Representing Petri Nets in an Action Based Formalism

This paper addresses the possibility of representing and simulating Petri Nets using an Artificial Intelligence formalism for Reasoning about Actions and Change called Generalized Magnitudes. As a result, we obtain an alternative logical-based formalization for Petri Nets, allowing to apply common techniques in Reasoning about Actions and Change in the analysis of Petri Nets models. Futhermore, we provide the alternative of representing concurrency and synchronization in a Generalized Magnitudes system using a Petri Net.