Call for Papers and Announcement Petri Nets 2010

31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF
PETRI NETS AND OTHER MODELS OF CONCURRENCY

Braga, Portugal, June 21-25, 2010

Additional information about the conference will be published via
http://PetriNets2010.di.uminho.pt

Contact e-mail: PetriNets2010@di.uminho.pt

The 31st annual international Petri Net conference will be organised by the Universidade do Minho, Portugal and the Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal. Papers presenting original contributions in any area of application and theory of Petri nets are sought. The language of the conference is English.

Topics

• System design and verification using nets,
• Analysis and synthesis, structure and behaviour of nets,
• Relationships between net theory and other approaches,
• Causality/partial order theory of concurrency,
• Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi,
• Symbolic net representation (graphical or textual),
• Computer tools for nets,
• Experience with using nets, case studies,
• Educational issues related to nets,
• Higher-level net models,
• Timed and stochastic nets,
• Standardisation of nets,
• Applications of nets to different kinds of systems and application fields, e.g.:

  flexible manufacturing systems, real-time systems, embedded systems, defence systems, biological systems, health and medical systems, environmental systems, hardware structures, telecommunications, railway networks,

  office automation, workflows, supervisory control, protocols and networks, Internet, e-commerce and trading, programming languages, performance evaluation, operations research.

The conference takes place under the auspices of the Academia Europaea, EATCS, and GI SIG "Petri Nets and Related System Models".

Paper Submissions

• Theory papers (max 20 pages).
• Application papers (max 20 pages). A typical application paper is a paper that describes one or more projects in which Petri net models and tools have been used in practice. An application paper may also describe a methodology, or other developments that demonstrate the applicability of Petri nets to industrial systems.
• Tool papers (max 10 pages). A typical tool paper is a paper which has its focus on the description of a computer tool for Petri Nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). For more information on what a typical tool paper should contain, please see the document: ToolFormat.pdf. The tool should be available for use by other groups and it should be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition.

• Contain original contributions that have not been published or submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference.
• Clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.
• Be in the Springer LNCS-format: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
• Have a length that does not exceed 20 pages (10 pages for tool papers).
• Be in English and in a form that can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revision.
• Be sent electronically (as a PostScript or PDF file) using the website http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com:80/ATPN2010/servlet/Conference no later than January 5, 2010.

• Contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above.
• Clearly indicate whether the paper is submitted as a theory paper, an application paper, or a tool paper.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final camera-ready version of accepted papers must be received by the PC chairs no later than April 1, 2010. The page limit is 20 pages (10 pages for tool papers).

Some of the best papers will be invited for publication in the Fundamenta Informaticae journal. They will be revised, reviewed and copy-edited as ordinary journal papers.

Workshops and Tutorials

The conference takes place Wednesday to Friday. The days before the conference also offer a large variety of Petri net activities. The Petri Net Course takes place Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. It offers a thorough introduction to Petri Nets and consists of four parts: Basic Net Classes, Coloured Petri Nets, Timed and Stochastic Petri Nets, and Applications of Petri Nets. If all four parts are followed, ECTS credits can be given to PhD students. The Workshops and Advanced Tutorials take place Monday and Tuesday and are offered to those who already have some knowledge of Petri nets. They are divided into several strands covering different subjects. A detailed description of the tutorials and workshops will be available via the conference web pages. Finally, it is possible to arrange Meetings and Courses related to Petri Nets. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by the PC-chairs no later than January 5, 2010.

• The purpose of workshops is to provide a setting to discuss technical issues and exchange research ideas in specific theoretical or application areas. We encourage a diversity of workshops related to Petri nets. Selected papers of the workshops will appear in a new journal subseries of LNCS entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and other models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC).
• The purpose of tutorials is to introduce researchers to a new or emerging area or to provide deeper insight into a particular topic within Petri nets or related areas, ranging from theory to industrial applications. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced.
• Workshop proposals should be submitted before June 1 (one year before the workshop) and Advanced Tutorial proposals before January 5 (half a year before the tutorial), to the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs.

Tool Exhibition

Organisation

Program Committee Co-Chair	Program Committee Co-Chair
Johan Lilius Åbo Akademi University Department of Information Technologies Joukahainengatan 3-5 FIN-20520 Turku Finland	Wojciech Penczek Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences 01-237 Warsaw Ordona 21 Poland
Phone: +358 40 5440741 Fax: +358 2 215 4732 E-mail:  johan.lilius@abo.fi	Phone: +4822 836-28-85, +48501-04-19-79 Fax: +4822 837-65-64 E-mail:  penczek@ipipan.waw.pl
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair	Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair
Susanna Donatelli Universita di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica Corso Svizzera 185 I-10149 Torino Italy	Jetty Kleijn Leiden University Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Niels Bohrweg 1 2333 CA Leiden The Netherlands
Phone: +39 011 6706746 Fax: +39 011 751603 E-mail:  susi@di.unito.it	Phone: +31 71 5277064 Fax: +31 71 5276985 E-mail:  kleijn@liacs.nl
Organising Committee Chair	Tools Exhibition Chair
João M. Fernandes Universidade do Minho Dept. Informática / CCTC Campus de Gualtar P-4710-057 Braga Portugal	Ricardo J. Machado Universidade do Minho Dept. Sistemas de Informação Campus de Azurém P-4800-058 Guimarães Portugal
Phone: +351 253604454 Fax: +351 253604471 E-mail:  jmf@di.uminho.pt	Phone: +351 253510307 Fax: +351 253510300 E-mail:  rmac@dsi.uminho.pt
Publicity Chair
João Paulo Barros Instituto Politécnico de Beja Rua Pedro Soares Campus do Instituto Politécnico de Beja Apartado 6155 P-7800-295 Beja Portugal Phone: +351 284314400 Fax: +351 284314401 E-mail:  jpbarros@acm.org

Steering Committee

History of the Conference

1. 1980 Strasbourg, France 2. 1981 Bad Honnef, Germany 3. 1982 Varenna, Italy 4. 1983 Toulouse, France 5. 1984 Aarhus, Denmark 6. 1985 Espoo, Finland 7. 1986 Oxford, UK 8. 1987 Zaragoza, Spain 9. 1988 Venice, Italy 10. 1989 Bonn, Germany 11. 1990 Paris, France 12. 1991 Aarhus, Denmark 13. 1992 Sheffield, UK 14. 1993 Chicago, USA 15. 1994 Zaragoza, Spain

16. 1995 Torino, Italy 17. 1996 Osaka, Japan 18. 1997 Toulouse, France 19. 1998 Lisbon, Portugal 20. 1999 Williamsburg, USA 21. 2000 Aarhus, Denmark 22. 2001 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 23. 2002 Adelaide, Australia 24. 2003 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 25. 2004 Bologna, Italy 26. 2005 Miami, USA 27. 2006 Turku, Finland 28. 2007 Siedlce, Poland 29. 2008 Xi'an, China 30. 2009 Paris, France

Other Major Activities of the Petri Net Community

Petri Net Newsletter

Ekkart Kindler E-mail: eki@imm.dtu.dk Web: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~eki

Robert Lorenz E-mail: robert.lorenz@informatik.uni-augsburg.de Web: http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/inf/mitarbeiter/lorenz/

Contributions should be sent to the editors. Deadlines are mid March and mid September. Further information as well as subscription forms can be obtained from the editors or from the Petri Net Newsletter web site: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/kindler/PNNL.

Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC)

• Kurt Jensen
  E-mail: kjensen@cs.au.dk
  Web: http://person.au.dk/en/kjensen@cs

Advanced Courses on Petri Nets

The next Advanced Course will take place in Rostock, Germany, September 13-24, 2010. Karsten Wolf will be course director and head of the local organising committee while Wil van der Aalst, Gianfranco Balbo and Maciej Koutny will be scientific directors. More detailed information about the course will be available on the web page http://www.petrinet-summerschool.org.

Petri Net WWW and Petri Net Mailing

• Daniel Moldt and Frank Heitmann
  E-mail: petriadm@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
  Web: http://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/tgi/PetriNets/

Impressum

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