Process Algebras for Petri Nets

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 1-14

3. Labeled Transition Systems

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 15-34

4. Petri Nets

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 35-76

5. The Basic Calculus: SFM

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 77-94

6. Adding Asynchronous Parallel Composition: CFM and BPP

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 95-119

7. Adding Communication and Restriction: FNC

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 121-167

8. Adding Multi-party Communication: FNM

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 169-225

9. Adding Atomic Tests for Absence: NPL

   • Roberto Gorrieri

   Pages 227-272

10. Generalizations and Variant Semantics

    • Roberto Gorrieri

    Pages 273-285

11. Back Matter

    Pages 287-302

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This book deals with the problem of finding suitable languages that can represent specific classes of Petri nets, the most studied and widely accepted model for distributed systems. Hence, the contribution of this book amounts to the alphabetization of some classes of distributed systems. The book also suggests the need for a generalization of Turing computability theory.

It is important for graduate students and researchers engaged with the concurrent semantics of distributed communicating systems. The author assumes some prior knowledge of formal languages and theoretical computer science.

• Petri Nets
• Process Algebras
• Models of Computation
• Concurrency
• Distributed Computing
• Process Calculus

“Gorrieri's monograph is truly illuminating and has fully met my high expectations regarding content, originality, technical rigor, and presentation. It should be on the reading list of every doctoral student in concurrency theory and also of those research scholars who have some grounding in concurrency theory but are not experts in both Petri nets and process algebras.” (Gerald Lüttgen, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2018)

• Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Roberto Gorrieri

Roberto Gorrieri is a professor in the Università di Bologna. His research and teaching interests include theoretical computer science, particularly concurrency, the foundations of software engineering, and the foundations of security. He coauthored the textbook "Introduction to Concurrency Theory: Transition Systems and CCS" in 2015, and he has authored over 140 formal academic publications. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Università di Pisa.

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