Workshop and Tutorial on Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and Design/CPN,
June 8-12, 1998, Aarhus Denmark

Preface for the Proceedings of the CPN Workshop

Preface

This booklet contains the proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and Design/CPN. The papers are also available in electronic form via the CPN Web pages at University of Aarhus: http://www.daimi.aau.dk/CPnets/
Coloured Petri Nets and the Design/CPN tools are now used by more than 400 organisations in 38 countries all over the world (including 100 commercial companies). The aim of the workshop is to bring together some of the users and in this way provide a forum for those who are interested in the practical use of Coloured Petri Nets and their tools.
The workshop is organised by the CPN group at Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. It takes place June 10-12, 1998 and it is preceded by a CPN tutorial, June 8-9.
The submitted papers were evaluated by a programming committee with the following members:

H. Ammar        USA             (ammar@ece.wvu.edu)
J. Billington   Australia       (j.billington@unisa.edu.au)
C. Capellmann   Germany         (capellmann@tzd.telekom.de)
S. Christensen  Denmark         (schristensen@daimi.aau.dk)
H. Genrich      Germany         (hartmann.genrich@gmd.de)
N. Husberg      Finland         (Nisse.Husberg@hut.fi)
K. Jensen       Denmark (chair) (kjensen@daimi.aau.dk)
D. Moldt        Germany         (moldt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
L. Petrucci     France          (petrucci@iie.cnam.fr)
D. Simpson      UK              (Dan.Simpson@brighton.ac.uk)
R. Valette      France          (robert@laas.fr)
R. Valk         Germany         (valk@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
K. Voss         Germany         (klaus.voss@gmd.de)

The programming committee has accepted 17 papers for presentation. Two thirds of the accepted papers deal with different projects in which Coloured Petri Nets and their tools have been put to practical use - most of these in an industrial setting. The remaining papers deal with different tool extensions.
After an additional round of reviewing and revision, some of the best papers from the workshop will be published as a special section in the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).

Kurt Jensen