JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 15(14): 2808-2835, doi: 10.3217/jucs-015-14-2808
Petri Net Controlled Grammars: the Case of Special Petri Nets
expand article infoJürgen Dassow‡, Sherzod Turaev§
‡ Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Informatik, Magdeburg, Germany§ Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Corresponding author: Jürgen Dassow ( dassow@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de )

© Jürgen Dassow, Sherzod Turaev.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Dassow J, Turaev S (2009) Petri Net Controlled Grammars: the Case of Special Petri Nets. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 15(14): 2808-2835. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-015-14-2808
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Abstract
A Petri net controlled grammar is a context-free grammar equipped with a Petri net, whose transitions are labeled with rules of the grammar or the empty string, and the associated language consists of all terminal strings which can be derived in the grammar and the the sequence of rules in every terminal derivation corresponds to some occurrence sequence of transitions of the Petri net which is enabled at the initial marking and finished at a final marking of the net. We present some results on the generative capacity of such grammars so that the associated Petri nets are restricted to some known special classes of Petri nets.
Keywords
grammars, Petri nets, grammars with regulated rewriting, Petri net controlled grammars