A Language-Based Comparison of Extensions of Petri Nets with and without Whole-Place Operations

  • Authors:
  • Parosh Aziz Abdulla;Giorgio Delzanno;Laurent Begin

  • Affiliations:
  • Uppsala University, Sweden;Università di Genova, Italy;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • LATA '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We use language theory to study the relative expressiveness of infinite-state models laying in between finite automata and Turing machines. We focus here our attention on well structured transition systems that extend Petri nets. For these models, we study the impact of whole-place operations like transfers and resets on nets with indistinguishable tokens and with tokens that carry data over an infinite domain. Our measure of expressiveness is defined in terms of the class of languages recognized by a given model using coverability of a configuration as accepting condition.