Modelling, prototyping and verifying concurrent and distributed applications using object-oriented Petri nets

摘要

This paper presents several research issues associated with the PNtalk language that is based on a certain kind of object-oriented Petri nets (OOPNs) and intended mainly for modelling, prototyping, and verifying concurrent and distributed applications. The paper reviews the main concepts of PNtalk and OOPNs followed by a proposal of a system allowing prototypes based on PNtalk to be run in a distributed way. Furthermore, the first step made towards state spacesbased formal analysis and verification over PNtalk OOPNs are also briefly mentioned in the paper.