UDC 65.01

Petri Nets on the Semantic Web - Guidelines and Infrastructure

Dragan Gasević1, 2

  1. GOOD OLD AI research group, FON School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade
    Belgrade, Serbia
  2. Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Military Academy
    Belgrade, Serbia
    dgasevic@acm.org

Abstract

This paper gives the Petri net ontology as the most important element in providing Petri net support for the Semantic Web. Available Petri net formal descriptions are: metamodels, UML profiles, ontologies and syntax. Metamodels are useful, but their main purpose is for Petri net tools. Although the current Petri-net community effort Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) is XML-based, it lacks a precise definition of semantics. Existing Petri net ontologies are partial solutions specialized for a specific problem. In order to show current Petri net model sharing features we use P3 tool that uses PNML/XSLT-based approach for model sharing. This paper suggests developing the Petri net ontology to represent semantics appropriately. This Petri net ontology is described using UML, Resource Description Framework (Schema) - RDF(S) and the Web Ontology Language - OWL.

Publication information

Volume 1, Issue 2 (November 2004)
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Gasević, D.: Petri Nets on the Semantic Web - Guidelines and Infrastructure. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, 127-151. (2004)