Towards the automated construction of multicomponent petri nets models of supply chains

This paper addresses the authors' cur-rent results to generate customised tools supporting the construction of simulation models of complex supply chains. The proposed approach combines the advantages of meta-modelling (to minimise the effort required to construct a tool supporting the implementation of the developed method) and graph transformation systems (to express the rules underlying the handling of the set of routing constructs identified in the authors' work). These provide the basis for further automated generation of complex Petri nets models from the appropriate graph grammars.