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  • Strong Sleptsov nets are Tu...
    Zaitsev, Dmitry A.

    Information sciences, April 2023, 2023-04-00, 2023-04, Volume: 621
    Journal Article

    It is known that a Sleptsov net, with multiple firing of a transition at a step, runs exponentially faster than a Petri net, opening prospects for its application as a graphical language of concurrent programming. We provide a classification of place-transition nets based on firability rules considering general definitions and their strong and weak variants. We introduce and study a strong Sleptsov net, where a transition with the maximal firing multiplicity fires at a step, and prove that it is Turing complete. We follow the proof pattern of Peterson which he applied to prove that an inhibitor Petri net is Turing complete by simulating a Shepherdson and Sturgis register machine. The central construct of our proof is a strong Sleptsov net that checks whether a register value (place marking) equals zero.