Modeling and evaluation with object stochastic activity networks

Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a stochastic generalization of Petri nets, SAN models have been used for performance, dependability and performability evaluation and are supported by several powerful modeling tools. We have recently introduced object stochastic activity networks (OSANs) to overcome some restrictions of these models. OSANs integrate the concepts of object-orientation into SAN models. Elements of OSANs and their submodels are defined as classes. In this paper, we briefly introduce OSANs and SANBuilder tool for modeling and evaluation with these models.