28th Annual Simulation Symposium
TimeNET-Sim-a parallel simulator for stochastic Petri nets
Santa Barbara, California
April 25-April 28
ISBN: 0-8186-7091-6
TimeNET is a software package for modeling and performance evaluation with non-Markovian Petri nets. Concepts and implementation of the simulation component of this tool are introduced. The paper focuses on a reliable statistical analysis and the application of variance reduction techniques in a parallel, distributed simulation framework. It examines the application of variance reduction with control variates and shows an approach for their automatic selection in Petri net models. An example demonstrates the gain of variance reduction and parallelization.
Index Terms:
Petri nets; stochastic processes; discrete event simulation; parallel processing; statistical analysis; software packages; TimeNET software package; TimeNET-Sim; parallel simulator; stochastic Petri nets; performance evaluation; modeling; nonMarkovian Petri nets; tool; statistical analysis; variance reduction techniques; parallel distributed simulation framework; control variates; parallelization
Citation:
C. Kelling, "TimeNET-Sim-a parallel simulator for stochastic Petri nets," ss, pp.250, 28th Annual Simulation Symposium, 1995