********************************************************** **** Call for Proposals for Workshops (and Tutorials) **** *********** Petri nets 2009 ************* **********************************************************
The 30th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (Petri nets 2009) will take place in Paris (as usual in the last week of June). For this major event, we are inviting people to submit proposals for both tutorials and workshops. - The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal setting for workshop participants to discuss technical issues, exchange research ideas, and to discuss and or demonstrate applications. These workshops may be driven by fundamental academic interests or by needs from specific application domains. We encourage a diversity of workshops relating to Petri nets. - Proposals for high-quality tutorials on Petri nets or related to Petri nets, from academic research to industrial applications, are solicited. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. A tutorial's basic purpose is to introduce researchers to a new or emerging area or to provide deeper insight into a particular topic. Tutorials can be one day or half a day. All workshop/tutorial proposals must be written in English. (1) Workshop Proposal Requirements Proposals for workshops should be no more than 3 pages in length and submitted to the W&T committee before June 1st 2008 (see below). A workshop proposal should include a draft call-for-papers containing at least the following information: - Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be its focus. - A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the Program Committee (PC) chairs, i.e., the workshop organizers. Moreover, a tentative list of workshop PC members should be given. We suggest one or two PC chairs and at least 10 PC members coming from different countries. Moreover, the following additional information is requested: - A list of related workshops or similar events to be held in the same year or within the previous two years. - A description of the qualifications of the workshop organizers with respect to organizing this workshop (e.g., papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop organization, other relevant information). Each workshop program committee (in particular the chairs) will be responsible for the following: - Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop. - Providing a brief description of the workshop for the Petri Nets conference web page and program and providing a workshop web page the Petri Nets conference can refer to for details. - Selecting the papers for the workshop proceedings and providing the camera ready copies ready for publication. - All advertising of the workshop beyond web page advertising. - Appointing session chairs, etc. The local organization of the Petri net conference will take care of the production of each (informal) workshop proceedings. After the conference we will invite a number of the best workshop papers to contribute to a Joint Post-proceedings, to be published in the new subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC), i.e., a selection of papers from all workshops will be combined into a single volume. The revised papers will go through an additional round of reviewing. Note that the W&T chairs will be responsible for liaison with the publisher, organising the additional round of reviewing and the final selection. The workshop chairs will play an important role in suggesting papers and the final selection. See http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=4-164-6-417809-0 for more information about ToPNoC. (2) Tutorial Proposal Requirements Proposals for tutorials should be no more than 3 pages in length. Expressions of interest can be sent before June 1st 2008. Full tutorial proposals are due January 5th 2009. A full proposal should contain the following information: - Title and brief technical description of the tutorial. - A brief description of why and to whom the tutorial is of interest for people attending the Petri net conference, i.e., describe the expected audience and the relevance for this audience. - A list of previous venues at which this tutorial (or similar tutorials) has been presented. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the presenters. - A brief biography (approx. 150 words) of each presenter. The local Petri net conference organization will take care of the production of the tutorial notes based on the material provided by the presenters. Submitting a Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Expressions of interest and full proposals may be submitted in any one of the following formats: ASCII text, PostScript, PDF or Microsoft Word. Please send your proposals and any inquiries by electronic mail to all members of the W&T committee: - Wil van der Aalst E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jonathan Billington E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Susanna Donatelli E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Maciej Koutny E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dates: - Deadline workshop proposals: before June 1st 2008 - Notification of decision workshops: August 1st 2008 - Expressions of interest tutorials: before June 1st 2008 - Deadline full tutorial proposal: January 5th 2009 - Notification of decision tutorials: February 1st 2009 - Workshop/tutorial (if accepted): Monday or Tuesday of the conference week (June 2009) ---- [[ Petri Nets World: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/ ]] [[ Mailing list FAQ: ]] [[ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets/pnml/faq.html ]] [[ Post messages/summary of replies: ]] [[ [email protected] ]]
