Generic Bi-layered Net model

Abstract

The recently developed Generic Bi-layered Net model provides a common framework for the simulation of the hybrid (continuous and discrete, quantitative and qualitative) balance-based and/or rule-based processes. The common features of the process models are represented by a bi-layered net of variable structure also determines the network (ring) structures of the influence routes and flux routes, as well as the Gantt Chart view of the process. The advantage of the new methodology is that the computational model is specified by the very structures and building elements of the process to be modeled. Using this approach, the qualitative complexity of the usual mathematical models can be transformed into the multiplication of the building elements of four types.