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The PEP tool can be considered to be one of the most widely distributed Petri net based tools. A continuously increasing functionality and an adequate graphical user interface may have been good reasons for its acceptance. Currently the tool contains approximately 500,000 lines of source code, and supports (to the best of our knowledge) the widest variety of input formalisms and verification methods of all verification tools. We briefly review the most recent developments. Ftp-able versions of the tool and PEP related papers are available via http://theoretica.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~pep.
PEP has been a joint project between the ‘Universität Hildesheim’, the ‘Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg’ and the ‘Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’ which has been financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation).
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Grahlmann, B. (1998). The State of PEP. In: Haeberer, A.M. (eds) Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. AMAST 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1548. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49253-4_37
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