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An axiomatization of the category of Petri net computations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

VLADIMIRO SASSONE
Affiliation:
BRICS – Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus
Basic Research in Computer Science, Centre of the Danish National Research Foundation.

Abstract

We introduce the notion of strongly concatenable process as a refinement of concatenable processes (Degano et al. 1996), which can be expressed axiomatically via a functor [Qscr ](_) from the category of Petri nets to an appropriate category of symmetric strict monoidal categories, in the precise sense that, for each net N, the strongly concatenable processes of N are isomorphic to the arrows of [Qscr ](N). In addition, we identify a coreflection right adjoint to [Qscr ](_) and characterize its replete image, thus yielding an axiomatization of the category of net computations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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