Relevant Timed Schedules/Clock Vectors for Constructing Time Petri Net Reachability Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Hanifa Boucheneb;Kamel Barkaoui

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire VeriForm, Department of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3A7;Laboratoire CEDRIC, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider here the time Petri nets (the TPN model) and its state space abstractions. We show that only some timed schedules/clock vectors (one per enabled transition) of the clock/firing domains are relevant to construct reachability graphs for the TPN. Moreover, we prove formally that the resulting graphs are smaller than the TPN reachability graphs proposed in the literature. Furthermore, these results establish a relation between dense time and discrete time analysis of time Petri nets and allow also improving discrete time analysis by considering only some elements of the clock/firing domains.