TY - GEN
T1 - The Access/CPN framework: a tool for interacting with the CPN tools simulator
AU - Westergaard, M.
AU - Kristensen, L.M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Coloured Petri nets (CP-nets or CPNs) is a widely used formalism for describing concurrent systems. CPN Tools provides a mature environment for constructing, simulating, and performing analysis of CPN models. CPN Tools also has limitations if, for example, one wishes to extend the analysis capabilities or to integrate CPN models into external applications. In this paper we present Access/CPN, a framework that facilitates such extensions. Access/CPN consists of two interfaces: one written in Standard ML, which is very close to the simulator component of CPN Tools, and one written in Java, providing an object-oriented representation of CPN models, a means to load models created using CPN Tools, and an interface to the simulator. We illustrate Access/CPN by providing the complete implementation of a simple command-line state space exploration tool.
AB - Coloured Petri nets (CP-nets or CPNs) is a widely used formalism for describing concurrent systems. CPN Tools provides a mature environment for constructing, simulating, and performing analysis of CPN models. CPN Tools also has limitations if, for example, one wishes to extend the analysis capabilities or to integrate CPN models into external applications. In this paper we present Access/CPN, a framework that facilitates such extensions. Access/CPN consists of two interfaces: one written in Standard ML, which is very close to the simulator component of CPN Tools, and one written in Java, providing an object-oriented representation of CPN models, a means to load models created using CPN Tools, and an interface to the simulator. We illustrate Access/CPN by providing the complete implementation of a simple command-line state space exploration tool.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02424-5_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02424-5_19
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-02423-8
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
BT - Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets (Petri Nets 2009), 22-26 June 2009, Paris, France
A2 - Franceschinis, G.
A2 - Wolf, K.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -