Measuring Network Centrality in Petri Nets

Network Centrality (NC) is for the analysis of static network to find out to which degree an element is central to a network. This paper presents three NC functions that are newly added to the simulator General-purpose Petri Net Simulator (GPenSIM). With these new functions, in addition to the usual performance analysis of a discrete-event system via a Petri net model, supplementary information about NC of the elements can also be found, paving an overall (static + dynamic) analysis of the system.