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I'll see what I have when I get back to my computer. In the mean time, the magic words to find interesting things are something like "colored timed petri-net" A lot of it will probably be about logistics, but sending a shipment and calling a service is mostly the same thing, might have to squint a bit.

Toolwise, there are the ProM tools (www.promtools.org), which although they are mostly for mining process networks from logs can also be used for simulation and analysis. A bit of a warning though: It's a rather strange piece of software, not very stable (for me), but it has a ton of modules related to process mining and simulation.

Lots of the petri-net stuff available is generally a bit dated, as although it's a useful, and quite simple formalism, it only ever appears to have caught on in somewhat niche areas.



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