Recent Trends in Petri Net Research: Methods and Innovative Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Petri net-based systems; analysis of Petri nets; hardware implementation; FPGAs; Verilog
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Dear Colleagues,
Petri nets continue to grow as a multipurpose tool across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields. They are a well-established formalism for modeling, analyzing, and verifying concurrent and distributed systems. Their ability to represent complex interactions, synchronization, and resource sharing makes them vital for studying systems. These systems exhibit concurrency, nondeterminism, and asynchronous behavior. Recent trends in Petri net theory and applications have expanded their impact in areas such as manufacturing systems, cyber–physical systems, biochemical networks, communication protocols, and software verification. This Special Issue will bring high-quality research contributions. It focuses on theoretical developments, novel analysis methods, and innovative applications of Petri nets. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, reachability analysis, invariant computation, model checking, and other extensions (classes) of Petri nets. We particularly welcome studies that address scalability challenges, integrate Petri nets with other modeling paradigms, or demonstrate efficient and effective analysis methods. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration, this Special Issue requests studies covering both foundational research and practical implementations, as well as those contributing to the advancement of Petri net methodologies within the scientific community.
Dr. Marcin Wojnakowski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Petri nets
- concurrent control systems
- model-driven development
- reachability analysis
- invariants
- model checking
- cyber-physical systems
- biochemical networks
- distributed systems
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