On persistent reachability in Petri nets

  • Authors:
  • Kamila Barylska;ŁUkasz Mikulski;Edward Ochmanski

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland and School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE ...;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jana Kazimierza ...

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The notion of persistency, based on the rule ''no action can disable another one'' is one of the classical notions in concurrency theory. In this paper, we deal with arbitrary place/transition nets, but concentrate on their persistent computations. It leads to an interesting decision problem: Is a given marking reachable with a persistent run? In order to study the persistent-reachability problem we define a class of nets, called nonviolence nets. We show that inhibitor nets can be simulated by the nonviolence nets (and vice versa), thus the latter are computationally Turing powerful and reachability and coverability problems are undecidable in the class of the nonviolence nets.