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The synthesis problem of Petri nets

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The synthesis problem of concurrent systems is the problem of synthesizing a concurrent system model from sequential observations. The paper studies the synthesis problem for elementary Petri nets and transition systems. A characterization of the class of transition systems which correspond to elementary Petri nets is proven. It is shown how to generate all elementary Petri nets corresponding to a given transition system. If there is any such elementary Petri net, it is proven that there always exists a small one which has only polynomially many elements in the size of the transition system.

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  1. Institut für Informatik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099, Berlin, Germany

    Jörg Desel & Wolfgang Reisig

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Desel, J., Reisig, W. The synthesis problem of Petri nets. Acta Informatica 33, 297–315 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002360050046

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