2019/02/14 by Utkarsh Gupta, Preey Shah, Gupta, Utkarsh +5
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Access Control and Trust #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL) #Petri Nets in System Modeling #cs.FL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.05604
Extended version of conference paper at FoSSaCS 2019
arxiv created 2019/02/14 · openalex publication_date 2019/02/14 · arxiv updated 2019/02/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Unordered data Petri nets (UDPN) are an extension of classical Petri nets with tokens that carry data from an infinite domain and where transitions may check equality and disequality of tokens. UDPN are well-structured, so the coverability and termination problems are decidable, but with higher complexity than for Petri nets. On the other hand, the problem of reachability for UDPN is surprisingly complex, and its decidability status remains open. In this paper, we consider the continuous reachability problem for UDPN, which can be seen as an over-approximation of the reachability problem. Our main result is a characterization of continuous reachability for UDPN and polynomial time algorithm for solving it. This is a consequence of a combinatorial argument, which shows that if continuous reachability holds then there exists a run using only polynomially many data values.