Call for Papers and Other Useful Academic Information

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Advanced Course on Petri Nets

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The next advanced course on Petri Nets will take place in Rostock =
Germany in
September 2010. We plan to have a program of two weeks, an introductory =
one
and an advanced one. For the introductory week, we try a concept of
presenting theoretical results in the immediate context of convincing
applications and associated tools. For the advanced week, we plan to =
have a
number of state-of-the-art lectures with a mixture of lecturers from =
within
the community and from neighbouring fields. More details can be found on =
the
course web pages:

http://www.petrinet-summerschool.org/ (which are under construction).

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Transactions on Petri Nets and other models of Concurrency

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ToPNoC is now =93ready to fly=94, i.e. to have its first volumes =93on =
the
street=94:

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* The volume based on workshop papers from Siedlce is nearly finished
(with Wil van der Aalst and Jonathan Billington as editors).=20
* The volume based on workshop papers from Xi=92an has been initiated
shortly after the conference (with Jonathan Billington and Maciej Koutny =
as
editors).=20
* Wil van der Aalst is the editor of a topical volume on Process-Aware
Information Systems.=20
* Susanna Donatelli is the editor of a topical volume on Recent
Advances in Sstochastic/Probabilistic Issues.=20

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As for all other journals, it is also possible to submit papers directly =
to
ToPNoC and the first two such submissions were received shortly before =
the
Xi=92an conference. Papers which are accepted based on direct =
submissions will
appear in one of the volumes described above. The choice of volume will
depend on the contents of the paper (and timing). Kurt Jensen will (as
editor-in-chief) handle the evaluation of such submissions or delegate =
the
handling to one of the members of the editorial board. More information
about ToPNoC can be found on: www.springer.com/lncs/topnoc/

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W&T chairs and W&T committee

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Each conference has two W&T chairs who are responsible for all the
=93practical things=94 around workshops and tutorials, such as:

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* call for proposals, evaluation of these and recommendations for the
SC meeting,=20
* selection and evaluation of revised papers for the ToPNoC volume.

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The W&T chairs for the next conferences are:

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* 2009 Paris Maciej Koutny and Susanna Donatelli

* 2010 Braga Susanna Donatelli and Jetty Kleijn

* 2011 ??? Jetty Kleijn and Wil van der Aalst =20

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There is also a W&T committee consisting of Wil van der Aalst, Jonathan
Billington and Susanna Donatelli supplemented with the relevant W&T =
chairs.
The committee takes care of larger more political questions, such as:

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* change of the format for tutorials and workshops=20
* change of the deadlines for proposals.=20

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It is also the W&T committee who together with the SC chair appoints the
future W&T chairs.=20

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New Japanese SC member

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Sadatoshi Kumagai has stepped down from the Steering Committee, since he =
has
left his professorship at Osaka University. The steering committee has
decided to replace Kumagai by professor Kunihiko Hiraishi from the JAIST
School of Information Science. The SC wants to thank Sadatoshi for all =
the
work which he has done for the Petri Net community =96 both =
internationally
and in Japan. It has always been a great pleasure to work with him =
during
all these years. Thank you very much.

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We expect all SC members to participate regularly in our conferences and =
to
contribute actively to the Petri Net activities in the person=92s home
country. If an SC member is absent from the SC meeting three years in a =
row
the SC will discuss whether the SC member should leave the committee =
(unless
there are special temporary reasons for the absence).

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Redesign of the introductory tutorial

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A small committee consisting of J=F6rg Desel, Jetty Kleijn, Wolfgang =
Reisig
and Fabrice Kordon/Laure Petrucci (as representative for the organisers =
in
France) will work on a revision of the format for the introductory =
tutorial.
The name of the event should be more attractive and reflect that it is
advanced material presented by some of the best persons in the field. =
One
idea is to change the tutorial to be a set of =93advanced =
mini-courses=94. Each
mini-course could run for 3-4 hours and have 1-2 presenters. It should =
be
possible to follow only some of the =93advanced mini-courses=94. Some of =
them
may be presented each year, while others could be present only each =
second
or third year.=20

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Physical or electronic PC-meeting

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A large majority of the Sc members want to keep the physical PC meeting. =
The
last couple of years the meeting has been supplemented with the use of
discussion forums in the conference system. This has made it possible =
for PC
members who cannot attend the PC meeting to play a more active role in =
the
discussions.

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In the invitation to the European PC members we tell that we expect them =
to
participate in the PC meeting. In the future we will also tell all PC
members that we expect them to participate in the conference.

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Requirements and evaluation of tool papers

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Kees van Hee and five other members of the PC for Xi=92an have written a
10-page paper which describes how a good tool paper can look. The paper =
has
been revised and submitted to the Petri Net Newsletter. The Call for =
Papers
for the future conferences will have a sentence which refers to the =
paper
and proposes that authors of tool papers consult the paper for =
information
about how a good tool paper can look and what it should contain=20

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Selection of organisers for 2010 and 2011

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It was decided to accept the proposal to organise the 2010 conference in
Braga, Portugal with Jo=E3o Fernandes, Ricardo Marchado and Jo=E3o =
Barros as
organisers. Here the Petri Net conference will once again be co-located =
with
the ACSD-conference.

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We have received a proposal to organise the 2011 conference in Santiago =
de
Compostela, Spain. However, we do not want to have the conference in =
Europe
for three consecutive years and it would also be a little bit strange to
have two consecutive conferences only a few hundred kilometres from each
other. Hence we will look for candidates outside Europe for the 2011
conference. Kunihiko Hiraishi is working on a proposal from Japan and =
Kamel
Barkaoui is working on a proposal from Tunis. The proposers from Spain =
have
been informed that they are welcome to resubmit their proposal for 2012.

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Workshops and Advanced Tutorials for Paris

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For the 2009 conference in Paris we have accepted the following three
workshops:

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* Workshop on Abstractions for Petri Nets and Other Models of
Concurrency (APNOC).
Natalia Sidorova and Alexander Serebrenik =20
* Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE)
Daniel Moldt=20
* Workshop on Organizational Modeling (ORGMOD)
Daniel Moldt, Olivier Boissier and Michael K=F6hler-Bu=DFmeier=20

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In addition to this we are working on 2-3 other possibilities for =
workshops.
Last year it was decided to move the deadline for proposals for Advanced
Tutorials to January 5 (i.e. the same deadline as for papers to the
conference). If you have proposals for workshops or advanced tutorials
please contact the W&T chairs (Maciej Koutny and Susanna Donatelli)

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Invited speakers for Paris

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The 2009 conference in Paris is co-located with the International =
Symposium
on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP). Together with the RSP steering =
committee
it has been decided to invite:

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* Joseph Sifakis=20
* Grzegorz Rozenberg and Gabriel Juhas from the Petri Net community.
* Bernard Courtois and Steve Miller from the RSP community.

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