Petri Net Simulation as a Service

Abstract. This paper presents an approach to integrating a Petri net simulator into a service-oriented simulation architecture in order to pro-vide on demand simulation as a service. As a concrete example the sim-ulation tool Renew is wrapped as a service and used to simulate a sample traffic control system represented as a Petri net model that is able to ad-just its parameters via reflective simulation in a distributed simulation environment. The simulation architecture where modeling and simulation is treated as a service (MSaaS) is presented. The main components, their roles and attributes are briefly discussed