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Using Petri nets to represent systems, a framework is proposed for formulating the notion of one system being a distributed implementation of another, with a classification of whether an implementation introduces any additional activity and whether it introduces an unbounded amount of communication activity. We give net structure characterisations of those systems for which there is always a distributed implementation within a particular classification; and general constructions for those implementations.
This work was supported by ESPRIT Basic Research project — DEMON 3148.
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Hopkins, R.P. (1991). Distributable nets. In: Rozenberg, G. (eds) Advances in Petri Nets 1991. ICATPN 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 524. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0019974
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