Protocol syntheses in a Petri net model with registers and its application.

Some methods for synthesizing a protocol specification from a given service specification have been proposed using various computational models. However, the existing methods cannot treat service specifications including both complex control flows and system variables. In this paper, we propose a method for synthesizing a protocol specification automatically from a pair consisting of a service specification and a resource allocation. In our method, service specifications are described in an extended model of Petri nets, which can treat system variables. We have developed a pair consisting of a synthesis system and an execution system, and applied them to CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). © 1998 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 81(8): 18–26, 1998 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]