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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.49
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-81278
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Atig, Mohamed Faouzi ; Meyer, Roland ; Muskalla, Sebastian ; Saivasan, Prakash

On the Upward/Downward Closures of Petri Nets

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Abstract

We study the size and the complexity of computing finite state automata (FSA) representing and approximating the downward and the upward closure of Petri net languages with coverability as the acceptance condition.
We show how to construct an FSA recognizing the upward closure of a Petri net language in doubly-exponential time, and therefore the size is at most doubly exponential.
For downward closures, we prove that the size of the minimal automata can be non-primitive recursive.
In the case of BPP nets, a well-known subclass of Petri nets, we show that an FSA accepting the downward/upward closure can be constructed in exponential time.
Furthermore, we consider the problem of checking whether a simple regular language is included in the downward/upward closure of a Petri net/BPP net language.
We show that this problem is EXPSPACE-complete (resp. NP-complete) in the case of Petri nets (resp. BPP nets).
Finally, we show that it is decidable whether a Petri net language is upward/downward closed.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{atig_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:8127,
  author =	{Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Roland Meyer and Sebastian Muskalla and Prakash Saivasan},
  title =	{{On the Upward/Downward Closures of Petri Nets}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-046-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{83},
  editor =	{Kim G. Larsen and Hans L. Bodlaender and Jean-Francois Raskin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/8127},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-81278},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: Petri nets, BPP nets, downward closure, upward closure}
}

Keywords: Petri nets, BPP nets, downward closure, upward closure
Collection: 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 01.12.2017

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