The Dimensions of Petri Nets: The Petri Net Cube

Abstract

There exist many different Petri net formalisms. In this paper, we present the Petri Net Cube which helps to structure and classify the variety of Petri net formalisms. We show, that three basic aspects are sufficient for describing most classical Patri net formalisms. Since these aspects are independent of each other, we call them the three Dimensions of Petri Nets.