Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2002, held in Adelaide, Australia, in June 2002.;The 18 regular papers and one tool presentation presented together with six invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.;All current issues on research and development of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems analysis, model validation, business process management, reactive systems, workflow processes, wireless transaction protocols.