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This article is intended as a reference guide to various notions of monoidal categories and their associated string diagrams. It is hoped that this will be useful not just to mathematicians, but also to physicists, computer scientists, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Peter Selinger

Synthesis automatically generates a process model from a behavioural specification. When the target model is a Petri net, we address synthesis through region theory. Researchers have studied region-based synthesis extensively for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Robin Bergenthum , Jakub Kovář

We present a concurrent operational Petri net semantics for the join-calculus, a process calculus for specifying concurrent and distributed systems. There often is a gap between system specifications and the actual implementations caused by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Stephan Mennicke

We show that there are $\Sigma_3^0$-complete languages of infinite words accepted by non-deterministic Petri nets with B\"uchi acceptance condition, or equivalently by B\"uchi blind counter automata. This shows that omega-languages accepted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Olivier Finkel , Michał Skrzypczak

This paper introduces the Token Space framework, a novel mathematical construct designed to enhance the interpretability and effectiveness of deep learning models through the application of category theory. By establishing a categorical…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Wuming Pan

We provide a complete set of identities for the symmetric monoidal category, TOF, generated by the Toffoli gate and computational ancillary bits. We do so by demonstrating that the functor which evaluates circuits on total points, is an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-30 J. R. B. Cockett , Cole Comfort

Non-interference, in transitive or intransitive form, is defined here over unbounded (Place/Transition) Petri nets. The definitions are adaptations of similar, well-accepted definitions introduced earlier in the framework of labelled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Eike Best , Philippe Darondeau , Roberto Gorrieri

The paper introduces a novel framework based on category theory to enhance the explainability of artificial intelligence systems, particularly focusing on word embeddings. Key topics include the construction of categories $\mathcal{L}_T$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ares Fabregat-Hernández , Javier Palanca , Vicent Botti

Reaction networks, or equivalently Petri nets, are a general framework for describing processes in which entities of various kinds interact and turn into other entities. In chemistry, where the reactions are assigned "rate constants", any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 John C. Baez , Blake S. Pollard

Structure-preserving bisimilarity is a truly concurrent behavioral equivalence for finite Petri nets, which relates markings (of the same size only) generating the same causal nets, hence also the same partial orders of events. The process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Roberto Gorrieri

We study mean ergodicity in amenable operator semigroups and establish the connection to the convergence of strong and weak ergodic nets. We then use these results in order to show the convergence of uniform families of ergodic nets that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Marco Schreiber

When considering distributed systems, it is a central issue how to deal with interactions between components. In this paper, we investigate the paradigms of synchronous and asynchronous interaction in the context of distributed systems. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-05 Rob van Glabbeek , Ursula Goltz , Jens-Wolfhard Schicke

This paper studies questions of coherence and strictification related to self-similarity - the identity $S\cong S\otimes S$ in a (semi-)monoidal category. Based on Saavedra's theory of units, we first demonstrate that strict self-similarity…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Peter Hines

Developing algorithms for distributed systems is an error-prone task. Formal models like Petri nets with transits and Petri games can prevent errors when developing such algorithms. Petri nets with transits allow us to follow the data flow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Manuel Gieseking , Jesko Hecking-Harbusch , Ann Yanich

Complex systems of systems (SoS) are characterized by multiple interconnected subsystems. Typically, each subsystem is designed and analyzed using methodologies and formalisms that are specific to the particular subsystem model of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Alberto Speranzon , David I. Spivak , Srivatsan Varadarajan

Interaction nets are a graphical formalism inspired by Linear Logic proof-nets often used for studying higher order rewriting e.g. \Beta-reduction. Traditional presentations of interaction nets are based on graph theory and rely on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Marc de Falco

We give a new construction of the algebraic $K$-theory of small permutative categories that preserves multiplicative structure, and therefore allows us to give a unified treatment of rings, modules, and algebras in both the input and…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2009-09-29 A. D. Elmendorf , M. A. Mandell

This paper presents a new formal method for verification of quantum communication protocols. By extending the symbolic system of Petri nets, we can define quantum pure states in Petri-net settings. Therefore, it is possible to emerge a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Sheng Zhang , Yonghui Ma , Chunning Meng , Haiping Wang

We prove that the well-known (strong) fully-concurrent bisimilarity and the novel i-causal-net bisimilarity, which is a sligtlhy coarser variant of causal-net bisimilarity, are decidable for finite bounded Petri nets. The proofs are based…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Arnaldo Cesco , Roberto Gorrieri

We investigate bisimulation equivalence on Petri nets under durational semantics. Our motivation was to verify the conjecture that in durational setting, the bisimulation equivalence checking problem becomes more tractable than in ordinary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Slawomir Lasota , Marcin Poturalski