SPBC: a Markovian extension of finite Petri box calculus

Abstract

In this paper we present a stochastic extension of finite PBC, sPBC in which actions have a stochastic delay associated, which is taken from a negative exponential distribution. We define for the language both an operational and a denotational semantics, using a class of labelled stochastic Petri net as supporting values. In this paper we restrict our attention to finite sPBC, i.e. we consider neither the iteration operator nor recursive definition of processes.