Preliminary Announcement
Advanced Course on Petri Nets
Toruń, Poland, September 3-8, 2023
https://acpn2023.mat.umk.pl
Petri nets are the first formal model for concurrent and distributed
systems, and still today they remain a leading research and application
framework. After more than half a century of development, the field has
been deepened theoretically, and Petri nets are used to model, analyse,
and build a wide range of real-life systems with the support of a
plethora of algorithmic techniques and implemented tools.
The Petri net approach is based on the locality of states and local
effects of actions. It underlies many other methodologies and graphical
modelling techniques, which over the decades inherited core concepts,
design approaches, and analytical results from the area of Petri nets.
Examples of Petri net applications include distributed algorithms,
embedded systems, communication protocols, hardware systems, as well as
models of Internet services and business processes, many of them much
more recent than Petri nets themselves.
Next to the annual conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
taking place since 1980, the Petri Net community organises every 7-10
years an Advanced Course on Petri Nets, which covers the respective
current state of the art both in Petri net theory and in applications of
Petri nets. In particular, the attendees have a unique opportunity to
learn about Petri nets as a foundation for various successful real-life
applications.
Typical attendees are PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from
all over the world who work, or intend to work, with Petri nets. Also,
it proved to be attractive to more senior researchers who wanted to
broaden their expertise.
So far there have been five Advanced Courses: Hamburg'78, Bad Honnef'86,
Dagstuhl'96, Eichstättt'03, and Rostock'10. The 6th Advanced Course on
Petri Nets will take place in Toruń, Poland, from 3rd September 2023 to
8th September 2023. Initially, the course has been scheduled for
September 2020, however, due to the pandemic situation related to
Covid-19, it had to be postponed.
The program of the 6th Advanced Course is directed towards successful
Petri net applications, case studies, and tools, introduced after
lectures on fundamental issues and presentations on new advanced topics
and results. In particular, the Sunday lectures will focus on the
foundations. After that, the theory lectures will be interleaved with
tutorials and practical classes. Each tutorial will include an
introduction to an application domain, hands-on experience with the
relevant tool, and a realistic case study. All lecturers will be
delivered by international experts in their respective fields.
In addition to lectures and tutorials we plan to organise a poster
session to give PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss
their research results (more information will be available through the
webpage in due course).
Fees (including participation in all sessions, lunches, and coffee
breaks):
We plan the course fee to be around 300-350 EUR (more information will
be available through the webpage in due course).
Invited speakers
* Elvio Amparore, University of Torino, Italy
* Kamila Barylska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
* Joerg Desel, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
* Susanna Donatelli, University of Torino, Italy
* Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Jetty Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands
* Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
* Lars Kristensen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
* Sławomir Lasota, University of Warsaw, Poland
* Xixi Lu, Utrecht University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Łukasz Mikulski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
* Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Laure Petrucci, LIPN - Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
* Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
* Karsten Wolf, University of Rostock, Germany
* Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Student grants:
We plan to provide a small number of grants covering the participation
fee for PhD students (more information will be available through the
webpage in due course).
We would appreciate it if you could distribute this announcement to
potential attendees.
For more information, please, do not hesitate to contact organisers at:
acpn2...@mat.umk.pl
Best regards,
Marcin Piątkowski
OC Chair of Advanced Course on Petri Nets 2023
