Modeling, analysis and control of Discrete Event Systems: a Petri net perspective

The goal of this contribution is to briefly overview the historical development of the field of Petri nets under a System Theory and Automatic Control perspective. It is by far not meant to be comprehensive or inclusive, but to review through several representative areas a few of the conceptual issues studied in the literature. It was not possible to consider here the many domains of application were the Petri Nets modeling paradigm was used, among many others: manufacturing, logistic, hardware and software, protocols engineering, health management, transportation, etc.