Nets As a Design Method

Various types of nets were introduced in Chaps. 1–4. It was shown on the basis of simple examples how nets can be used to represent the structure and function of different kinds of systems. Obviously, this does not tell us what procedure we need to follow in specific cases in order to succeed in producing an adequate representation of a real or planned system with as little effort as possible. Just as knowing the individual commands of a program language does not enable us to write complicated programs, the ’net language’ cannot really be used efficiently without adhering to systematic design procedures.