Synchrony vs. Causality in Asynchronous Petri Nets

Given a synchronous system, we study the question whether the behaviour of that system can be exhibited by a (non-trivially) distributed and hence asynchronous implementation. In this paper we show, by counterexample, that synchronous systems cannot in general be implemented in an asynchronous fashi...

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Main Authors: Kirstin Peters, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke, Ursula Goltz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2011-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.4471v1
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Summary:Given a synchronous system, we study the question whether the behaviour of that system can be exhibited by a (non-trivially) distributed and hence asynchronous implementation. In this paper we show, by counterexample, that synchronous systems cannot in general be implemented in an asynchronous fashion without either introducing an infinite implementation or changing the causal structure of the system behaviour.
ISSN:2075-2180