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This paper introduces a language for the description of systems with concurrency, and presents a formal definition of its semantics. The language is based on Delta and the semantic model is an extension of Petri nets with a data part and with expressions attached to transitions and to places.
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Jensen, K., Kyng, M., Madsen, O.L. (1979). A Petri net definition of a system description language. In: Kahn, G. (eds) Semantics of Concurrent Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022479
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