Authors: J. I. Latorre-Biel, E. Jiménez-Macías, M. Pérez de la Parte, F. J. Leiva-Lázaro, E. Martínez-Cámara, J. Blanco-Fernández
A Petri net model of a facility for cultivating common mushroom (Agaricus Bisporus) is presented and implemented in the development of a decision support system for the operation of the facility. The formalism of the compound Petri net has been chosen for its ability for including parameters in the incidence matrices of the model. The decision support system is based in the solution of an optimization problem by means of a metaheuristics combined con simulations of the model of the system. The implementation of the system may lead to an improvement in the performance of the facility, while reducing the required resources, the produced wastes and the costs involved in the procurement of raw materials.