Evolutive prototyping of heterogeneous distributed systems using hierarchical algebraic Petri nets

This paper presents several extensions to a new evolutive prototyping process, called object-oriented mixed prototyping. Our application field is complex distributed systems modelled by the means of CO-OPN (concurrent object-oriented Petri nets), a hierarchical algebraic Petri net language. CO-OPN being a strong synchronous language, we also show an original implementation scheme for its high-level communication model in heterogeneous wide-area networks.