
doi: 10.1007/bfb0016209
It is a common practice in system design to build a system from its given behaviour. It is the general purpose in system analysis to get to know system behaviour from its structure. A common problem in both the two areas is how to specify. or to represent. system behaviour? This paper propose PROCESS PERIOD as the basic means of describing system behaviour, provided Petri Nets are used to model the system. A finite system can only have finite periods, and the total number of its periods is also finite. all processes. finite or not, can be constructed from, or decomposed into, periods.
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