<p>In this paper, a classical topic from computer science is reexamined from the perspective of modern control theory. Vector addition systems, first introduced in 1969, saw their first major results published in 1976. More recently, new developments have appeared in the computer science literature. Here, the authors study controllability, positive controllability, and reachability in detail, and establish necessary and sufficient conditions for each of these three concepts. While reachability has been the primary focus of the computer science works, those studies emphasize decidability-a topic not addressed in this paper. Instead, the main contribution of this work is the derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for reachability expressed in terms of the system matrix.</p>

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The Controllability of Vector Addition Systems

  • Xiaochang Wang,
  • Clyde Martin

摘要

In this paper, a classical topic from computer science is reexamined from the perspective of modern control theory. Vector addition systems, first introduced in 1969, saw their first major results published in 1976. More recently, new developments have appeared in the computer science literature. Here, the authors study controllability, positive controllability, and reachability in detail, and establish necessary and sufficient conditions for each of these three concepts. While reachability has been the primary focus of the computer science works, those studies emphasize decidability-a topic not addressed in this paper. Instead, the main contribution of this work is the derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for reachability expressed in terms of the system matrix.