Call for Papers and Participation

CPN'99

Second Workshop and Tutorial on Practical Use of
Coloured Petri Nets and Design/CPN

October 11-15, 1999

Invited Lectures by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon,
Hartmann Genrich, and Robert M. Shapiro

Unfortunately, the invited lecture by Carl Adam Petri
has been cancelled due to health problems

Organised by the CPN group at
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Deadline for submissions: August 2, 1999
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 1999
Deadline for final papers: September 20, 1999
Deadline for registration: September 20, 1999

Further information:
URL: http://www.daimi.au.dk/CPnets/workshop99/
E-mail: CPNworkshop@daimi.au.dk

Coloured Petri Nets and the Design/CPN tools are now used by more than 500 organisations in 40 different countries all over the world (including 100 commercial companies). The purpose of this event 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 the Design/CPN tools.

The event takes place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and it is open for engineers, researchers and students at all levels. Aarhus is situated at the East coast of Jutland (the main land of Denmark). It is easily accessible by plane, train and car.

Tutorial on the use of Design/CPN -- Monday

Prior to the workshop, we offer a 1-day tutorial for people who want to get an introduction to some of the new and more advanced features of the Design/CPN tool. This tutorial is aimed at engineers, students and researchers who already have some experience with the use of Coloured Petri Nets and Design/CPN.

History and Plans -- Tuesday

1999 is the 20 year anniversary of Coloured Petri Nets and the 10 year anniversary of Design/CPN. Hence, we use Tuesday to take a "historic perspective" of Coloured Petri Nets and their tools. We are very proud to announce that Carl Adam Petri has promised to open this section. The preliminary programme is as follows:

Morning session -- The Past

Carl Adam Petri: The origin of net theory
Hartmann Genrich: The birth of high-level Petri Nets.
Robert Shapiro: The GMD Petri Net tool and the early versions of Design/CPN
Kurt Jensen: Coloured Petri Nets and the later versions of Design/CPN

Afternoon session -- The Future

Søren Christensen: The next versions of the CPN tools
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: Design of a new user interface for the CPN tools
Kjeld H. Mortensen: Tool support for more efficient simulations
Lars M. Kristensen: Improved tool support for state space analysis
Lisa M. Wells & Bo Lindstrøm: Improved tool support for performance analysis
Kurt Jensen: The Hewlett-Packard CPN Centre

Workshop -- Wednesday-Friday

The 3-day workshop will present a number of applications of Coloured Petri Nets and their tools. The programme will consist of:

An invited lecture by Carl Adam Petri, entitled "From Basic Nets to Continuous Modelling", showing that certain (computer-) implementable nets have all the essential characteristics of infinite topologies such as Rⁿ. Net compilation is explained; the "unaccountable" numbers Q and R are introduced and their role in the practice of computing is investigated.
Presentations of projects in which Coloured Petri Nets and the Design/CPN tools have been put to practical use.
Presentations of improvements and extensions of the Design/CPN tools.
Discussion of proposals and plans for the future development of Design/CPN.

In 1998 there was 17 presentations from 11 different countries.

Submissions

We hereby solicit submissions for the workshop. Each submission should present a CPN project, a Design/CPN improvement/extension, or other materials relevant for the workshop. It must have the form of a 10-20 page paper, provided either as a PostScript file or a PDF document. Submissions should be sent to: CPNworkshop@daimi.au.dk before August 2, 1999.

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings which will appear as a technical report of the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus. This means that the proceedings will be informal and with limited distribution. Hence, papers may be resubmitted to other workshops/conferences, e.g. the International Petri Net Conference.

The papers will also be available in electronic form via the CPN Web pages at the University of Aarhus. Finally, we plan to publish the best papers in a journal (after an additional round of reviewing).

The submissions will be evaluated by an international programme 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.au.dk)
H. Genrich      Germany         (hartmann.genrich@gmd.de)
N. Husberg      Finland         (Nisse.Husberg@hut.fi)
K. Jensen       Denmark (chair) (kjensen@daimi.au.dk)
C. Lakos        Australia       (Charles.Lakos@adelaide.edu.au)
A. Levis        USA             (alevis@gmu.edu)
D. Moldt        Germany         (moldt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
L. Petrucci     France          (petrucci@lsv.ens-cachan.fr)
D. Simpson      UK              (Dan.Simpson@brighton.ac.uk)
E. Stear        USA             (estear@aol.com)
R. Valette      France          (robert@laas.fr)
R. Valk         Germany         (valk@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
K. Voss         Germany         (klaus.voss@gmd.de)
W. Zuberek      Canada          (wlodek@cs.mun.ca)

Registration

To register please send an e-mail to CPNworkshop@daimi.au.dk, indicating the name, position, affiliation and e-mail address of the partcipant(s). The deadline for registration is September 20, 1999.

The fee is 1,500 DKK (approximately 225 US $). This covers participation in the full 5-day programme, a copy of the proceedings, five lunches, and the workshop dinner.

The fee is paid during the workshop. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept credit cards. Hence, you must pay in cash (only DKK) or by check (again only DKK). Checks must be made out to the University of Aarhus.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be at Hotel Plaza.

  Plaza Hotel Aarhus
  Banegaardspladsen 14
  Postbox 5034
  DK-8100  Aarhus C
  Denmark
  Phone: +45 8732 0100
  Fax:   +45 8732 0199

This is a nice old hotel located in the City Centre (200 m from the railway station and the airport bus terminal). The distance to the workshop site is approximately 2 km.

Single room, 580 DKK pr night (approx. 85 US $)
Double room, 730 DKK pr night (approx. 105 US $)

Prices include breakfast.

To make a hotel reservation please send an e-mail to CPNworkshop@daimi.au.dk. Upon departure you pay the hotel directly. The hotel accepts all major credit cards.

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