Diagnosis of asynchronous discrete event systems, a net unfolding approach

Abstract

This paper studies the diagnosis of asynchronous discrete event systems. We follow a so-called true concurrency approach, in which neither the global state nor global time are available. Instead, we use only local states in combination with a partial order model of time; our basic mathematical tool is that of Petri net unfoldings. This study was motivated by the problem of event correlation in telecommunications network management.