ON THE DECOMPOSITION AND AGGREGATION FOR STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS
Chuang Lin · 1997
This is a review paper on decomposition and aggregation for stochastic Petri nets. This paper gives a brief review of the methodologies considered in the literature. These techniques include the time scale decomposition, the near-independent decomposition, the response tirne preservation, the flow equivalent aggregation, the hierarchical modeling and the product-form solution. A few directions of research are discussed at the end of the paper to outline the open problems that still need to be solved in this area.