Table of contents : Informal introduction to petri nets....Pages 1-11 Elementary net systems....Pages 12-121 Place/transition Petri Nets....Pages 122-173 Principles of high-level net theory....Pages 174-210 Petri nets in performance analysis: An introduction....Pages 211-256 Basic linear algebraic techniques for place/transition nets....Pages 257-308 Linear algebraic and linear programming techniques for the analysis of place/transition net systems....Pages 309-373 Decidability and complexity of Petri net problems — An introduction....Pages 374-428 The state explosion problem....Pages 429-528 Theory of regions....Pages 529-586 Petri nets and other models of concurrency....Pages 587-642 Distributed versions of linear time temporal logic: A trace perspective....Pages 643-681