G. Michele Pinna - A new operational representation of dependencies in Event Structures

lmcs:6950 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, December 2, 2021, Volume 17, Issue 4 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-17(4:16)2021
A new operational representation of dependencies in Event StructuresArticle

Authors: G. Michele Pinna ORCID

    The execution of an event in a complex and distributed system where the dependencies vary during the evolution of the system can be represented in many ways, and one of them is to use Context-Dependent Event structures. Event structures are related to Petri nets. The aim of this paper is to propose what can be the appropriate kind of Petri net corresponding to Context-Dependent Event structures, giving an operational flavour to the dependencies represented in a Context/Dependent Event structure. Dependencies are often operationally represented, in Petri nets, by tokens produced by activities and consumed by others. Here we shift the perspective using contextual arcs to characterize what has happened so far and in this way to describe the dependencies among the various activities.


    Volume: Volume 17, Issue 4
    Published on: December 2, 2021
    Accepted on: September 28, 2021
    Submitted on: December 2, 2020
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,F.4.m,H.1

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