Advances in Petri Nets and Decision-Making
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Interests: petri net theory and application; supervisory control of discrete event systems; workflow modeling and analysis; system reconfiguration; game theory; data and process mining
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Dear Colleagues,
Petri nets have received much attention from researchers and practitioners over the past few decades thanks to their distinctive abilities and conveniences in modeling, analysis, and control of various systems where computers play a central role in system design, operation, control, and maintenance. The applications of Petri nets range from software systems, workflows, production, urban traffic, and logistics to the contemporary infrastructures of human society, where Petri nets can be used as the models of decision-making.
In many cases, the decision-making support component in general controls and manages the evolution of a system. Due to their inherent features and characteristics, e.g., graphical representations and natural expressions of logic inference, Petri nets are appropriate for modeling a decision-making process via interacting with a system external environment by collecting the information and data that are even of uncertainty. Moreover, a variety of extensions can be defined over the skeleton of Petri nets such that different formalisms are created for specific-purpose applications.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to collect recent achievements in Petri nets and system decisions. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Petri net theory and application;
- Modeling, analysis, and control of cyber-physical systems using Petri nets;
- Knowledge representation and inference using Petri nets;
- Fuzzy (probabilistic) Petri nets and their applications;
- System control, fault diagnosis, and diagnosability of discrete-event systems;
- Petri nets and artificial intelligence;
- Data-driven control under Petri net formalism;
- Petri nets in manufacturing and production;
- Verification and enforcement of system properties;
- Petri net-based decision-making process modeling under game theory.
Prof. Dr. Zhiwu Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Petri net
- discrete-event system
- decision-making
- system modeling analysis
- systems control and decision
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