1 Introduction. - 1. 1 Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. - 1. 2 Performance Models for Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. - 1. 3 Timed Petri Nets: A Powerful Tool. - 2 Petri Nets. - 2. 1 Preliminary Definitions. - 2. 2 Transition Firing. - 2. 3 Representational Power. - 2. 4 Properties of Petri Nets. - 2. 5 Analysis of Petri Nets. - 3 Deterministic Timed Petri Nets. - 3. 1 Deterministic Timed Transitions Petri Nets. - 3. 2 Performance Analysis. - 3. 3 Other Types of Deterministic Timed Petri Nets. - 4 Time Petri Nets. - 4. 1 Time Petri Nets. - 4. 2 An Enumerative Method for Analysis of Time Petri Nets. - 4. 3 Reduction of Time Petri Nets. - 4. 4 Compositional Time Petri Net Models. - 4. 5 Applications of Compositional Time Petri Net Models. - 5 Stochastic Timed Petri Nets and Stochastic Petri Nets. - 5. 1 Stochastic Timed Petri Nets. - 5. 2 Continuous Time Markov Chains. - 5. 3 Queuing Networks. - 5. 4 Stochastic Petri Nets. - 5. 5 Production Form Solution for Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6 Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6. 1 Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6. 2 Analysis of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6. 3 Aggregation of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6. 4 Time-Scale Decomposition of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. - 6. 5 Generalized Stochastic Petri Net Model of Ethernet. - 7 High-Level Stochastic Petri Nets. - 7. 1 Colored Stochastic Petri Nets. - 7. 2 Stochastic High-Level Petri Nets. - 8 Semi-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets. - 8. 1 Extended Stochastic Petri Nets. - 8. 2 Analysis of Extended Stochastic Petri Nets Based on Moment Generating Functions. - 8. 3 Petri Nets with Deterministic and Exponential Firing Times. - 9 Arbitrary Stochastic Petri Nets. - 9. 1 Arbitrary Stochastic Petri Nets and Hybrid State Probability Density Functions. - 9. 2 Hybrid State Probability Densities of Acyclic Arbitrary Stochastic Petri Nets. - 9. 3 Time Delay Analysis of Arbitrary Stochastic Petri Nets. Language: English