Petri nets based on Lawvere theories

Autor: Jade Master
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science. 30:833-864
ISSN: 1469-8072
0960-1295
DOI: 10.1017/s0960129520000262
Popis: We give a definition of $\mathsf{Q}$-net, a generalization of Petri nets based on a Lawvere theory $\mathsf{Q}$, for which many existing variants of Petri nets are a special case. This definition is functorial with respect to change in Lawvere theory, and we exploit this to explore the relationships between different kinds of $\mathsf{Q}$-nets. To justify our definition of $\mathsf{Q}$-net, we construct a family of adjunctions for each Lawvere theory explicating the way in which $\mathsf{Q}$-nets present free models of $\mathsf{Q}$ in $\mathsf{Cat}$. This gives a functorial description of the operational semantics for an arbitrary category of $\mathsf{Q}$-nets. We show how this can be used to construct the semantics for Petri nets, pre-nets, integer nets, and elementary net systems.
32 pages
Databáze: OpenAIRE