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Causality Semantics of Petri Nets with Weighted Inhibitor Arcs

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A causality semantics for weighted Place/Transition nets with weighted inhibitor arcs (PTI-nets) is proposed, by extending the standard approach based on the process semantics given through net unfolding and occurrence nets. It is demonstrated how processes corresponding to step sequences of PTI-nets can be constructed, and a nonalgorithmic (axiomatic) characterisation is given of the processes that can be obtained in this way. Moreover, a framework is established allowing to separately consider behaviours, processes and causality, in order to facilitate the discussion of their mutual consistency for different Petri net classes.

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  1. LIACS, Leiden University, P.O.Box 9512, NL-2300, Leiden, RA, The Netherlands

    H. C. M. Kleijn

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    M. Koutny

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Botanicka 68a, 60200, Brno, Czech Republic

    Luboš Brim , Mojmír Křetínský  & Antonín Kučera ,  & 

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava (VSB), 17. listopadu 15, 70833, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Petr Jančar

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Kleijn, H.C.M., Koutny, M. (2002). Causality Semantics of Petri Nets with Weighted Inhibitor Arcs. In: Brim, L., Křetínský, M., Kučera, A., Jančar, P. (eds) CONCUR 2002 — Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2421. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45694-5_35

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