Yasper

Overview

Entry last updated: 2010/3/5
Entry last validated: 2010/3/5

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

Tool availability: Free of charge

Tool Features

Petri Nets Supported (see also help on terminology)

Place/Transition Nets
Stochastic Petri Nets
Petri Nets with Time

Components (see also help on terminology)

Graphical Editor
Token Game Animation
Fast Simulation
Net Reductions
Simple Performance Analysis
Interchange File Format
workflow case distinction

Environments

PC, MS Windows 2000
PC, MS Windows XP

Tool Description

Yasper offers easy editing, token gameplay and performance analysis with randomized automatic simulation for basic P/T nets with some extensions, including:

case-specific vs. inter-case token flow (quite a unique feature)
reset and inhibitor arcs
decision nodes with parametrized probabilities of alternatives
timed transitions (with token release determined by a gamma distribution)
subnets (parts of nets drawn on separate pages)

Contact Information

Kees van Hee, Reinier Post, Jan Martijn van der Werf
Department of Mathematics and Computing Science
Den Dolech 2
NL-5612 AZ Eindhoven
the Netherlands

Phone:  +31 40 247 2526
Fax:    
E-mail: support@yasper.org

Other Remarks

Yasper is a .NET application; it runs well on .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and probably on later versions, but has many problems on Mono; hence, it is only usable on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Some additional utilities are available, such as command line applications for Petri net format conversion and automatic simulation.

The code is not open source. One release, 1.0, is available on the website; if you want to try a more recent beta version, contact support@yasper.org.

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