Building insightful simulation models using Petri Nets - A structured approach

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Der Zee, Durk Jouke Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Petri Nets; Problem structuring solving; Simulation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; KEY ELEMENTS; MANUFACTURING DOMAINS; NET COMPONENT; REALISTIC SYSTEMS; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; STATIC STRUCTURES; STRUCTURED APPROACH; VISUAL SIMULATION;

GRAPH THEORY; PETRI NETS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79951513170     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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