Pragmatic Reachability Analysis of Bounded Petri Nets based on Unfoldings

This paper suggests an efficient reachability analysis method of bounded petri nets. Reachability analysis is a fundamental basis for studying the dynamic properties of any discrete event systems. However, it takes at least exponential execution time and memory space to verify in general petri nets. That is, state space explosion problem may occur. In this paper, we attack problems of previous approaches - state space explosion and restrictions to applicable petri net classes - by formulating the reachability problem as set operation over structural relations among places on an unfolding.