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The author describes meeting Carl Adam Petri, he comments on the competitors that Petri nets faced in the modelling of distributed systems, and he reviews some of Petri’s fundamental and seminal ideas on the world of non-sequential processes and distributed systems.
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A preliminary study on the semantics of nets with local priority constraints can be obtained on request.
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Smith, E. (2019). Observations of a Lateral Entrant. In: Reisig, W., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Carl Adam Petri: Ideas, Personality, Impact. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96154-5_2
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