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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

In recent work, the second and third authors introduced a technique for reachability checking in 1-bounded Petri nets, based on wiring decompositions, which are expressions in a fragment of the compositional algebra of nets with boundaries.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Julian Rathke , Pawel Sobocinski , Owen Stephens

We introduce immediate observation Petri nets, a class of interest in the study of population protocols (a model of distributed computation), and enzymatic chemical networks. In these areas, relevant analysis questions translate into…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Javier Esparza , Mikhail Raskin , Chana Weil-Kennedy

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

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

A central decision problem in Petri net theory is reachability asking whether a given marking can be reached from the initial marking. Related is the covering problem (or sub-marking reachbility), which decides whether there is a reachable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Thomas M. Prinz , Christopher T. Schwanen , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

This paper proposes a semi-structural approach to verify the nonblockingness of a Petri net. We construct a structure, called minimax basis reachability graph (minimax-BRG): it provides an abstract description of the reachability set of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Chao Gu , Ziyue Ma , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

The recent years have seen remarkable progress in establishing the complexity of the reachability problem for vector addition systems with states (VASS), equivalently known as Petri nets. Existing work primarily considers the case in which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Andrei Draghici , Christoph Haase , Andrew Ryzhikov

Plans often change due to changes in the situation or our understanding of the situation. Sometimes, a feasible plan may not even exist, and identifying such infeasibilities is useful to determine when requirements need adjustment. Common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Nguyen Cong Nhat Le , John G. Rogers , Claire N. Bonial , Neil T. Dantam

The reachability problem for Vector Addition Systems (VASs) is a central problem of net theory. The general problem is known to be decidable by algorithms exclusively based on the classical Kosaraju-Lambert-Mayr-Sacerdote-Tenney…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 leroux jerome

We propose a method to count the number of reachable markings of a Petri net without having to enumerate these rst. The method relies on a structural reduction system that reduces the number of places and transitions of the net in such a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Bernard Berthomieu , Didier Le Botlan , Silvano Dal Zilio

We study the qualitative and quantitative zero-reachability problem in probabilistic multi-counter systems. We identify the undecidable variants of the problems, and then we concentrate on the remaining two cases. In the first case, when we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Tomáš Brázdil , Stefan Kiefer , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We propose an automated procedure to prove polyhedral abstractions (also known as polyhedral reductions) for Petri nets. Polyhedral abstraction is a new type of state space equivalence, between Petri nets, based on the use of linear integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nicolas Amat , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

The reachability problem is a central decision problem for formal verification based on vector addition systems with states (VASS), which are equivalent to Petri nets and form one of the most studied and applied models of concurrency.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota , Ranko Lazić , Jérôme Leroux , Filip Mazowiecki

We define a new method for taking advantage of net reductions in combination with a SMT-based model checker. Our approach consists in transforming a reachability problem about some Petri net, into the verification of an updated reachability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Nicolas Amat , Bernard Berthomieu , Silvano Dal Zilio

Reachability analysis of hybrid systems has been used as a safety verification tool to assess offline whether the state of a system is capable of remaining within a designated safe region for a given time horizon. Although it has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Vectors addition systems with states (VASS), or equivalently Petri nets, are arguably one of the most studied formalisms for the modeling and analysis of concurrent systems. A central decision problem for VASS is reachability: whether there…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Clotilde Bizière , Thibault Hilaire , Jérôme Leroux , Grégoire Sutre

In this paper, we study the problem of non-blockingness verification by tapping into the basis reachability graph (BRG). Non-blockingness is a property that ensures that all pre-specified tasks can be completed, which is a mandatory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Chao Gu , Ziyue Ma , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

We propose a semi-decision procedure for checking generalized reachability properties, on generalized Petri nets, that is based on the Property Directed Reachability (PDR) method. We actually define three different versions, that vary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Nicolas Amat , Silvano Dal Zilio , Thomas Hujsa

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