Catalytic petri nets are turing complete

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Ciobanu;G. Michele Pinna

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Cagliari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • LATA'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a class of Petri nets, called catalytic Petri nets, and a suitable firing strategy where transitions are fired only when they use tokens from specific places, called catalytic places. By establishing a one-to-one relationship with catalytic membrane systems, we can prove that the class of catalytic Petri nets with at least two catalytic places is Turing complete.