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Some Decidability Results for Nested Petri Nets

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Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI 1999)

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Nested Petri nets are Petri nets using other Petri nets as tokens, thereby allowing easy description of hierarchical systems. Their nested structure makes some important verification problems undecidable (reachability, boundedness, . . . ) while some other problems remain decidable (termination, inevitability, . . . ).

This work was mainly prepared during the stay of the first author at Lab. Specification & Verification in June–July 1998, and was partly supported by INTAS-RFBR (Grant 95-0378) and the Russian Fund for Basic Research (Project No. 96-01-01717)

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  1. Program Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 152140, Russia

    Irina A. Lomazova

  2. Lab. Specification & Verification, ENS de Cachan & CNRS UMR 8643, 61, av. Pdt. Wilson, 94235, Cachan Cedex, France

    Philippe Schnoebelen

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Bldg. 244, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

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  2. Computer Science Department, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Manfred Broy

  3. A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, av. Ac. Lavrentyev 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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Lomazova, I.A., Schnoebelen, P. (2000). Some Decidability Results for Nested Petri Nets. In: Bjøner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1755. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46562-6_18

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