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	Title:	Interoperable Petri net models via ontology
	Author:	Dragan Gasevic, Vladan Devedzic
	Address:	School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Surrey, 13450 102 Ave., Surrey, BC V3T 5X3, Canada. ' Good Old AI Research Group, FON – School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 52, Jove Ilica 154, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
	Journal:	International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology 2007 - Vol. 3, No.4  pp. 374 - 396
	Abstract:	The paper presents a Petri net infrastructure that should allow sharing Petri nets on the Semantic Web. Previous solutions only provide model interchange mechanisms between Petri net tools. The Petri net ontology is a central part of our solution. The ontology is closely related to the Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) – an ongoing Petri net community sharing effort. We developed the Petri net ontology using both UML and the Protege tool, whereas we use RDF and OWL to represent the ontology. We implemented a Petri net software tool – P3 – that can be used to convert the Petri net ontology compliant models to the formats of current Petri net tools (e.g., DaNAMiCS, Petri Net Kernel, PIPE) using eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In order to show how the ontology can be used, we developed a simple educational web application that uses RDF-annotated ontology-based Petri net learning materials.
	Keywords:	Petri nets; interoperability; ontology development; semantic web; eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations; XSLT; OWL; learning materials.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJWET.2007.014439
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