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A Connector Algebra for P/T Nets Interactions

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CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2011)

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A quite flourishing research thread in the recent literature on component-based system is concerned with the algebraic properties of various kinds of connectors for defining well-engineered systems. In a recent paper, an algebra of stateless connectors was presented that consists of five kinds of basic connectors, plus their duals. The connectors can be composed in series or in parallel and employing a simple 1-state buffer they can model the coordination language Reo. Pawel Sobocinski employed essentially the same stateful extension of connector algebra to provide semantics-preserving mutual encoding with some sort of elementary Petri nets with boundaries. In this paper we show how the tile model can be used to extend Sobocinski’s approach to deal with P/T nets, thus paving the way towards more expressive connector models.

Research supported by the EU Integrated Project 257414 ASCENS, the Italian MIUR Project IPODS (PRIN 2008), ANPCyT Project BID-PICT-2008-00319, and UBACyT 20020090300122.

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    Roberto Bruni & Ugo Montanari

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Bruni, R., Melgratti, H., Montanari, U. (2011). A Connector Algebra for P/T Nets Interactions. In: Katoen, JP., König, B. (eds) CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23217-6_21

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