Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2007, held in Siedlce, Poland, in June 2007. This book includes papers that address issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems.

Invited Papers.- Petri Nets, Discrete Physics, and Distributed Quantum Computation.- Autonomous Distributed System and Its Realization by Multi Agent Nets.- Petri Nets Without Tokens.- Toward Specifications for Reconfigurable Component Systems.- Generating Petri Net State Spaces.- Full Papers.- Markov Decision Petri Net and Markov Decision Well-Formed Net Formalisms.- Comparison of the Expressiveness of Arc, Place and Transition Time Petri Nets.- Improving Static Variable Orders Via Invariants.- Independence of Net Transformations and Token Firing in Reconfigurable Place/Transition Systems.- From Many Places to Few: Automatic Abstraction Refinement for Petri Nets.- A Compositional Method for the Synthesis of Asynchronous Communication Mechanisms.- History-Dependent Petri Nets.- Complete Process Semantics for Inhibitor Nets.- Behaviour-Preserving Transition Insertions in Unfolding Prefixes.- Combining Decomposition and Unfolding for STG Synthesis.- Object Nets for Mobility.- Web Service Orchestration with Super-Dual Object Nets.- Synthesis of Elementary Net Systems with Context Arcs and Localities.- Nets with Tokens Which Carry Data.- Operating Guidelines for Finite-State Services.- Theory of Regions for the Synthesis of Inhibitor Nets from Scenarios.- Utilizing Fuzzy Petri Net for Choreography Based Semantic Web Services Discovery.- Formal Models for Multicast Traffic in Network on Chip Architectures with Compositional High-Level Petri Nets.- Name Creation vs. Replication in Petri Net Systems.- Modelling the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol’s Connection Management and Synchronization Procedures.- The ComBack Method – Extending Hash Compaction with Backtracking.- Computing Minimal Elements of Upward-Closed Sets for Petri Nets.- Tool Papers.- ProM 4.0:Comprehensive Support for Real Process Analysis.- dmcG: A Distributed Symbolic Model Checker Based on GreatSPN.- Workcraft: A Static Data Flow Structure Editing, Visualisation and Analysis Tool.

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