Análise e aplicações em redes de Petri temporais : uma abordagem via álgebra intervalar

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to establish formal conditions for time Petri nets analysis by interval algebra. The interval algebra is traditionally used as a mathematical tool in the solution of problems related to uncertainty. In fact time Petri nets are characterized by presenting an uncertainty at the moment of its transitions firing. This imprecision is denoted by a firing interval. Thus, in this work the dynamics of the firing intervals throughout the evolution of the net is represented by a linear interval equation, which makes possible the calculation of transition firing intervals without generating the whole space of states to be explored, completely or partially. Also, this interval equation is used to solve a kind of inverse problem to the previous one. That is, given a time specification for a time Petri net to evalue from a state to another one any to compute the possibilities of firings between these two states, in case that it exists. Throughout the development of the approach, other important results have been obtained, such as: reduction methods for time Petri nets baseds interval approximation, reduction of the state space, and an alternative for the construction of the state graph with relative and absolute times. The developed approach was applied to different problems to compute metrics such as: maximum and minimum time separation ocurrence of two transition, the scheduling validation of firing sequence, times of cycles, among others.