4. Conclusions

This chapter aims to briefly review the applications of the Petri nets in science and engineering. It not pretends to be a deep review of the applications with complete detail and mathematical foundation. Rather, the objective is to provide an illustrative introduction to Petri nets and its potential applications, as intuitive as possible, avoiding the use of complex mathematical notation and formulation. The focus of this chapter was in the graphical nature of the Petri nets and the intuition about them, and with some emphasis in its mathematical foundation. Also, the intention is that this chapter serves as an introduction to this book entitled Petri Nets in Science and Engineering. The authors hope you find this book illustrative for your different activities in science and engineering.

Sincerely,

R. Campos-Rodriguez, M. Alcaraz-Mejia.
