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On the Use of SPIN for Studying the Behavior of Nested Petri Nets

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Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications (SBMF 2013)

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Nested Petri nets have been applied for modelling interaction protocols, mobility, adaptive systems and interorganizational workflows. However, few results have been reported on the use of automated tools for analyzing the behavior of these nets. In this paper we present a translation from a subclass of recursive nested Petri nets into PROMELA and explain how some properties of these nets can be studied using SPIN model checker.

This work has been supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under the grant 2010/52505-0.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil

    Mirtha Lina Fernández Venero & Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva

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Fernández Venero, M.L., Soares Corrêa da Silva, F. (2013). On the Use of SPIN for Studying the Behavior of Nested Petri Nets. In: Iyoda, J., de Moura, L. (eds) Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications. SBMF 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41071-0_7

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