Petri net

English Etymology Named after Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), German mathematician and computer scientist. Noun One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple , where is a set of places. is a set of transitions. and are disjoint, i.e. no object can be both a place and a transition is a set of arcs known as a flow relation. The set is subject to the constraint that no arc may connect two places or two transitions, or more formally: . is an initial marking, where for each place , there are tokens. is a set of arc weights, which assigns to each arc some denoting how many tokens are consumed from a place by a transition, or alternatively, how many tokens are produced by a transition and put into each place. Translations mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems Czech: cs Petriho síť f German: de Petri-Netz n Anagrams en eeinprtt pentrite en eponyms en Systems theory petri net