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Unbounded Product-Form Petri Nets

Authors Patricia Bouyer, Serge Haddad, Vincent Jugé



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Patricia Bouyer
Serge Haddad
Vincent Jugé

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Patricia Bouyer, Serge Haddad, and Vincent Jugé. Unbounded Product-Form Petri Nets. In 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 85, pp. 31:1-31:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.31

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Computing steady-state distributions in infinite-state stochastic systems is in general a very difficult task. Product-form Petri nets are those Petri nets for which the steady-state distribution can be described as a natural product corresponding, up to a normalising constant, to an exponentiation of the markings. However, even though some classes of nets are known to have a product-form distribution, computing the normalising constant can be hard. The class of (closed) \Pi^3-nets has been proposed in an earlier work, for which it is shown that one can compute the steady-state distribution efficiently. However these nets are bounded. In this paper, we generalise queuing Markovian networks and closed \Pi^3-nets to obtain the class of open \Pi^3-nets, that generate infinite-state systems. We show interesting properties of these nets: (1) we prove that liveness can be decided in polynomial time, and that reachability in live \Pi^3-nets can be decided in polynomial time; (2) we show that we can decide ergodicity of such nets in polynomial time as well; (3) we provide a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm to compute the normalising constant.
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  • Performance evaluation
  • infinite-state systems
  • Petri nets
  • steady-state distribution

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