From: Kurt Jensen <kjensen@daimi.au.dk>
To: petrinet@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:49:19 +0100
Subject: (PN) Tool Exhibition in Turku

Dear members of the Petri net community,

The Steering Committee has decided to replace the tool 
demonstrations, which usually has taken place over the entire Petri 
net conference by a 2-3 hour scheduled Exhibition of Petri net Tools 
-- to take place Tuesday or Wednesday evening. The change has effect 
already from the conference in Turku, June 2006.

The Tool Exhibition consists of informal demonstrations for small 
groups/individuals without any scheduled talks and it will usually be 
combined with a small informal reception.

Requests for participation in the tool exhibition are sent to the 
Tool Exhibition chair before June 1. They should include a link to 
the web pages for the tool (or a short description of the tool). The 
demonstrators usually bring their own machines, but the organisers 
may be requested to give access to the Internet.

By having a scheduled Tool Exhibition session (instead of 3-4 days of 
unscheduled tool demonstrations) we achieve the following:

- The tool exhibition becomes much more visible for the conference 
participants (since it has its own scheduled time slot in the 
conference programme).

- The tool exhibition can be combined with an informal reception with 
some drinks and snacks. In this way the tool exhibition becomes a 
"social event" which will attract more conference participants.

- The tool demonstrators only need to be available for 2-3 hours. 
Hence, they can follow the other parts of the conference programme 
without any problems. If requested they can of course make additional 
demonstrations in some of the breaks (or parallel to some of the 
sessions which they do not want to attend).

There will not be any proceedings from the Tool Exhibition. The 
conference web-pages will have a list of the demonstrated tools with 
a link to the home page of each tool. Moreover, the individual 
demonstrators are allowed to bring and distribute printed material 
describing their tool.

It is of course still possible to submit tool presentations, which 
now are called tool papers (this is too late for Turku). The tool 
papers are presented during the ordinary conference sessions and they 
are submitted at the same deadline as the other conference papers.

Kurt Jensen
SC chair
  

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