Call for Papers and Announcement

Petri Nets 2008

29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF
PETRI NETS AND OTHER MODELS OF CONCURRENCY

Xi'an, China, June 23-27, 2008

Additional information about the conference will be published via
http://ictt.xidian.edu.cn/atpn-acsd2008

Contact e-mail: atpn2008@xidian.edu.cn

Important Dates: Submission of Papers: January 5, 2008 Notification: March 1, 2008 Final Version Due: April 1, 2008 Tutorials & Workshops: June 23-24, 2008 Conference: June 25-27, 2008 The deadline for submission of papers is STRICT. However, if you submit the title page by Jan. 5 it is sufficient to submit the full paper by Jan. 10.

The 29th annual international Petri Net conference and tutorials will be organised by the Institute of Computing Theory and Technology (ICTT), the Office for International Cooperation and Exchange at the Xidian University, Xi'an, China, and Petri Net Technical Committee, China. Papers presenting original contributions in any area of application and theory of Petri nets are sought. The language of the conference is English.

Topics

The conference takes place under the auspices of 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).

• 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/atpn08/servlet/Conference no later than January 5, 2008.

• 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, 2008. The page limit is 20 pages (10 pages for tool papers).

Program Committee Co-Chair (Theory Papers)	Program Committee Co-Chair (Application and Tool Papers)
Rüdiger Valk University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30 D-22527 Hamburg Germany	Kees van Hee Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Room HG 7.74 Postbus 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands
Phone: +49 40 42883 2408 Fax: +49 40 42883 2246 E-mail:	Phone: +31 40 2472733 Fax: +31 40 2463992 E-mail:
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair	Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair
Jonathan Billington School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095 Australia	Maciej Koutny Newcastle University School of Computing Science Claremont Road Claremont Tower Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU United Kingdom
Phone: +618 8302 3940 Fax: +618 8302 3384 E-mail:	Phone: +44 191 222 7982 Fax: +44 191 222 8232 E-mail:
Organising Committee Chair	Tools Exhibition Chair
Zhenhua Duan Director, Institute of Computing Theory and Technology (ICTT) Xidian University Xi'an 710071 China	Jianjun Qi Institute of Computing Theory and Technology (ICTT) Xidian University Xi'an 710071 China
Phone: +86 (0)29 88202883 Fax: +86 (0)29 88202883 E-mail:	Phone: +86 (0)29 88204723 Fax: +86 (0)29 88202883 E-mail:
Publicity Chair
Bin Yu Institute of Computing Theory and Technology (ICTT) Xidian University Xi'an 710071 China
Phone: +86 (0)29 88204723 Fax: +86 (0)29 88202883 E-mail:

Tutorials and Workshops

The Introductory Tutorial is offered to participants who have little or no prior experience with Petri nets. The talks give an overview of the area, and they will help new-comers to understand the basic ideas in many of the conference contributions. The Advanced Tutorials and Workshops 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 will be possible to arrange meetings for different groups, e.g., participants in international Petri net projects. It will also be possible to arrange small educational courses, e.g., with respect to some of the Petri net tools. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by one of the PC-chairs no later than January 15, 2008.

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials for the 2009 conference in Paris, France.

• 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 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 and tutorial proposals for the 2009 conference should be submitted before June 1, 2008 to the Workshop and Tutorial Committee (Wil van der Aalst, Jonathan Billington, and Susanna Donatelli).

Tool Exhibition

Program Committee

K. Barkaoui, France S. Bernardi, Italy L. Bernardinello, Italy E. Best, Germany D. Buchs, Switzerland J.M. Colom, Spain R. Devillers, Belgium Z. Duan, China J.C.A. de Figueiredo, Brazil G. Franceschinis, Italy L. Gomes, Portugal B. Haverkort, The Netherlands K. van Hee, The Netherlands (co-chair) C. Jard, France C. Jiang, China G. Juhas, Slovak Republic P. Kemper, USA E. Kindler, Denmark V. Khomenko, UK J. Kleijn, The Netherlands

F. Kordon, France L.M. Kristensen, Denmark C. Lakos, Australia Z. Li, China J. Lilius, Finland C. Lin, China R. Lorenz, Germany J. Luo, China T. Miyamoto, Japan P. Moreaux, France M. Mukund, India W. Penczek, Poland M. Pinna, Italy Z. Shan, China K. Tsuji, Japan R. Valk, Germany (co-chair) H. Völzer, Switzerland K. Wolf, Germany M. Zhou, USA

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

Other Major Activities of the Petri Net Community

Petri Net Newsletter

Ekkart Kindler E-mail: eki@imm.dtu.dk URL: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/kindler

Robert Lorenz E-mail: robert.lorenz@ku-eichstaett.de URL: http://www.informatik.ku-eichstaett.de/mitarbeiter/lorenz/index.html

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@daimi.au.dk
  URL: http://person.au.dk/en/kjensen@daimi.au.dk

Advanced Courses on Petri Nets

Petri Net WWW and Petri Net Mailing

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