Abstract

Most of the basic decision problems concerning derivations in cooperating distributed grammar systems have so far been open, possibly because of the lack of unifying methods and techniques. In this paper such a unifying device is proposed. It is called a coverability tree because it bears some resemblance to the coverability graph of place/transition Petri nets and vector addition systems. The coverability tree is always finite, which leads to rather strong decidability properties concerning both arbitrary and terminal derivations. Our method is largely independent of the mode of the derivations and answers most of the direct decidability questions about the components of the system.

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