TimeNET-Sim-a parallel simulator for stochastic Petri nets

Author

Kelling, Christian

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Tech. Inf., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

9-13 Apr 1995

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

258

Abstract

TimeNET is a software package for modeling and performance evaluation with non-Markovian Petri nets. Concepts and implementation of the simulation component of this tool are introduced. The paper focuses on a reliable statistical analysis and the application of variance reduction techniques in a parallel, distributed simulation framework. It examines the application of variance reduction with control variates and shows an approach for their automatic selection in Petri net models. An example demonstrates the gain of variance reduction and parallelization

Keywords

Petri nets; discrete event simulation; parallel processing; software packages; statistical analysis; stochastic processes; TimeNET software package; TimeNET-Sim; control variates; modeling; nonMarkovian Petri nets; parallel distributed simulation framework; parallel simulator; parallelization; performance evaluation; statistical analysis; stochastic Petri nets; tool; variance reduction techniques; Analytical models; Delay; Distribution functions; Numerical analysis; Packaging; Performance evaluation; Petri nets; Robots; Stochastic processes; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Symposium, 1995., Proceedings of the 28th Annual

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7091-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIMSYM.1995.393574

Filename

393574