The management of certain systems, such as manufacturing facilities, supply chains, or
communication networks implies assessing the consequences of decisions, aimed for the …

Abstract The design of Discrete Event Systems (DES) can be seen as a sequence of
decisions leading to a final product that complies with a set of specifications and operates …

The construction, set-up and operation of many systems of interest in sectors such as
industry, supply chains and communications are complex processes, which may require …

This paper formalises the evolution from decision problems to disjunctive optimisation
problems based on several alternative Petri Net (PN) models. This copes with the general …

Many technological, industrial or economical systems are described by discrete event
system (DES) models. The decision making processes that arise in the design and operation …

The need to obtain a high performance from a given manufacturing or logistic system, that
can be modelled as a discrete event system (DEVS), leads to a decision problem. In this …

Coloured Petri nets (CPN) constitute a formalism that belongs to the paradigm of the Petri
nets, used to model discrete event systems (DES). This formalism has been extensively …

Petri nets (PN) paradigm is broadly used to model discrete event systems (DES). Thanks to
both, its graphical and algebraic representations, PN provide a powerful and uniform tool …

Discrete event systems (DESs) provide an approximate approach for dealing with certain
types of real systems. DES has been extensively and successfully used in modelling and …

This chapter, that can be seen as the continuation of the previous one, presents additional
background material on Petri nets. In particular, the main focus is on structural analysis, ie …