Structured Solution of Stochastic DSSP Systems

  • Authors:
  • Javier Campos;Susanna Donatelli;Manuel Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PNPM '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Deterministically Synchronized Sequential Processes (DSSP) are essentially states machines that communicate, may be in complex forms but under some restricted patterns, through buffer places; their definition is compositional by nature. This paper considers the problem of exploiting this compositionality to generate the state space and to find the steady state probabilities of a stochastic extension of DSSP in a "net-driven", efficient way. Essentially, we give an expression of an auxiliary matrix, G, which is a supermatrix of the infinitesimal generator of a DSSP. G is a tensor algebra expression of matrices of the size of the components for which it is possible to numerically solve the characteristic equation Pi.G = 0, without the need to explicitly compute G. Therefore, we obtain a method that computes the steady state solution of a DSSP without ever explicitly computing and storing its infinitesimal generator, and therefore without computing and storing the reachability graph of the system.