The volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account on recent developments concerning the incorporation of fuzzy capabilities in Petri Net models. The results of such studies originated the class of models that have been designated by Fuzzy Petri Nets. The recent papers specially elaborated for this volume range over several aspects of fuzziness in Petri nets. They form an interesting collection of original works that covers a great variety of relevant problems concerning the concept of Fuzzy Petri Net model. The articles approach several of the most outstanding issues in the framework of Fuzzy Petri nets, such as the representation of time, consistency checking, learning, design, computational efficiency, modelling flexibility, among others. From the material collected in the book one can extract the points of view of leading researchers concerning the basic and advanced concepts, advantages, potential applications and open problems, related to the field.

Focus on the current state-of-the-art, both in theory and in practical applications

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From the contents : Introductory Section : Introduction to Petri Net Theory; Brief Introduction to Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems; Brief Introduction to Possibility Theory and Its Use for Processing Fuzzy Temporal Information.- Fuzziness in Petri Nets: Various Aspects : Fuzzy Petri Nets for Rule-Based Decisionmaking; Fuzzy-Timing High-Level Petri Nets for Time-Critical Systems; Time Fuzzy Petri Nets; Temporal Reasoning in Fuzzy Time Petri Nets; Reasoning with Fuzzy Temporal Rules on Petri Nets; Knowledge Base Verification Using Fuzzy Petri Nets; ... and more.