Research Report A23: A Sheaf Semantics for Petri Nets

Author: Johan Lilius

Date: June 1993

Pages: 13

The semantics of Petri Nets are discussed within the "Objects are sheaves" paradigm. Transitions and places are represented as sheaves and nets are represented as diagrams of sheaves. Both an interleaving semantics, and a non-interleaving semantics are shown to arise as the limit of the sheaf diagram representing the net.


Full report in Postscript