PNC04 Workshop

First International Workshop on Coordination and Petri Nets

Bologna, Italy circa 21 June, 2004

Organized by Paolo Ciancarini

The objective of the First International Workshop on Petri Nets and Coordination is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the broader issues of describing and analyzing coordination and interaction problems using Petri Nets or similar formalisms. Coordination is necessary to enable efficient resource use, synchronization of agent actions, and informed balancing of decision tradeoffs in achieving agents' goals. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including models of coordination, integration of heterogeneous services, control of interactions at social and organizational levels,, behavioral modeling of multi-agent interactions, support tools for engineering coordination architectures.

Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and will be limited to approximately 30 people. To participate, please submit a technical paper describing original research or significant applications to the Workshop chair. Preference will be given to work that addresses one or more of the themes listed below. A small number of "interested observers" may also be invited to attend. If you would like to be considered for attendance on this basis, please submit a request by email to the Program Chair justifying your participation.

To encourage participants to relate their work to the workshop themes beforehand, papers are solicited for (but not strictly limited to) the following themes:

  1. Studying and comparing coordination models using Petri Nets.
  2. Coordination/Interaction Analysis: The identification, encoding, and use of Petri Nets or similar formalisms for studying coordination and interaction problems.
  3. Modeling coordination and interaction in Enterprises and Organizations: the automation of either cooperative problem-solving activities (such as distributed interpretation or diagnosis) or coordination activities (such as service orchestration or resource allocation).
  4. Modeling e-commerce or workflow systems using Petri nets or similar formalisms.

LOCATION:
The workshop, a one-day event, is a satellite event of the main Petri Nets and application Conference, that in 2004 will take place in Bologna, Italy, on 21-26 June, 2004.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Papers for review should be a maximum length of 15 pages, in PDF format (LNCS style is suggested). Please submit by email to CPN04@cs.unibo.it. Also, please include an electronic mail address for the appropriate contact person along with the submission.

DATES:
Deadline for paper: March 1, 2004. Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004. Final papers due (for distribution at the Workshop): April 20, 2004.

We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or in a published collection.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Paolo Ciancarini (chair)
Gul Agha
Nadia Busi
Giorgio DeMichelis
Rocco DeNicola
Giovanna DiMarzo Serugendo
Dan Marinescu
Ugo Montanari
Vladimiro Sassone
Carolyn Talcott
Robert Tolksdorf
Wil Van der Alst
Gianluigi Zavattaro