Symbolic methods for the state space exploration of GSPN models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2324 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 188-199

  Davies, Ian ^a   Knottenbelt, William J ^b   Kritzinger, Pieter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETRI NETS; SPACE RESEARCH; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AD-HOC HEURISTICS; ENCODING FUNCTIONS; GENERALISED STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS; REAL-LIFE SYSTEMS; STATE EXPLORATION ALGORITHMS; STATE SPACE EXPLORATION; STATE TRANSITIONS; SYMBOLIC TECHNIQUES;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84898078100     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46029-2_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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