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We provide a Petri net semantics for a subset of CCSP, the union of Milner's CCS and Hoare's CSP. It assigns to each process term in the subset a labelled, one-safe place/transition net. As opposed to many other approaches to Petri net semantics, our definition is operational as it is based on Plotkin-style transition rules. These rules are inspired by work of Degano, DeNicola and Montanari, but differ in the way they model the interplay of the central concepts in CCSP: concurrency, nondeterminism and recursion. To discuss these differences, we propose criteria for a good Petri net semantics for CCSP.
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Olderog, ER. (1987). Operational Petri net semantics for CCSP. In: Rozenberg, G. (eds) Advances in Petri Nets 1987. APN 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18086-9_27
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