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Call for Papers

        International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering
        PNSE’26, Hamburg, Germany, June 22, 2026
        http://www.pnse.de/     

        PNSE’26 is a satellite event of PETRI NETS’26 
        47th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets 
and Concurrency
        https://conf-2026.petrinet.net/


This year we celebrate the 100th birthday of Carl Adam Petri. 

The conference takes place in Hamburg where Petri held an honorary 
professorship.



Scope

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. 

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 and for Petri nets.



                              Important Dates:

Abstracts:                                      23      March   2026
Deadline for papers:                    30      March   2026
Notification of paper acceptance:       30      April           2026
Deadline for posters:                   4       May             2026
Notification of poster acceptance:      6       May             2026
Deadline for final revisions:           8       May             2026




                                    Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 - Software Engineering
    agile development
    product lines
    software in business contexts
    software development and production environments; DevOps; IDEs; 
continuous integration
    programming and concurrency
    technologies: hadoop / MapReduce; akka, Spark; Flink; STORM etc.
    distributed database technology: redis; cassandra; CouchDB; mongoDB etc.
    concepts for mobility, concurrency, non-determinism, distribution, 
embedding, flexibility
    social concepts for norms, rules, contracts, communication, 
co-ordination, co-operation
    software engineering addressing Petri nets, UML techniques, BPMN, BPEL, 
eEPCs, CMMN and other modelling techniques
 
 - Modelling
    representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts
    guidelines for the construction of system models
    adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines
    views and abstractions of systems
    meta-modelling and domain specific languages (DSLs)
    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
    efficient implementation
 
 - Verification
    structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules)
    results for structural subclasses of nets
    state space based approaches
    efficient model checking
    assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics)
    process algebraic methods
    model and graph transformation
    applications of category theory, rewriting logic and linear logic

 - Application of Petri nets and Software Engineering, in particular in the 
domains of …
    education, training and teaching at any level,
    flexible manufacturing,
    logistics,
    telecommunication,
    big data,
    cyber-physical systems,
    internet-of-things,
    grid and cloud computing,
    distributed systems,
    workflow management and
    embedded systems.

 - Tools in the fields mentioned above



                               Submissions

The program committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to
20 pages excluding references) or short contributions (5 - 8 pages 
excluding references). Ongoing work (up to 3 pages including references) 
can be presented in a special poster session.

Papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the CEUR latex style:

        http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, 
keywords and an abstract. For your submission please use the track
"International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering 2026" at:

        https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2026

The papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted contributions will be
included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the
workshop and published online.

The best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume 
of the 
journal sub-line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions 
on 
Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected 
to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of 
reviewing.




                        PC Chairs

Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Heiko Rölke, FH Graubünden, Austria
Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, University of Applied Science Hamburg, Germany


In case of any comments, questions or problems please contact us via email: 
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