Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII

These Transactions publish archival papers in the broad area of Petri nets and other models of concurrency, ranging from theoretical work to tool support and industrial applications. ToPNoC issues are published as LNCS volumes, and hence are widely distributed and indexed. This Journal has its own Editorial Board which selects papers based on a rigorous two-stage refereeing process. ToPNoC contains: - Revised versions of a selection of the best papers from workshops and tutorials at the annual Petri net conferences - Special sections/issues within particular subareas (similar to those published in the Advances in Petri Nets series) - Other papers invited for publication in ToPNoC - Papers submitted directly to ToPNoC by their authors The 7th volume of ToPNoC contains revised material from the 5th International Summer School Advanced Course on Petri Nets, held in September 2010 in Rostock, Germany. The nine papers cover a diverse range of topics including modeling, verification, partial order semantics, and synthesis of Petri nets. In compliance with their origin as course material, the papers are written in survey or tutorial style and give a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in their respective areas.

The first section is concerned with the creation of Petri net models and their validation The second section addresses semantic issues and analysis methods The third section is devoted to the automatic synthesis of Petri nets

Autorentext
Wil van der Aalst is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he chairs the Architecture of Information Systems group. He also has a part-time appointment in the BPM group of Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation. Wil has published journal papers, books, refereed conference or workshop publications, and book chapters.

Inhalt
In Memoriam: Carl Adam Petri.- Strategies for Modeling Complex Processes Using Colored Petri Nets.- Applications of Coloured Petri Nets for Functional Validation of Protocol Designs.- Business Process Modeling Using Petri Nets.- Structure Theory of Petri Nets.- Causality in Extensions of Petri Nets.- External Behaviour of Systems of State Machines with Variables.- The Synthesis Problem.- Models from Scenarios.- Discovering Petri Nets from Event Logs.