Modeling and simulation of projects with Petri nets

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1742-1749

  Kumanan, S ^a   Raja, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Invariant analysis; Petri nets; Project management; Reachability; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149112558     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2008.1742.1749     Document Type: Article

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