%0 Journal Article %T TOWARDS Z SPECIFICATION OF PLACE TRANSITION NETS %A Farooq Ahmad %A Mudasser Naseer %A Zaheer Ahmad %J VFAST Transactions on Software Engineering %D 2015 %X Petri net formalism has dynamics and it is well suited for distributed or concurrent systems. However, it has a graphical representation in the form of a bipartite graph through which the type of data cannot be identified. This paper presents the Z specification of the net structure of place transition nets to provide the data semantics of graphical structure. This paper further addresses the Z specification of special sub classes of Petri nets, which include state machine, marked graphs and free choice nets %U https://vfast.org/journals/index.php/VTSE/article/view/328