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| | Petri Net Models |
 | | Petri nets, or place-transition nets, are classical models of concurrency, non-determinism, and control flow, first proposed by Carl Adam Petri in 1962. |
 | | Classical Petri nets are useful in investigating qualitative or logical properties of concurrent systems, such as mutual exclusion, existence and absence of deadlocks, boundedness and fairness. |
 | | The basic philosophy underlying the use of various classes of stochastic Petri net in performance evaluation is the equivalence of their marking process, under appropriate distributional assumptions, to a Mrkov or Semi-Markov process with discrete state space. |
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