Coloured Petri net

Coloured Petri nets preserve useful properties of Petri nets and at the same time extend the initial formalism to allow the distinction between tokens.

[1] Coloured Petri nets allow tokens to have a data value attached to them.

This attached data value is called the token color.

This type is called the color set of the place.

A well-known program for working with coloured Petri nets is cpntools.