Efficiency of asynchronous systems that communicate asynchronously

  • Authors:
  • Walter Vogler

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN'00 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Application and theory of petri nets
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A parallel composition is introduced that combines nets (regarded as system components) by merging so-called interface places; the novel feature is a flexible typing of these places, which formulates assumptions a component makes about its environment. Based on a testing scenario, a faster-than relation is defined and shown to support modular construction, since it is a precongruence for parallel composition, hiding and renaming. The faster-than relation is characterized without reference to tests, and this characterization is used to compare the temporal effciency of some examples.