Deficiency Zero Petri Nets and Product Form

Issue title: Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, 2009

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mairesse, Jean | Nguyen, Hoang-Thach

Affiliations: LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France. mairesse@liafa.jussieu.fr, ngthach@liafa.jussieu.fr

Note: [] Address for correspondence: LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

Abstract: Consider a Markovian Petri net with race policy. The marking process has a “product form” stationary distribution if the probability of viewing a given marking can be decomposed as the product over places of terms depending only on the local marking. First we observe that the Deficiency Zero Theorem of Feinberg, developed for chemical reaction networks, provides a structural and simple sufficient condition for the existence of a product form. In view of this, we study the classical subclass of free-choice nets. Roughly, we show that the only Petri nets of this class which have a product form are the state machines, which can alternatively be viewed as Jackson networks.

DOI: 10.3233/FI-2010-366

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 237-261, 2010