A Categorical Semantics for Guarded Petri Nets
arXiv:2002.02762 · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51372-6_4
Abstract
We build on the correspondence between Petri nets and free symmetric strict monoidal categories already investigated in the literature, and present a categorical semantics for Petri nets with guards. This comes in two flavors: Deterministic and with side-effects. Using the Grothendieck construction, we show how the guard semantics can be internalized in the net itself.
24 pages (11 appendix), 13 figures