Lectures on Petri Nets I: Basic Models Advances in Petri Nets

The two-volume set originates from the Advanced Course on Petri Nets held in Dagstuhl, Germany in September 1996; beyond the lectures given there, additional chapters have been commissioned to give a well-balanced presentation of the state of the art in the area.
Together with its companion volume "Lectures on Petri Nets II: Applications" this book is the actual reference for the area and addresses professionals, students, lecturers, and researchers who are
- interested in systems design and would like to learn to use Petri nets familiar with subareas of the theory or its applications and wish to view the whole area
- interested in learning about recent results presented within a unified framework
- planning to apply Petri nets in practical situations
- interested in the relationship of Petri nets to other models of concurrent systems.

Informal introduction to petri nets.- Elementary net systems.- Place/transition Petri Nets.- Principles of high-level net theory.- Petri nets in performance analysis: An introduction.- Basic linear algebraic techniques for place/transition nets.- Linear algebraic and linear programming techniques for the analysis of place/transition net systems.- Decidability and complexity of Petri net problems — An introduction.- The state explosion problem.- Theory of regions.- Petri nets and other models of concurrency.- Distributed versions of linear time temporal logic: A trace perspective.