Deficiency Zero Petri Nets and Product Form

  • Authors:
  • Jean Mairesse;Hoang-Thach Nguyen

  • Affiliations:
  • LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris Cedex 13 75205;LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris Cedex 13 75205

  • Venue:
  • PETRI NETS '09 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Consider a Markovian Petri net with race policy. The marking process has a "product form" stationary distribution if the probability of viewing a given marking can be decomposed as the product over places of terms depending only on the local marking. First we observe that the Deficiency Zero Theorem of Feinberg, developped for chemical reaction networks, provides a structural and simple sufficient condition for the existence of a product form. In view of this, we study the classical subclass of bounded free-choice nets. Roughly, we show that the only such Petri nets having a product form are the state machines which can alternatively be viewed as Jackson networks.