Distributed Computing is rapidly becoming the principal computing paradigm in diverse areas of
computing communication and control. Processor clusters local and wide area networks and
the information highway evolved a new kind of problems which can be solved with distributed
algorithms. In this textbook a variety of distributed algorithms are presented independently of
particular programming languages or hardware using the graphically suggestive technique of
Petri nets which is both easy to comprehend intuitively and formally rigorous. By means of
temporal logic the author provides surprisingly simple yet powerful correctness proofs for the
algorithms. The scope of the book ranges from distributed control and synchronization of two
sites up to algorithms on any kind of networks. Numerous examples show that description and
analysis of distributed algorithms in this framework are intuitive and technically transparent.
