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Petri nets, commutative context-free grammars, and basic parallel processes

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Esparza, J. (1995). Petri nets, commutative context-free grammars, and basic parallel processes. In: Reichel, H. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 965. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60249-6_54

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