CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

Special issue on  "Hybrid Petri Nets"

Aims and scope

Nowadays Petri nets are recognized as a powerful modelling approach for Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS), especially when pursuing objectives related to performance analysis, optimization and control. Much effort has recently been devoted to extend Petri net modelling capabilities to encompass both event-driven and time-driven dynamics. As a result, a family of related formalisms know as Hybrid Petri Nets has been conceived. Hybrid Petri Nets provide a single consistent framework to describe the discrete-event and continuous-time subparts of hybrid systems, which have being attracting everincreasing attention in the control community.

This special issue of the journal Discrete Event Dynamic Systems will be the first one ever published on Hybrid Petri Nets, and as such will include papers that:

  •  describe the state-of-the-art in this domain of research;
  •  present effective hybrid Petri net models;
  •  extend Petri net analysis techniques proper to discrete models to hybrid models;
  •  show examples of application.

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    Submissions

    Papers are to be sent in four copies to one of the Editors. Email submissions of postscript files are also acceptable.

    The manuscript should include a cover page containing the title of the paper, full name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of about 200 words, and a list of 3-5 keywords. The corresponding author, who should be clearly indicated, should add his complete mail address, phone and fax number, and electronic mail address.

    The average paper length should not exceed 24 double-spaced pages.
     

    Deadlines

      Submission of manuscripts 
      October 1, 1999 
      Notification of acceptance 
    February 1, 2000 
      Submission of camera-ready manuscript 
      April 1, 2000
      Special issue is published
      Fall 2000

    Web homepage:  http://www.diee.unica.it/~giua/deds-hpn.html

    Guest editors:

    Prof. Angela Di Febbraro
     Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
     Politecnico di Torino
     Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
     10129 Torino, Italy
     E-mail: difebbraro@polito.it

    Prof. Alessandro Giua
     Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica
     Universita' di Cagliari
     Piazza d'Armi
     09123 Cagliari, Italy
     E-mail: giua@diee.unica.it

    Prof. Giuseppe Menga
     Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
     Politecnico di Torino
     Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
     10129 Torino, Italy
     E-mail: menga@polito.it