Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Seminar


KLAUS REINHARDT
University of Tuebingen
Monday March 14th at 4.30pm
Burnside 1205



Title. Reachability in Petri Nets with Inhibitor Arcs.

Abstract. We define 2 operators on relations over natural numbers such that they generalize the operators '+' and '*' and show
that the membership and emptiness problem of relations constructed from finite relations with these operators and $\cup$ is decidable.
This generalizes Presburger arithmetics and allows to decide the reachability problem for those Petri nets where inhibitor arcs occur only
in some restricted way. Especially the reachability problem is decidable for Petri nets with only one inhibitor arc, which solves an open problem
in [KLM89]. Furthermore we describe the corresponding automaton having a decidable emptiness problem.