In: IFORS Symposium, IFAC Proceedings Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 / Geering, H.P.; Mansour, M.: Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications 1986, Selected Papers from the 4th IFAC, pages 455-460. Oxford, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo: Pergamon Press, 1987.
Abstract: Distributed decisionmaking organizations with synchronous protocols are represented using Petri nets. An algorithm for computing time delays is developed. Starting with a matrix representation of the organizational structure, all possible information processing paths are scanned and the time delay associated with each one is computed.