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On the Analysis of Petri Nets and their Synthesis fromProcess Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2003

Ludwik Czaja
Ludwik Czaja*
Affiliation:
Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected].
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Abstract

Processes in Place/Transition (P/T) nets are defined inductively by a peculiar numbering of place occurrences. Along with an associative sequential composition called catenation and a neutral process, a monoid of processes is obtained. The power algebra of this monoid contains all process languages with appropriate operations on them. Hence the problems of analysis and synthesis, analogous to those in the formal languages and automata theory, arise. Here, the analysis problem is: for a given P/T net with an initial marking find the set of all processes the net may evoke. The synthesis problem is: given a process language L decide if there exists a marked net whose evolutions (represented by processes) are collected in L and, in the positive case, find such net and its initial marking. The problems are posed and given a general solution.

Keywords

Petri netprocess languageanalysis and synthesis of nets.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 17 - 38
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© EDP Sciences, 2003

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