Complexity results for elementary hornets

  • Authors:
  • Michael Köhler-Bußmeier;Frank Heitmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Department for Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Department for Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • PETRI NETS'13 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we study the complexity of Hornets, an algebraic extension of object nets. We define a restricted class: safe, elementary Hornets, to guarantee finite state spaces. We have shown previously that the reachability problem for this class requires at least exponential space, which is a major increase when compared to safe, elementary object nets, which require polynomial space. Here, we show how a safe, elementary Hornets can be simulated by a safe Eos, which establishes an upper bound for the complexity, since we know that that the reachability problem for safe Eos is PSpace-complete.