¹Information Science School, Guangdong University of Business Studies, Guanzhou, P.R.China
²Key Lab of E-Business and Information Security, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, P.R.China
³Guangdong Key Lab of Electronic Commerce, Guangdong University of Business Studies, Guanzhou, P.R.China

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Abstract—Architecture design and specification is more important than algorithm or data structure establishment for a complex system, existing Architecture Description Languages are difficult to support the complete Internetware developing process. Petri nets describe system graphically and mathematically, provide a way to solve the problems in Internetware description and development. In this paper we investigate Internetware architecture description methods, current application of Petri nets in Internetware and the deficiency; present basic principles to describe Internetware architecture using Petri nets, the possible architecture model and architecture evolution mechanisms; discuss subnet based Web services composition description technologies; present the idea of developing Internetware using Petri nets as a whole process unified model. The Petri net method helps to transfer among different stages of Internetware developing easily; the smooth transition from architecture description to code implementation makes sure a good design can deduce a good realization.

Index Terms—Architecture Description Language (ADL); Software architecture; Unified Modeling Language (UML); Internetware; Petri nets

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Cite: Zhijian Wang, Yuping Hu, Shaohua Li, Dingguo Wei, "Internetware Structure Description and Research of the Petri Net Method," Journal of Software vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1779-1786, 2011.