Fax:    +44 (1223) 334678
E-mail: skounev@acm.org

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Renew

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/2
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.renew.de

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

Renew is a high-level Petri net editor and simulator that achieves a seamless integration of Petri nets and the Java programming language. Petri nets can implement methods and can be treated as first-class Java objects. On the other hand, Java code can be accessed from nets easily.

Renew implements bidirectional synchronous channels and multiple instances of a single net, thereby providing powerful abstraction concepts. The simulation engine is capable of executing multiple transition in separate threads. Renew is well suited for rapid prototyping and creating executable workflow models. Renew support flexible arcs, test arcs, clear arcs, and inhibitor arcs in addition to ordinary arcs. The timed net formalism allows delays on input and output arcs.

Contact Information

Arbeitsbereich TGI
  --- Renew ---
Fachbereich Informatik, Uni Hamburg
Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30
D-22527 Hamburg
Germany

Phone:  +49 40 42883 2245
Fax:    +49 40 42883 2246
E-mail: support@renew.de

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Renew is written in in the platform-independent language Java. Additionally, for many specific platforms we provide install scripts or specially packaged versions.

Renew is available with source code.

Romeo

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/17
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/irccyn/d/en/equipes/TempsReel/logs

Tool availability:

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

ROMEO performs : ROMEO is composed of a graphic interface written in Tcl/Tk and of two computation process of the state space of time Petri net

Contact Information

Olivier H. Roux
IRCCyN
UMR CNRS 6597
1, rue de la Noë
BP 92 101
44321 Nantes FRANCE CEDEX 03 

Phone:  
Fax:    +33 02 40 37 69 30
E-mail: romeo@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr

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SEA

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/9
Entry last validated: 2003/5/9

Tool homepage: http://www.c-lab.de/sea/

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The SEA environment (System Engineering and Animation) consists of a Net-Editor supporting the specification of hierarchical timed Predicate/Transition-Nets and a Graphic-Editor for the definition of an abstract graphical representation of a netmodel.

The Net-Editor is also capable for an immediate simulation of a specified model that is combined with an animation of both the Petrinet-Graphic and the abstract graphical representation.

Contact Information

Carsten Rust
C-LAB
Fürstenallee 11
33094 Paderborn 
Germany

Phone:  +49 5251 60-6126
Fax:    +49 5251 60-6065
E-mail: car@c-lab.de

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SIPN-Editor

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/8
Entry last validated: 2004/5/17

Tool homepage: http://www.eit.uni-kl.de/litz/ENGLISH/software/SIPNEditor.htm

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

The SIPN-Editor is a prototypical tool for editing, visualizing and translating hierarchical Signal Interpreted Petri Nets (SIPNs).
The main component of the generated SIPN tool is a graphics editor that allows for easily editing SIPNs in a direct manipulation manner. The primary purpose of the tool is to be used as a programming tool for PLC programmers. As the SIPN tool has been prototyped as a programming tool, created SIPNs are translated by the tool into equivalent IL programs which implement the SIPNs on PLCs.
Furthermore, the SIPN tool offers a code generator that produces SMV input code for verification.

Contact Information

Georg Frey
University of Kaiserslautern
Institute of Automatic Control
PO Box 3049
D-67653 Kaiserslautern

Phone:  +49 631 205 44 55
Fax:    +49 631 205 44 62
E-mail: frey@eit.uni-kl.de

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Simulaworks, Petri Nets Simulator

Overview

Entry last updated: 2006/7/28
Entry last validated: 2006/7/28

Tool homepage: http://www.simulaworks.net/default.asp?DOCID=59

Tool availability: Commercial

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

SimulaWorks package is a general purpose simulator, that supports an open set of simulation languages and AI techniques. SimulaWorks can be used to construct various system types like control loops, signal processing, logic and hardware circuits, manufacturing systems, production lines, traffic systems, complicated algebraic calculation, optimization and search problems, state diagrams and even graphs, presentation using graphics, run-able flow charts, and more... Also sometimes hybrid system of those systems can be simulated, like control and signal processing...

Many libraries are implemented for this simulator for example:

Control Library. Mathematics Library. GPSS Library. Petri Nets Library. Active Flow Chart Library. Smart Draw Library. Hardware/Logic Library. SimulaWorks is provided with Power Matrix script language, which is matrix based language that support most programming features beside the easiness and safety in use. Also it comes with large library of routines that support most matrices operations.

Contact Information

Ain Shams University / Faculty of Engineering
Cairo
Egypt

Phone:  +20 127343762
Fax:    +20 026702267
E-mail: admin@simulaworks.net

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SNAKES

Overview

Entry last updated: 2007/6/25
Entry last validated: 2007/6/25

Tool homepage: http://www.univ-paris12.fr/lacl/pommereau/soft/snakes

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also help on terminology)

Environments

Tool Description

SNAKES is the Net Algebra Kit for Editors and Simulators. It is a Python library that provides all then necessary to define and execute many sorts of Petri nets, in particular those of the Petri Box Calculus and M-nets family. Its main aim is to be a general Petri net library, being able to define and execute most Petri nets models, and providing the researcher with a tool to quickly prototype its new ideas. SNAKES should be also suitable to provide the data model for editors or simulators.

A key feature of SNAKES is the ability to use arbitrary Python objects as tokens and arbitrary Python expressions in many points, hence its wide generality. Another important feature of SNAKES is a plugin system that allows to extend the library and work with specialised classes of Petri nets.

Contact Information

Franck Pommereau
LACL, University of Paris 12
61 avenue du général de Gaulle
94010 Créteil
France

Phone:  33+145176600
Fax:    33+145176601
E-mail: pommereau@univ-paris12.fr

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SPNP

Overview

Entry last updated: 2003/5/5
Entry last validated: 2003/5/5

Tool homepage: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~kst/

Tool availability: Commercial (free for academic institutions)

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology) Components (see also