A Petri Net Type Definition (PNTD) determines the legal concrete
file format for nets of a certain type. There are a lot of
different PNTDs. On the other hand, there are many features of
Petri nets which are shared by several Petri net types. The
definitions of these features are collected in a
Conventions Document.
Usage
A PNML document (a Petri net file) determines its Petri net type and
therefore the PNTD which it follows. In order to validate the Petri
net type specific features of a PNML document you will need a
specific PNTD.
A PNTD includes the definitions of PNML
(either basicPNML or structuredPNML or modularPNML) and the
Conventions Document. Each definition
of a Petri net object which has a special feature in nets of that
type is enlarged by label definitions. A label definition comes
ideally from the Conventions Document. If not, the user has to
define the needed label. See the PNTDs on this site as examples.
Proposals
If you developed a PNTD you are asked to publish it on this site.
Please send us your developments with a short description of the
features of your PNTD and a reference to a formal description of
the Petri net type.
PNTDs
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Michael WeberptNetb.pntd,
June 2003(This PNTD implements the Petri
net type for Place/Transition nets [Rei87]. It bases on the
definitions for basic
PNML.)
