This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR '96, held in Pisa, Italy, in August 1996.The volume presents 37 revised full papers selected from a total of 133 submissions; also included are seven invited papers. The contributions are grouped into topical sections on process algebras, categorical approaches, the pi-calculus, decidability and complexity, probability, functional and constraint programming, Petri nets, verification, automata and causality, practical models, and shared-memory systems.