Active Index System

The Active Index is an extended Petri net model. Instead of having fixed connections between places and transitions, the active index allows index cells to be instantiated as they are needed.

Therefore, one index cell can send a message to another index cell type. If no appropriate index cell instance exists, an index cell will be instantiated.


For example, if an enumerator index cell wants to create several hundred solution index cells, it can send messages to instantiate such solution index cells.

In what follows, we will first give the formal definitions of an active index cell, and then present an example of a simple active index system for distance learning.