# Modeling: Workflow problems can be modeled and analyzed using graph-based formalisms like Petri nets.

* Petri nets

Some sources state that Petri nets were invented in August 1939 by Carl Adam Petri – at the age of 13 – for the purpose of describing chemical

Like industry standards such as UML activity diagrams, BPMN and EPCs, Petri nets offer a graphical notation for stepwise processes that include choice, iteration, and concurrent execution.

Unlike these standards, Petri nets have an exact mathematical definition of their execution semantics, with a well-developed mathematical theory for process analysis.

Execution of Petri nets is nondeterministic: when multiple transitions are enabled at the same time, any one of them may fire.

Since firing is nondeterministic, and multiple tokens may be present anywhere in the net ( even in the same place ), Petri nets are well suited for modeling the concurrent behavior of distributed systems.

Petri nets are state-transition systems that extend a class of nets called elementary nets.

Petri nets were invented in August 1939 by Carl Adam Petri – at the age of 13 – for the purpose of describing chemical

Petri nets utilize the properties of bipartite directed graphs and other properties to allow mathematical proofs of the behavior of systems while also allowing easy implementation of simulations of the system.

Examples of mathematical objects often used to model systems are: finite state machines, labelled transition systems, Petri nets, timed automata, hybrid automata, process algebra, formal semantics of programming languages such as operational semantics, denotational semantics, axiomatic semantics and Hoare logic.

* PEP tool, a programming environment based on Petri nets

* Roméo, an integrated tool environment for modeling, simulation and verification of real-time systems modeled as parametric, time and stopwatch Petri nets

Category: Petri nets

* Petri nets use variations on exactly one diagramming technique and topology, namely the bipartite graph.

Several other promising modeling techniques have been used, including Boolean networks, Petri nets, Bayesian networks, graphical Gaussian models, Stochastic, and Process Calculi.

* Petri nets

Models of concurrency such as the process calculi, Petri nets in 1962, and the Actor model in 1973 emerged from this line of enquiry.

The use of channels for communication is one of the features distinguishing the process calculi from other models of concurrency, such as Petri nets and the Actor model ( see Actor model and process calculi ).

A number of mathematical models have been developed for general concurrent computation including Petri nets, process calculi, the Parallel Random Access Machine model, the Actor model and the Reo Coordination Language.

To demonstrate their production, technicians stab inoculate multiple strains on separate multiple nutrient agar Petri dishes, incubate at 30 ° C for 24 h., overlay each plate with one of the strains ( in soft agar ), incubate again at 30 ° C for 24 h. After this process, the presence of bacteriocins can be inferred if there are zones of growth inhibition around stabs.

Subsequent to Petri nets other models of concurrency have been developed that can model asynchronous circuits including the Actor model and process calculi.

In recent years a number of attempts have shown that Petri nets can contribute to the development of business process integration.

The modelling focused on a Petri net based technique for business process modelling to which the Baan application units were to be linked.

Concurrency semantics is often based on mathematical theories of concurrency such as various process calculi, the actor model, or Petri nets.

Firing semantics of process P modeled with a Petri net displayed in the image above

Assuming process P in the KPN above is constructed so that it first reads data from channel A, then channel B, computes something and then writes data to channel C, the execution model of the process can be modeled with the Petri net shown on the right.

Research grade agar is used extensively in plant biology as it is supplemented with a nutrient and vitamin mixture that allows for seedling germination in Petri dishes under sterile conditions ( given that the seeds are sterilized as well ).

For experiments where cross-contamination from one experiment to the next can become a problem, plastic Petri dishes are often used as disposables.

Petri dishes are usually used to culture bacteria.

Petri dishes are often used to make agar plates for microbiology studies.

Petri plates are incubated upside down ( agar on top ) to lessen the risk of contamination from settling airborne particles and to prevent water condensation from accumulating and disturbing the cultured microbes.

Petri dishes are also used for eukaryotic cell culture in liquid medium or using solid agar.

They are: ( 1 ) In Basilica Sanctorum Petri et Pauli, for a church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, possibly the church which Aldhem founded at Malmesbury, ( 2 ) In Basilica Beatae Mariae Semper Virginis, St Mary's Church, possibly also at Malmesbury, ( 3 ) In Ecclesia Mariae a Bugge Extructa, for the church built by Bugga, that is Eadburh of Minster-in-Thanet, a royal lady of the house of Wessex, ( 4 ) the twelve tituli known collectively as In Duodecim Apostolorum Aris and ( 5 ) In sancti Matthiae Apostoli Ecclesia.

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The new pallia are solemnly blessed after the First Vespers on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and are then kept in a special silver-gilt casket near the Confessio Petri ( tomb of St. Peter ) until required.

In an abstract sense relating to a Petri net diagram, a transition of a Petri net may fire whenever there are sufficient tokens at the start of all input arcs ; when it fires, it consumes these tokens, and places tokens at the end of all output arcs.

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In molecular biology and microbiology, replica plating is a technique in which one or more secondary Petri plates containing different solid ( agar-based ) selective growth media ( lacking nutrients or containing chemical growth inhibitors such as antibiotics ) are inoculated with the same colonies of microorganisms from a primary plate ( or master dish ), reproducing the original spatial pattern of colonies.

He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Protestant reformers of Sweden.

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The Roman Catholic Church's current official teachings about papal privilege and power that are unacceptable to the Eastern Orthodox churches are the dogma of the pope's infallibility when speaking officially " from the chair of Peter ( ex cathedra Petri )" on matters of faith and morals to be held by the whole Church, so that such definitions are irreformable " of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church " ( ex sese et non ex consensu ecclesiae ) and have a binding character for all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's direct episcopal jurisdiction over all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's authority to appoint ( and so also to depose ) the bishops of all ( Catholic ) Christian churches except in the territory of a patriarchate ; and the affirmation that the legitimacy and authority of all ( Catholic ) Christian bishops in the world derive from their union with the Roman see and its bishop, the Supreme Pontiff, the unique Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ on earth.