Use of Petri Nets in the Simulation of Command and Control Systems.

Abstract

Petri Nets were first proposed by C.A. Petri in 1962, in his doctoral dissertation, entitled Kommunikation mit Automaten. Modeler, a simulation package based upon STAPN's--an extended version of Petri Nets--was developed under contract to the Air Force Systems Command Foreign Technology Division. Further enhancements to Modeler were made under contract to the Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Analysis Center (TRAC) - Operations Analysis Center (OAC). Several studies and Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analyses (COEA's) at TRAC-OAC have utilized models developed with Modeler. This study effort was comprised of three major components: verification of Modeler's simulation engine; comparison of results generated by Modeler-based simulations to those of simulations written in procedural languages; and exploration of the overall suitability of Modeler-based simulations for production studies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289942

Entities

People

  • John J. Dileo

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Training
  • Artillery
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Doctrine
  • Foreign Technology
  • Language
  • Operational Effectiveness
  • Petri Nets
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Throughput
  • Training

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Information Retrieval
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control