Toward Developing a New Modular Petri Net

With the conclusion from the literature study done in the previous chapter (Sect. 5.5 “Research Gap: Conclusions of Literature Study”) and the research goals identified in Sect. 3.5 “Research Goals of this book”, this chapter takes the first attempt to design a modular Petri net. This chapter introduces the main elements of a modular Petri net, such as Petri modules and Intern-Modular Components (IMC). Also, the input and out ports (IO ports) of a module are introduced. The material presented in this chapter is an extended version of [3].