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In this paper we introduce a new class of stochastic Petri nets in which one or more places can hold fluid rather than discrete tokens. After defining the class of fluid stochastic Petri nets, we provide equations for their transient and steady-state behavior. We give two application examples. We hope that this paper will spur further research on this topic.
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR-9108114, and by the Naval Surface Warfare Center under Contract N60921-92-C-0161.
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Trivedi, K.S., Kulkarni, V.G. (1993). FSPNs: Fluid stochastic Petri nets. In: Ajmone Marsan, M. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets 1993. ICATPN 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56863-8_38
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