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Modern window-based user interfaces are actually a special kind of reactive system, and Petri nets may be fruitfully used to design such user — computer dialogues. This paper describes a software engineering tool aimed at supporting the use of high-level Petri nets for the specification, design and implementation of user interfaces in an event-driven interface system. We assess the rationale for the use of Petri nets in such a perspective. We then detail the object-oriented software architecture of the environment, and present an original algorithm for interpreting high-level Petri nets in an event-driven environment.
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Bastide, R., Palanque, P. (1995). A Petri net based environment for the design of event-driven interfaces. In: De Michelis, G., Diaz, M. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets 1995. ICATPN 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60029-9_34
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