In this paper we introduce the concept of a Petri net component and show how systems can be composed from components. A component communicates with its environment via distinguished input and output places, which formalizes communication by message passing. Then, we present a compositional semantics for components. The semantics is an extension of processes for place/transition systems (partial order semantics). We show that the semantics is fully abstract with respect to the behaviour of closed components (essentially, processes of place/transition systems). A main feature of the compositional semantics is that composition of components corresponds to conjunction. The semantics can be easily combined with a temporal logic interpreted on processes of a place/transition system. We introduce such a logic and show how it can be combined with the semantics to achieve a rely-guarantee concept.     «

In this paper we introduce the concept of a Petri net component and show how systems can be composed from components. A component communicates with its environment via distinguished input and output places, which formalizes communication by message passing. Then, we present a compositional semantics for components. The semantics is an extension of processes for place/transition systems (partial order semantics). We show that the semantics is fully abstract with respect to the behaviour of closed...     »