This volume contains the proceedings of the 19th annual International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. The aim of the Petri net conference is to create a forum for the dissemination of the latest results in the application and theory of Petri nets.

Invited Papers.- Petri Nets as Token Objects.- Synchronized Products of Transition Systems and Their Analysis.- Manual and Automatic Exploitation of Symmetries in SPN Models.- Full Papers.- Dimensioning Handover Buffers in Wireless ATM Networks with GSPN Models.- A Class of Well Structured Petri Nets for Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Modelling and Model Checking a Distributed Shared Memory Consistency Protocol.- Finding Stubborn Sets of Coloured Petri Nets without Unfolding.- On Stubborn Sets in the Verification of Linear Time Temporal Properties.- A Compositional Petri Net Semantics for SDL.- An Axiomatisation of Duplication Equivalence in the Petri Box Calculus.- Efficiency of Token-Passing MUTEX-Solutions — Some Experiments.- Thinking in Cycles.- Iterative Decomposition and Aggregation of Labeled GSPNs.- On the Use of Structural Petri Net Analysis for Studying Product Form Equilibrium Distributions of Queueing Networks with Blocking.- Deadlock Detection in the Face of Transaction and Data Dependencies.- Petri Net Based Certification of Event-Driven Process Chains.- M-net Calculus Based Semantics for Triggers.- SWN Analysis and Simulation of Large Knockout ATM Switches.- Flexibility in Algebraic Nets.- ESTL: A Temporal Logic for Events and States.

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