Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Branching processes of Petri nets
Acta Informatica
A stubborn attack on state explosion
Formal Methods in System Design - Special issue on computer-aided verification: special methods I
A technique of state space search based on unfolding
Formal Methods in System Design - Special issue on computer-aided verification (based on CAV'92 workshop)
Partial order verification with PEP
POMIV '96 Proceedings of the DIMACS workshop on Partial order methods in verification
Smodels - An Implementation of the Stable Model and Well-Founded Semantics for Normal LP
LPNMR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
An Improvement of McMillan's Unfolding Algorithm
TACAs '96 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems
Using Unfoldings to Avoid the State Explosion Problem in the Verification of Asynchronous Circuits
CAV '92 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computer Aided Verification
CAV '97 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Deadlock Checking Using Net Unfoldings
CAV '97 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Real-Time Systems Design with PEP
TACAS '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Directed Unfolding of Petri Nets
Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency I
A purpose-directed reachability analysis approach
TELE-INFO'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Telecommunications and informatics
An approach to unfolding asynchronous communication protocols
FM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Formal Methods
Unfolding Based Algorithms for the Reachability Problem
Fundamenta Informaticae - Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P'2000)
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McMillan has presented a deadlock detection method for Petri nets based on finite complete prefixes (i.e. net unfoldings). The basic idea is to transform the PSPACE-complete deadlock detection problem for a 1-safe Petri net into a potentially exponentially larger NP-complete problem of deadlock detection for a finite complete prefix. McMillan suggested a branch-and-bound algorithm for deadlock detection in prefixes. Recently, Melzer and Rmer have presented another approach, which is based on solving mixed integer programming problems. In this work it is shown that instead of using mixed integer programming, a constraint-based logic programming framework can be employed, and a linear-size translation from deadlock detection in prefixes into the problem of finding a stable model of a logic program is presented. As a side result also such a translation for solving the reachability problem is devised. Experimental results are given from an implementation combining the prefix generator of the PEP-tool, the translation, and an implementation of a constraint-based logic programming framework, the smodels system. The experiments show the proposed approach to be quite competitive, when compared to the approaches of McMillan and Melzer/Rmer.