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Reversible Computation vs. Reversibility in Petri Nets

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Maciej KoutnyORCiD, Dr Lukasz Mikulski

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Abstract

Petri nets are a general formal model of concurrent systems which supports both action-based and state-based modelling and reasoning. One of important behavioural properties investigated in the context of Petri nets has beenreversibility, understood as the possibility of returning to the initial marking from any reachable net marking. Thus reversibility in Petri nets is a global property. Reversible computation, on the other hand, is typically a local mechanism using which a system can undo some of the executed actions. This paper is concerned with the modelling of reversible computation within Petri nets. A key idea behind the proposed construction is to add `reverse' versions of selected transitions. Since such a modification can severely impact on the behavior of the system, it is crucial, in particular, to be able to determine whether the modified system has a similar set of states as the original one. We first prove that the problem of establishing whether the two nets have the same reachable markings is undecidable even in the restricted case discussed in this paper. We then show that the problem of checking whether the reachability sets of the two nets cover the same markings is decidable.


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Author(s): Barylska K, Koutny M, Mikulski L, Piatkowski M

Editor(s): Devitt, S; Lanese, I

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: 8th Conference on Reversible Computation

Year of Conference: 2016

Pages: 105-118

Print publication date: 19/07/2016

Online publication date: 30/06/2016

Acceptance date: 21/03/2016

Date deposited: 10/04/2016

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40578-0_7

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40578-0_7

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN: 9783319405773


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