Clint Eastwood's completion of the Iwo Jima saga. Here the action is seen from the Japanese point of view and the film is based on the book 'Picture Letters from Commander in Chief' by Tadamichi Kuribayashi. The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favour the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2023, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 2023. The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Process mining; semantics; tools; verification; timed models; model transformation. The book also includes two invited talks in full paper length. 

Berufspolitiker haben ein schlechtes Image. Deshalb richten sich immer wieder Hoffnungen auf eine Erneuerung von aussen. Mit dem Ruf nach Seiteneinsteigern verbindet sich die Erwartung auf mehr Kompetenz, breitere Reprasentation und groessere Orientierung am Gemeinwohl. Inwieweit Seiteneinsteiger freilich diese Erwartungen zu erfullen vermoegen, welche Eigenschaften, Fahigkeiten und Erfahrungen sie mitbringen mussen, was also einen erfolgreichen von einem erfolglosen Seiteneinsteiger unterscheidet, bleibt dabei unklar. Dieser Band beantwortet die entscheidenden Fragen und untersucht am Beispiel von 23 politischen Karrieren Erfolg und Misserfolg von Seiteneinsteigern.