Delayed Transitions in GPenSIM
摘要
The General-purpose Petri Net Simulator (GPenSIM) is a tool for modeling, simulation, and performance analysis of discrete event systems. GPenSIM is specially designed to model real-life industrial systems. Hence, the transitions in GPenSIM represent real-life events, such as machines. However, this induces a problem, namely that an enabled transition consumes tokens from its input places immediately. This act of an enabled transition immediately consuming tokens gives only monetarily visibility to the tokens, which can be a problem for certain cases where we need to see the tokens in their input places for a while. This paper proposes a method to delay an enabled transition (“delayed transitions”) so that the tokens it is supposed to consume from its input places will be visible for a while. This paper, after presenting the theory and the method, also presents an application (the cat and mouse problem) of the delayed transitions.