Developing a New Petri Net Tool for Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

This paper talks about developing a new Petri net tool for modeling and simulation of discrete event systems. Firstly, this paper presents a short survey on the tools for modeling and simulation of discrete event systems. Secondly, the architecture of the new tool called general-purpose Petri net simulator (GPenSIM) is given; GPenSIM is designed to achieve (1) flexibility, as it is based industry standard platform, (2) extensible, as it can be extended by user programmed functions, and can access mathematical functions & libraries, and (3) programming language and operating systems neutral, as the models can be defined in XML based Petri net markup language (PNML).