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Analysis of Software Complexes Support Automation Impact Factors with Usage of Colored Petri Nets

SISN.
2024;
Volume 16
: pp. 88 - 103
https://doi.org/10.23939/sisn2024.16.088
Authors:
  1. Andrii Pukach
  2. Vasyl Teslyuk
1
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Automated Control Systems
2
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine

Model based on colored Petri nets, and dedicated for analysis an impact factors of the software complexes support automation processes, has been developed. Model provides possibilities for simulation of the processes of impact factors analysis in the field of software complexes support automation when solving the scientific and applied task of analyzing and restoring the boundaries of impact factors in supported objects subjective perception models with encapsulated artificial neural networks of multilayer perceptron type. The task of analyzing and restoring the boundaries of impact factors is included in the list of tasks of the scientific and applied problem of software complexes support automation. The object of the study is the process of analyzing an impact factors software complexes support automation. The subject of the study are methods and means of modeling the processes analysis an impact factors of software complexes support automation, based on the theory of Petri nets in general and colored Petri nets in particular. The purpose of the study is to develop a colored Petri nets based model for analysis an impact factors of the software complexes support automation. To achieve the set goal, the following research tasks were solved. A block diagram of the algorithm of the software complexes support automation impact factors analysis has been presented, as well as a description of the supported objects subjective perception model encapsulated by an artificial neural network of the multilayer perceptron type. A detailed description of the step-by-step functioning of the developed model within all possible scenarios is given as well. A reachability tree of the developed model is constructed, demonstrating the reachability and finiteness of each of the states of the presented colored Petri nets based models. A study of dynamics of the developed colored Petri nets based models functioning processes has been conducted as well as the depicted results of this study. As an example of software complex support automation impact factors analysis, – the applied practical problem of identifying the dominant impact factor among the set of impact factors of the software complex support team has been solved.

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colored Petri nets
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