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.

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Invited Papers.- Making Work Flow: On the Application of Petri Nets to Business Process Management.- Model Validation - A Theoretical Issue?.- The Real-Time Refinement Calculus: A Foundation for Machine-Independent Real-Time Programming.- The Challenge of Object Orientation for the Analysis of Concurrent Systems.- Abstract Cyclic Communicating Processes: A Logical View.- Is the Die Cast for the Token Game?.- Regular Papers.- Quasi-Static Scheduling of Independent Tasks for Reactive Systems.- Data Decision Diagrams for Petri Net Analysis.- Non-controllable Choice Robustness Expressing the Controllability of Workflow Processes.- Real-Time Synchronised Petri Nets.- Computing a Finite Prefix of a Time Petri Net.- Verification of a Revised WAP Wireless Transaction Protocol.- Characterizing Liveness of Petri Nets in Terms of Siphons.- Petri Nets, Situations, and Automata.- Reproducibility of the Empty Marking.- Modeling and Analysis of Multi-class Threshold-Based Queues with Hysteresis Using Stochastic Petri Nets.- Tackling the Infinite State Space of a Multimedia Control Protocol Service Specification.- Modelling of Features and Feature Interactions in Nokia Mobile Phones Using Coloured Petri Nets.- Analysing Infinite-State Systems by Combining Equivalence Reduction and the Sweep-Line Method.- Regular Event Structures and Finite Petri Nets: The Conflict-Free Case.- A Formal Service Specification for the Internet Open Trading Protocol.- Transition Refinement for Deriving a Distributed Minimum Weight Spanning Tree Algorithm.- Token-Controlled Place Refinement in Hierarchical Petri Nets with Application to Active Document Workflow.- Translating TPAL Specifications into Timed-Arc Petri Nets.- Tool Presentation.- Maria: Modular Reachability Analyser for Algebraic System Nets.