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International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency

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Model Checking Concurrency and Causality

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We consider a spectrum of properties proposed in [14], that is related to causality and concurrency between a pair of given transitions in a place/transition net. For each of these properties, we ask whether it can be verified using an ordinary, interleaving based, model checker. With a systematic approach based on two constructions, we reduce 75% of the properties in the spectrum to a reachability problem. We have to leave the remaining 25% as open problems.

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Wolf, K. (2017). Model Checking Concurrency and Causality. In: van der Aalst, W., Best, E. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency. PETRI NETS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57861-3_11

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