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On occurrence net semantics for petri nets with contacts

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This paper is concerned with defining causal (non sequential) behavior of Petri nets via occurrence nets. Conventionally occurrence nets semantics is defined for contact-free Petri nets. In [8] E.Smith proposed non sequential semantics for nets with contacts. We present an alternative definition of occurrence nets semantic for nets with contacts, which gives a clear visual representation of concurrent process flow and maintains the correlation between causal and interleaving semantics of Petri nets.

This research is supported by the Russian Fund for Basic Research (Project No. 96-01-01717) and INTAS-RFBR (grant 95-0378)

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Bogdan S. Chlebus Ludwik Czaja

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Lomazova, I.A. (1997). On occurrence net semantics for petri nets with contacts. In: Chlebus, B.S., Czaja, L. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036194

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