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Also in: Information and Computation, Vol. 117, No. 1, pages 98-114. 1995.
Abstract: A generalization of the notion of trace is proposed. This enables one to associate with each Petri net a single behavioural object, namely a poset of (generalized) traces. In addition a characterization is given of the trace languages defined by Petri nets. Finally, the authors show that the general event structures and the stable event structures can be characterized in terms of the generalized trace languages.
Keywords: trace semantics (for) net(s); generalized trace; trace language, (defined by nets); general event structure; stable event structure.