Petri nets, as a graphical and mathematical tool, provide a uniform environment for
modelling, formal analysis, and design of discrete event systems. The main objective of this …

Resource allocation systems (RASs) belong to a kind of discrete event system commonly
seen in the industry. In such systems, available resources are allocated to concurrently …

Deadlocks are a rather undesirable situation in a highly automated flexible manufacturing
system. Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to …

Petri Net Synthesis for Discrete Event Control of Manufacturing Systems develops two
essential resource-sharing concepts: parallel and sequential mutual exclusions and …

This paper surveys recent research on the application of Petri net models to the analysis and
synthesis of controllers for discrete event systems. Petri nets have been used extensively in …

Deadlock problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have received more and more
attention in the last two decades. Petri nets are one of the more promising mathematical …

This paper exploits the potential of siphons for the analysis of Petri nets, It generalizes the
well-known Commoner condition and is based on the notion of potential deadlocks which …

Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

As more and more producers move to use flexible and agile manufacturing as a way to keep
them with a competitive edge, the investigations on deadlock resolution in automated …