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We propose $\chi$-net, an intrinsically interpretable architecture combining the compositional multilinear structure of tensor networks with the expressivity and efficiency of deep neural networks. $\chi$-nets retain equal accuracy compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis , Geraint A. Wiggins , Jose Oramas

We investigate the problem asking whether the intersection of a context-free language (CFL) and a Petri net language (PNL) is empty. Our contribution to solve this long-standing problem which relates, for instance, to the reachability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Pierre Ganty

We review some of the endeavors in trying to connect Petri nets with free symmetric monoidal categories. We give a list of requirement such connections should respect if they are meant to be useful for practical/implementation purposes. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Fabrizio Genovese , Alex Gryzlov , Jelle Herold , Marco Perone , Erik Post , André Videla

In many kinds of infinite-state systems, the coverability problem has significantly lower complexity than the reachability problem. In order to delineate the border of computational hardness between coverability and reachability, we propose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yousef Shakiba , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Georg Zetzsche

Petri nets are a popular formalism for modeling and analyzing distributed systems. Tokens in Petri net models can represent the control flow state or resources produced/consumed by transition firings. We define a resource as a part (a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Irina Lomazova , Vladimir Bashkin , Petr Jančar

Conformance checking techniques aim to provide diagnostics on the conformity between process models and event data. Conventional methods, such as trace alignments, assume strict total ordering of events, leading to inaccuracies when…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ariba Siddiqui , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Daniel Schuster

Reachability logic has been applied to $\mathbb{K}$ rewrite-rule-based language definitions as a language-generic logic of programs. To be able to verify not just code but also distributed system designs, a new rewrite-theory-generic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Stephen Skeirik , Andrei Stefanescu , José Meseguer

The theory of Petri Nets provides a general framework to specify the behaviors of real-time reactive systems and Time Petri Nets were introduced to take also temporal specifications into account. We present in this paper a forward…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Guillaume Gardey , Olivier H. Roux , Olivier F. Roux

Robust and comprehensive characterization of the topological properties of complex networks requires the adoption of several respective measurements, among which the node degree has special importance. In the present work, we provide an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-11 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Solutions proposed for the longstanding problem of automatic decomposition of Petri nets into concurrent processes, as well as methods developed in Grenoble for the automatic conversion of safe Petri nets to NUPNs (Nested-Unit Petri Nets),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Hubert Garavel

Boolean Petri nets equipped with nop allow places and transitions to be independent by being related by nop. We characterize for any fixed natural number g the computational complexity of synthesizing nop-equipped Boolean Petri nets from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Ronny Tredup

In this paper a constructive method to determine and compute probabilistic reachable and invariant sets for linear discrete-time systems, excited by a stochastic disturbance, is presented. The samples of the disturbance signal are not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Mirko Fiacchini , Teodoro Alamo

The theory of free-choice Petri nets is an established field, initiated in the 1970s by Commoner and Hack at MIT. We revisit well-formed free-choice nets (those admitting markings that are both live and bounded) and provide a new…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Petr Jancar , Eike Best , Raymond Devillers , Matej Ostadal

In previous studies, several methods have been developed to synthesise Petri nets from labelled transition systems (LTS), often with structural constraints on the net and on the LTS. In this paper, we focus on Weighted Marked Graphs (WMGs)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Raymond Devillers , Evgeny Erofeev , Thomas Hujsa

Real-world applications such as the internet of things, wireless sensor networks, smart grids, transportation networks, communication networks, social networks, and computer grid systems are typically modeled as network structures. Network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Wei-Chang Yeh

In order to speed up the synthesis of Petri nets from labelled transition systems, a divide and conquer strategy consists in defining decompositions of labelled transition systems, such that each component is synthesisable iff so is the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Raymond Devillers

Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS), equivalent to Petri nets, are a well-established model of concurrency. The central algorithmic challenge in VASS is the reachability problem: is there a run from a given starting state and counter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dmitry Chistikov , Wojciech Czerwiński , Filip Mazowiecki , Łukasz Orlikowski , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Karol Węgrzycki

Petri nets are a formalism for modelling and reasoning about the behaviour of distributed systems. Recently, a reversible approach to Petri nets, Reversing Petri Nets (RPN), has been proposed, allowing transitions to be reversed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Anna Philippou , Kyriaki Psara , Harun Siljak

J.L. Krivine developed a new method based on realizability to construct models of set theory where the axiom of choice fails. We attempt to recreate his results in classical settings, i.e. symmetric extensions. We also provide a new…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Asaf Karagila

Pearl's Causal Hierarchy (PCH) is a central framework for reasoning about probabilistic, interventional, and counterfactual statements, yet the satisfiability problem for PCH formulas is computationally intractable in almost all classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Robert Ganian , Marlene Gründel , Simon Wietheger