| 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.