Analytical models for parallel-processing systems. Technical report
Hany H. Ammar, Yongzhong Huang, R. Liu · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1986
This report proposes to use generalized stochastic Petri nets (GSPN) in reliability, maintainability, and availability studies. The novelty of this modeling approach results from the following distinctive reasons: (1) the GSPN offers a precise description of system activities and conditions while involving less complexity, comparing to other modeling techniques; specifically, it is an inherently effective bookkeeping for conditions and activities; (2) it provides a clairvoyant insight of the key parameters that effect RMA analysis; causes and results of events can be easily tracked by executing the GSPN; and (3) it takes the advantage of the existence of concurrency and timing of events, thus describes accurately the sequence of events.