Petri nets in flexible and agile automation / edited by MengChu Zhou. - xix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science ; 310 . - Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science ; SECS 310. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to Petri Nets in Flexible and Agile Automation / MengChu Zhou and Richard Zurawski --
2. Application of Petri Nets to Sequence Control Programming / Tomohiro Murata --
3. Computer Aided Design of Logic Controllers with Petri Nets / Luca Ferrarini --
4. Automatic Generation of Sequence Control Programs via Petri Nets and Logic Tables for Industrial Applications / Takashi Sato and Kazuo Nose --
5. Planning and Scheduling Based on Petri Nets / Jean-Marie Proth and Ioannis Minis --
6. Petri Net-Based Heuristic Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing / Doo Yong Lee and Frank DiCesare --
7. Scheduling and Rescheduling of AGVs for Flexible and Agile Manufacturing / Shifang Li, Toshi Takamori and Satoshi Tadokoro --
8. Stochastic Petri Net Models of Communication and Flexible Systems / Jiacun Wang and Shengbing Jiang --
9. Deadlock Avoidance Policy for Flexible Manufacturing Systems / Keyi Xing, Baosheng Hu and Haoxun Chen --
10. Discrete-Event Control Design for Manufacturing Systems via Ladder Logic Diagrams and Petri Nets: A Comparative Study / Kurapati Venkatesh, MengChu Zhou and Reggie J. Caudill --
11. From State Transition Models to DFD Extended Methods for Specifying Reactive Systems / Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui --
12. Supervisory Control Specification and Synthesis / Mohsen Jafari

Over the past two decades, research in the theory of Petri nets and the development of graphical tools has yielded a powerful methodology.

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