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Deciding Life-Cycle Inheritance on Petri Nets

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Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003 (ICATPN 2003)

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One of the key issues of object-oriented modeling is inheritance. It allows for the definition of a subclass that inherits features from some super-class. When considering the dynamic behavior of objects, as captured by their life cycles, there is no general agreement on the meaning of inheritance. Basten and Van der Aalst introduced the notion of life-cycle inheritance for this purpose. Unfortunately, the search tree needed for deciding life-cycle inheritance is in general prohibitively large. This paper presents a backtracking algorithm to decide life-cycle inheritance on Petri nets. The algorithm uses structural properties of both the base life cycle and the potential sub life cycle to prune the search tree. Test cases show that the results are promising.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    H. M. W. Verbeek & T. Basten

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  1. Faculty of Technology and Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. Computer Science Department Parallel Systems Group, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

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Verbeek, H.M.W., Basten, T. (2003). Deciding Life-Cycle Inheritance on Petri Nets. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Best, E. (eds) Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003. ICATPN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2679. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44919-1_7

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