A software platform for the integration of discrete event systems tools

This paper presents a software platform for the integration of discrete event systems tools that is being developed within the FP7 European project DISC “Distributed supervisory control of complex plants”. The objective of this software platform is to integrate several tools dealing with Petri nets and automata. The purpose is twofold: first allow for a rigorous comparison of the methods and algorithms developed by the DISC project partners, second provide a packaged tool which would facilitate transfer of these techniques to the end users. The interchange format is compliant to the ISO standard Petri Net Markup Language PNML. The platform includes a series of plug-ins and adapters to manipulate/transform the different file formats supported by the platform.