Modelling and measuring complexity of traditional and ancient technologies using Petri nets.

ABSTRACT: Technologies and their production systems are used by archaeologists and anthropologists to study complexity of socio-technical systems. However, there are several issues that hamper agreement about what constitutes complexity and how we can systematically compare the complexity of production systems. In this work, we propose a novel approach to assess the behavioural and structural complexity of production systems using Petri nets. Petri nets are well-known formal models commonly used in, for example, biological and business process modelling, as well as software engineering. The use of Petri nets overcomes several obstacles of current approaches in archaeology and anthropology, such as the incompatibility of the intrinsic sequential logic of the available methods with inherently non-sequ

SUBMITTER: Fajardo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9707756 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature