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This book primarily presents an introductory material to semiflows and secondarily contains some special parts useful for researches in this field. It contains the following chapters:~Dynamical Processes introducing the definition of dynamical process, and the main ideas of the theory of dynamical systems under investigation. These ideas are illustrated by examining some simple examples of dynamical processes generated by finite systems of ordinary differential equations and by iterated maps. 2.~Attractors and Semiflows giving the definitions of the semiflows associated with an autonomous dynamical system in a Banach space, and of the attractor of this semiflow. Relevant properties of semiflows and their attractors are discussed. The ideas and results presented are a natural generalization to the infinite-dimensional case of many known notions of the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations. 3.~Attractors for Semilinear Evolution Equations showing the existence of a global attractor for the semiflows generated by two simple dissipative evolution equations. The first one is a semilinear version of the heat equation \[ u_t - \Delta u+g(u)=f,\eqno{(P)} \] the second one is the dissipative wave equation \[ \varepsilon u_{tt}+u_t - \Delta u+g(u)=f,\,\,\,\,\,\varepsilon>0.\eqno{(H)} \] 4.~Exponential Attractors defining exponential attractors for semiflows on a Hilbert space and describing an explicit construction of the exponential attractor when the semiflow satisfies so called discrete squeezing property. The authors show that the continuous semiflows defined by the initial-boundary values problems for~(P) and~(H) (for small \(\varepsilon\)) satisfy the discrete squeezing property and systems admit an exponential attractor. 5.~Inertial Manifolds explaining the precise definition of this notion for a continuous semiflow defined on a Banach space and showing how an inertial manifold can be constructed. The authors use the cone invariance property and a version of strong squeezing property. The applicability of the results is documented on abstract evolution equations \[ u_t +Au=F(u) \] with linear, unbounded operator \(A\) generating at least \(C^0\) semigroup. 6.~Examples where the authors present four examples of semiflows, generated by some specific initial-boundary value problems (hyperbolic perturbations of the viscous and nonviscous Cahn-Hilliard equations, extensible beam equation, the Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equation). All these problems are treated with a suitable application of the methods described in Chapters 3, 4 and 5. 7.~A Nonexistence Result for Inertial Manifolds reproducing a result of \textit{X. Mora} and \textit{J. Solà-Morales} [Existence and nonexistence of finite-dimensional globally attracting invariant manifolds in semilinear damped wave equations, Dynamics of infinite-dimensional systems, Proc. NATO Adv. Study Inst., Lisbon/Port. 1986, NATO ASI Ser., Ser. F 37, 187-210 (1987; Zbl 0642.35062)] concerning the nonexistence of inertial manifolds for the semiflow generated by a semilinear dissipative wave equation of form~(H). For the reader's convenience, the authors inserted an appendix with selected results from analysis, that have been referred in the book. Every cited result contains at least one reference to the corresponding source proof. Summing up -- the book introduces, in a relative selfcontained manner, the basic results of the theory of dynamical systems that can be naturally extended and applied to study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of differential equations of evolution. The explanation is gradual, developing the basis needed by beginners, and culminating in a detailed presentation of the main topics (using new ways to considering classical problems) and presentation of new results for inertial manifolds. From many points of view cited above is this book appropriate for both, newcomers and researchers in infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. Moreover, it can serve as a ready reference to researches in more applied fields, who feel the need for a clear presentation of the background material and results that are necessary for the study of the specific systems they are interested in.