TIMED COLOURED PETRI NETS USE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT FORMALIZATION DOMAIN

The aim of this paper is to present a unified approach to Petri Nets exploitation for project plan creation and modelling needs. It describes how a technique of Petri Nets, in concrete, the Timed Coloured Petri Nets (T-CPN) can be used to model and, subsequently, to online monitor project plan development. Our intention is to simplify the whole process of project plan creation and control through the Petri nets models by way of online optimization of a project in a discrete time. The created T-CPN model is extended, in addition, with resource modelling and mutually exclusive activity performance modelling. We have also introduced a new algorithm, which is able to translate and, as a next step, to simplify main network diagram representations to a T-CPN. If required, the resource modelling can be added.