An Approach to the Category of Net Computations

We introduce the notion of strongly concatenable process as a refinement of concatenable processes [3] which can be expressed axiomatically via a functor Q[ ] from the category of Petri nets to an appropriate category of symmetric strict monoidal categories, in the precise sense that, for each net N , the strongly concatenable processes of N are isomorphic to the arrows of Q[N ]. In addition, we identify a coreflection right adjoint to Q[ ] and characterize its replete image, thus yielding an axiomatization of the category of net computations.