Abstract
Nets are being taken seriously as one of the tools which might turn software development into an engineering discipline. However, there are two different viewpoints on the role they have to play:
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as a notation for recording and presenting the analyst/designer’s evolving understanding of the system behaviour and
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as a means of defining the semantics of the concurrency/communication primitives of system design languages so that critical adequacy properties (liveness, safeness etc.) of systems designed in such languages may be determined analytically.
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Cohen, B. (1982). Overview on Topic 2: Programming Languages and Software Engineering. In: Girault, C., Reisig, W. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68353-4_5
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