On the step explosion problem

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Roch;Karsten Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN'06 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In many well-known extensions of place-transition nets, including read arcs, inhibitory arcs, reset arcs, priorities and signal arcs, it is sometimes possible to reach a marking through firing a step of transitions which cannot be reached through firing a sequence of single transitions. For state space analysis, it is thus recommendable to consider, in each state, all steps of transitions for firing. Since the number of activated steps may be exponential in the number of transitions, we have, in addition to the well-known state explosion problem, another explosion which we call step explosion. In this paper, we present an approach for alleviating step explosion. We furthermore discuss the joint application of our method with partial order reduction and in the context of CTL model checking.