PNSE 2014 - International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'14)

For the successful realisation of complex systems of interacting and reactive software and hardware components the use of a precise language at different stages of the development process is of crucial importance. Petri nets are becoming increasingly popular in this area, as they provide a uniform language supporting the tasks of modelling, validation, and verification. Their popularity is due to the fact that Petri nets capture fundamental aspects of causality, concurrency and choice in a natural and mathematically precise way without compromising readability.
The workshop PNSE'14 (Petri Nets and Software Engineering) will take place as a satellite event of Petri Nets 2014 and ACSD 2014.
The use of Petri Nets (P/T-Nets, Coloured Petri Nets and extensions) in the formal process of software engineering, covering modelling, validation, and verification, will be presented as well as their application and tools supporting the disciplines mentioned above.
Topics
We welcome contributions describing original research in topics related to Petri nets in combination with software engineering, addressing open problems or presenting new ideas regarding the relation of Petri nets and software engineering. Furthermore we look for surveys addressing open problems and new applications of Petri nets. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Modelling
representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts
guidelines for the construction of system models
representative examples
process-, service-, state-, event-, object- and agent-oriented approaches
adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines
views and abstractions of systems
model-driven architecture
modelling software landscapes
web service-based software development
Validation and Execution
prototyping
simulation, observation, animation
code generation and execution
testing and debugging
process mining
efficient implementation
Verification
structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules)
results for structural subclasses of nets
relations between structure and behaviour
state space based approaches
efficient model checking
assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics)
process algebraic methods
applications of category theory and linear logic
general analysis for software engineering contexts
Application of Petri nets in Software Engineering, in particular the use of Petri nets in the domains of
flexible manufacturing,
logistics,
telecommunication,
workflow management and
embedded systems.
Tools in the fields mentioned above