SCOPE: A Situation Calculus Ontology of Petri Nets

  • Authors:
  • Xing Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • Semantic Technologies Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

By axiomatizing the semantics of Petri nets as a first-order (mostly) formal ontology called SCOPE, we propose in this paper a framework for the analysis of the structural and dynamical properties of Petri nets. More precisely, SCOPE is built as a Basic Action Theory in Reiter's version of situation calculus. In addition, we show the satisfiability of SCOPE, by virtue of the Relative Satisfiability Theorem. Fundamental structural and dynamical properties of Petri nets described in SCOPE are also presented, with two example uses of SCOPE given.