Call for Papers and Announcement

Petri Nets 2001

22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
APPLICATION AND THEORY OF PETRI NETS

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, June 25-29, 2001

Additional information about the conference will be published via
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/conferences/2001/pn

Contact e-mail: pn2001@ncl.ac.uk

The 22nd annual international Petri Net conference and tutorials will be organised by the Department of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Papers presenting original contributions in any area of application and theory of Petri nets are sought. The language of the conference is English. This conference will run together with the 2nd international conference on Application of Concurrency in System Design (ACSD'2001) http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/conferences/2001/acsd.

Topics

The conference takes place under the auspices of: AFCET SIG "Systèmes Parallèles et Distribués" and CNRS-PRS, AICA, BCS SIG "Formal Aspects of Computing Science", EATCS and GI SIG "Petri Nets and Related System Models".

Paper Submissions

Electronic submissions via e-mail are strongly encouraged. Please send a self-contained PostScript file or PDF file. Authors who cannot comply with these instructions should send 6 paper copies. All submissions must be received no later than November 15, 2000.

Papers must be in English. The length of the paper cannot exceed 20 pages, and the paper should be in such a form that it can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revisions. The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late and submissions sent by fax will not be accepted. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by March 1, 2001.

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 Maciej Koutny no later than April 1, 2001. The page limit is 20 pages. Authors should follow the instructions on: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Program Committee Co-Chair (Theoretical Papers)	Program Committee Co-Chair (Application Papers)
Maciej Koutny Department of Computing Science University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom	José-Manuel Colom Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas Centro Politécnico Superior Universidad de Zaragoza María de Luna, 3 50015 Zaragoza Spain
Phone: Fax: E-mail: +44 191 222 7982 +44 191 222 8232 Maciej.Koutny@ncl.ac.uk	Phone: Fax: E-mail: +34 976 762351 +34 976 761914 jm@posta.unizar.es
Organising Committee Chair	Tools Demonstration Chair
Maciej Koutny & Alexandre Yakovlev Department of Computing Science University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU U.K.	Albert Koelmans Department of Computing Science University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU U.K.
Phone: Fax: E-mail: +44 191 222 7982 / 8184 +44 191 222 8232 pn2001@ncl.ac.uk	Phone: Fax: E-mail: +44 191 222 8155 +44 191 222 8232 albert.koelmans@ncl.ac.uk

Tutorials

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 Maciej Koutny before January 15, 2001.

Tools for Petri Nets

A tool presentation must focus on the description of a computer tool for Petri Nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). A rotation principle will be enforced. This means that the same tool cannot be presented year after year -- unless it has been significantly enhanced.

Submissions for Tool Presentations must be in English. The length of the presentation cannot exceed 10 pages, and it should be in such a form that it can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revisions. Submissions must be received by Jose-Manuel Colom before November 15, 2000. Electronic submissions via e-mail are strongly encouraged.

Submissions for tool demonstrations must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by Albert Koelmans before April 1, 2001.

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

Program Committee

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Other Major Activities of the Petri Net Community

Petri Net Newsletter

Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstraße 45 D-53175 Bonn Germany

Fax: +49 228 302 167 E-mail: gs@gi-ev.de

Advances in Petri Nets

Prof. G. Rozenberg Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Leiden University Niels Bohrweg 1 2333 CA Leiden The Netherlands

Phone: +31 71 - 5 277061 Fax: +31 71 - 5 276985 E-mail: rozenber@liacs.nl

Advanced Courses on Petri Nets

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