This book offers an overview of the key ideas of Petri nets how they were developed and how
they were applied in diverse applications. The chapters in the first part offer individual
perspectives on the impact of Petri¿s work. The second part of the book contains personal
memories from researchers who collaborated with him closely in particular they recount his
unique personality. The chapters in the third part offer more conventional treatments on
various aspects of current Petri net research and the fourth part examines the wide
applications of Petri nets and the relationships with other domains. The editors and authors
are the leading researchers in this domain and this book will be a valuable insight for
researchers in computer science particularly those engaged with concurrency and distributed
systems.
