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Model checking based on Petri net unfoldings is an approach widely applied to cope with the state space explosion problem.
In this paper we propose a new condensed representation of a Petri net’s behaviour called merged processes, which copes well not only with concurrency, but also with other sources of state space explosion, viz. sequences of choices and non-safeness. Moreover, this representation is sufficiently similar to the traditional unfoldings, so that a large body of results developed for the latter can be re-used. Experimental results indicate that the proposed representation of a Petri net’s behaviour alleviates the state space explosion problem to a significant degree and is suitable for model checking.
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Khomenko, V., Kondratyev, A., Koutny, M., Vogler, W. (2005). Merged Processes — A New Condensed Representation of Petri Net Behaviour. In: Abadi, M., de Alfaro, L. (eds) CONCUR 2005 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11539452_27
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