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A netchart is basically a Petri net whose places are located at some process and whose transitions are labeled by message sequence charts (MSCs). Two recent papers showed independently that any globally-cooperative high-level MSC corresponds to the behaviors of some communicating finite-state machine — or equivalently a netchart. These difficult results rely either on Thomas’ graph acceptors or Zielonka’s construction of asynchronous automata. In this paper we give a direct and self-contained synthesis of netcharts from globally-cooperative high-level MSCs by means of a simpler unfolding procedure.
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Baudru, N., Morin, R. (2006). The Synthesis Problem of Netcharts. In: Donatelli, S., Thiagarajan, P.S. (eds) Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency - ICATPN 2006. ICATPN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11767589_6
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