In: Petri Net Technology for Communication-Based Systems, pages 22-36. Volume 2472 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Hartmut Ehrig, Wolfgang Reisig, Grzegorz Rozenberg and Herbert Weber (Eds.) --- Springer-Verlag, November 2003.
Abstract: The use of Petri nets by non-specalists is intended to be simplified with the help of assisting tools and tool environments. They need to bridge the cognitive gap between application-specialists, engineers who develop applications, and Petri net specialists who provide the engineering techniques needed for the application development. Bridging that gap requires information about the three different realms of reasoning to be mapped onto each other. The information about the realms of reasoning is provided primarily in the form of natural language terms and nomenclatures of terms that form structured ontologies. The mapping of ontologies will be assisted by existing systems that provide for the automatic matching of semantic nets.