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We introduce a technique for reachability analysis of Time-Basic (TB) Petri nets, a powerful formalism for real- time systems where time constraints are expressed as intervals, representing possible transition firing times, whose bounds are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Carlo Bellettini , Lorenzo Capra

We propose a reachability verification technique that combines the Petri net state equation (a linear algebraic overapproximation of the set of reachable states) with the concept of counterexample guided abstraction refinement. In essence,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Karsten Wolf , Harro Wimmel

Verifying correctness of deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging. We study a generic reachability problem for feed-forward DNNs which, for a given set of inputs to the network and a Lipschitz-continuous function over its outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska

We consider a variant of VASS extended with integer counters, denoted VASS+Z. These are automata equipped with N and Z counters; the N-counters are required to remain nonnegative and the Z-counters do not have this restriction. We study the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Clotilde Bizière , Wojciech Czerwiński , Roland Guttenberg , Jérôme Leroux , Vincent Michielini , Łukasz Orlikowski , Antoni Puch , Henry Sinclair-Banks

We introduce {\omega}-Petri nets ({\omega}PN), an extension of plain Petri nets with {\omega}-labeled input and output arcs, that is well-suited to analyse parametric concurrent systems with dynamic thread creation. Most techniques (such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Gilles Geeraerts , Alexander Heußner , M. Praveen , Jean-François Raskin

Reachability analysis is a powerful tool when it comes to capturing the behaviour, thus verifying the safety, of autonomous systems. However, general-purpose methods, such as Hamilton-Jacobi approaches, suffer from the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Alessandro Alla , Peter M. Dower , Vincent Liu

Detectability describes the property of a system to uniquely determine, after a finite number of observations, the current and subsequent states. In this paper, to reduce the complexity of checking the detectability properties in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Hao Lan , Yin Tong , Jin Guo , Carla Seatzu

This paper contains introductory material on Petri nets and Groebner basis theory and makes some observations on the relation between the two areas. The aim of the paper is to show how Groebner basis procedures can be applied to the problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Angie Chandler , Anne Heyworth

We study linear-time temporal logics interpreted over data words with multiple attributes. We restrict the atomic formulas to equalities of attribute values in successive positions and to repetitions of attribute values in the future or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Stephane Demri , Diego Figueira , M Praveen

We investigate the decidability of termination, reachability, coverability and deadlock-freeness of Petri nets endowed with a hierarchy on places, and with inhibitor arcs, reset arcs and transfer arcs that respect this hierarchy. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-06 S. Akshay , Supratik Chakraborty , Ankush Das , Vishal Jagannath , Sai Sandeep

SMPT (for Satisfiability Modulo Petri Net) is a model checker for reachability problems in Petri nets. It started as a portfolio of methods to experiment with symbolic model checking, and was designed to be easily extended. Some distinctive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Nicolas Amat , Silvano Dal Zilio

The coverability and boundedness problems for Petri nets are known to be Expspace-complete. Given a Petri net, we associate a graph with it. With the vertex cover number k of this graph and the maximum arc weight W as parameters, we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 M. Praveen

The verification of safety properties for concurrent systems often reduces to the coverability problem for Petri nets. This problem was shown to be ExpSpace-complete forty years ago. Driven by the concurrency revolution, it has regained a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Thomas Geffroy , Jérôme Leroux , Grégoire Sutre

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

Iterative imperative programs can be considered as infinite-state systems computing over possibly unbounded domains. Studying reachability in these systems is challenging as it requires to deal with an infinite number of states with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Arnaud Gotlieb , Tristan Denmat , Nadjib Lazaar

This paper addresses the problem of infinite-step opacity and K-step opacity of discrete event systems modeled with Petri nets. A Petri net system is said to be infinite-step/K-step opaque if all its secret states remains opaque to an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Hao Lan , Yin Tong , Jin Guo , Carla Seatzu

Ground Tree Rewrite Systems with State are known to have an undecidable control state reachability problem. Taking inspiration from the recent introduction of scope-bounded multi-stack pushdown systems, we define Senescent Ground Tree…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Matthew Hague

Cardinality constraints or, more generally, weight constraints are well recognized as an important extension of answer-set programming. Clearly, all common algorithmic tasks related to programs with cardinality or weight constraints - like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Reinhard Pichler , Stefan Rümmele , Stefan Szeider , Stefan Woltran

Vector addition systems (VAS) constitute an important model of computation and concurrency that is equally expressive as the Petri net model. Recently, a lot of research has been conducted on vector addition systems with states (VASS),…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weijun Chen , Yuxi Fu , Yangluo Zheng

Reachability of vector addition systems with states (VASS) is Ackermann complete~\cite{leroux2021reachability,czerwinski2021reachability}. For $d$-dimensional VASS reachability it is known that the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxi Fu , Yangluo Zheng , Qizhe Yang