Article ID: | iaor19981099 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 1665 |
End Page Number: | 1680 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Shih H.M., Leung C.K.H. |
Keywords: | networks, systems |
In this paper we propose Management Petri Nets (MPN), an extension of classical Petri nets for modelling management systems. MPN have three kinds of places: status places, resource places and information places, and two kinds of transitions: AND transitions and XOR transitions. A hierarchical approach is utilized in the modelling of management systems with MPN. The integration of MPN models with the Information Technology support of management tasks through a common database is also proposed.