Course on Petri nets: Dates and Material

Lectures

Date Topic Script Extras
April 5, 2006 Motivation and informal introduction pp. 3-9  
April 12, 2006 S/T-Systems, basic concepts pp. 11-16  
April 19, 2006 Firing rule, reachability graph, unboundedness, coverability tree pp. 17-21  
April 26, 2006 Coverability tree, characterization of unboundedness pp. 22-28  
May 3, 2006 Cancelled (Studentenvollversammlung)
May 10, 2006 Standard properties, PN and linear algebra pp. 28-35  
May 17, 2006 State equation, place invariants, and boundedness pp. 36-41  
May 24, 2006 Lecture starts at 12.00 (this time due to the Senatssitzung)
Structural boundedness, transition invariants and deadlocks,
rank theorem (overview only)
pp. 41-43 (44)  
May 31, 2006 Rank theorem and free choice nets (overview only)
Siphons and Traps
pp. 44-49  
June 7, 2006 Siphons, Traps and Deadlocks
Variants of Petri nets
pp. 49-54  
June 14, 2006 Variants of Petri nets, Concurrency pp. 55-56  
June 21, 2006 High-level nets, Worflow theory 57-75 Workflow theory article
June 28, 2006(??) Cancelled: Due to the International Conference on Theory and Application of Petri Nets
July 5, 2006 Workflow constructs
Modelling Algorithms with High-level nets
75-79, DAWN Memo (German), Extra slides Article 1, Article 2
July 12, 2006 Modelling Algorithms
Summary
   

Tutorial

Date Assignments Solutions Extras
April 12 Tutorial 1 Solutions (in German)  
April 26 Tutorial 2 Solutions (in German)  
May 10 Tutorial 3 Solutions (in German)  
May 24 Tutorial 4 Solutions (in German)  
June 07 Tutorial 5 Solutions (in German)  
June 21 Tutorial 6 Solutions (in German)  
July 5 Tutorial 7 Solutions (in German)