Abstract
Petri nets are frequently composed of given nets. Literature suggests a lot of different composition operators, for different purposes and different classes of Petri nets. Formal definitions are frequently surprisingly technical, not matching the intuitive elegance of their graphical counterpart.
We provide the formal framework for a simple composition operator, adequate for many classes of Petri net applications. It requires a minimum of fairly intuitive technicalities from its users and readers. The operator furthermore is associative, thus meeting the minimal algebraic requirements when composing a large system out of several smaller ones.
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Reisig, W. (2009). Simple Composition of Nets. In: Franceschinis, G., Wolf, K. (eds) Applications and Theory of Petri Nets. PETRI NETS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02424-5_4
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