| Article ID: | iaor20022181 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 279 |
| End Page Number: | 308 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
| Authors: | Zuo Ming J., Jiang Zhibin, Fung Richard Y.K., Tu Paul Y.L. |
| Keywords: | petri nets |
In this paper, colored Petri Nets with changeable structures (CPN-CS) are defined. The mechanisms used for carrying out the structure changes include change-by-modification (CBM) and change-by-composition (CBC). CBM is for modification of the structure of the current CPN model while CBC is for the composition of another CPN into the current CPN. A case study is provided to show that CPN-CS is effective for modeling one-of-a-kind production (OKP) system that is characterized by product design uncertainty and changes in resource availability.