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Steps and Coverability in Inhibitor Nets

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Henriette Kleijn, Professor Maciej KoutnyORCiD

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Abstract

For Petri nets with inhibitor arcs, properties like reachability and boundedness are undecidable and hence constructing a coverability tree is not feasible. Here it is investigated to what extent the coverability tree construction might be adapted for Petri nets with inhibitor arcs. Emphasis is given to the (a priori) step sequence semantics which cannot always be simulated by firing sequences. All this leads to the notion of a step coverability tree which may be of use for the analysis of the step behaviour of certain subclasses of Petri nets with inhibitor arcs.


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Author(s): Kleijn J, Koutny M

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2008

Pages: 30

Print publication date: 01/09/2008

Source Publication Date: September 2008

Report Number: 1118

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1118.pdf


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