SONCraft: A Tool for Construction, Simulation, and Analysis of Structured Occurrence Nets

Abstract

This paper presents SONCraft - an open source tool for editing, simulating, and analysing Structured Occurrence Nets (SONs), which is a Petri net-based formalism for modelling the behaviour of complex evolving systems. The tool is implemented as a Java plug-in within the Workcraft platform, which is a flexible framework for the development and analysis of Interpreted Graph Models. SONCraft provides an easy to use graphical interface that facilitates model entry, supports interactive visual simulation, and allows the use of a set of analytical tools. We give an overview of SONCraft functionality and architecture.