Petri Net Primer: A Compendium on the Core Model, Analysis, and Synthesis

Eike Best

Born in 1951 in Germany, graduated in Informatik in 1974 at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe. He has joined projects led by Peter Lauer and Brian Randell at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1975-1981) where he started to cooperate with Raymond Devillers. He earned his PhD in 1982 at Newcastle and a Habilitation degree at the University of Bonn in 1988 while working at Carl Adam Petri's Institute. He has taught a range of computer science courses as a professor in Paderborn, Hildesheim, and Oldenburg (from 1996), and he has a research and project leadership record, with an emphasis on semantics and Petri nets.

Raymond Devillers

Born in 1945 in Belgium, graduated in Mathematics and Physics, he got a PhD Thesis in 1974 on the use of games for deadlock prevention at the University of Brussels. During a postdoctorate stay in Newcastle upon Tyne, he met Eike Best, start of a long-lasting cooperation. After a job at the Computer Center of the ULB, he started a professorial career at the same university, where he taught many different courses in practical and theoretical computer sciences. He conducted many researches, in particular about the analysis and synthesis of Petri nets, before and after his retirement in 2010.

Eike Best
出生於1951年的德國，於1974年在卡爾斯魯厄工業大學獲得資訊學學位。他在紐卡斯爾大學（1975-1981）參與了Peter Lauer和Brian Randell領導的項目，並開始與Raymond Devillers合作。他於1982年在紐卡斯爾獲得博士學位，並於1988年在波恩大學獲得博士後資格，同時在Carl Adam Petri的研究所工作。他曾在帕德博恩、希爾德斯海姆和奧爾登堡（從1996年起）擔任教授，並在計算機科學領域進行研究和項目領導，尤其注重語義和Petri網絡。

Raymond Devillers
出生於1945年的比利時，數學和物理學畢業，於1974年在布魯塞爾大學以遊戲在阻塞預防中的應用為題獲得博士學位。在紐卡斯爾大學進行博士後研究期間，他遇到了Eike Best，開始了長期的合作關係。在布魯塞爾自由大學的計算機中心工作後，他在同一所大學開始了教授職業生涯，教授多種實踐和理論計算機科學課程。他在退休前後進行了許多關於Petri網絡的分析和合成的研究，並於2010年退休。