International Workshop on Biological Processes & Petri Nets (BioPPN)
A satellite event of Petri Nets 2010 - Braga, Portugal, June 21 2010
http://www-dssz.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/BME/PetriNets2010
Submission deadline extended to 31th march. Due to some requests, we
now also accept submission of short papers (see below).
Technical Description
Integrative biology, made possible by the spectacular growth of
biological information, intends to decipher essential biological
processes that are driven by complex mechanisms, involving
miscellaneous interacting molecular compounds. In this context, the
need for appropriate mathematical and computational modelling tools is
widely advocated. Since about 15 years Petri nets have proved their
usefulness for the modelling, analysis, and simulation of a diversity
of biological networks, covering discrete, stochastic, continuous and
hybrid models. The deployment of Petri nets to study biological
applications has not only generated original models, but has also
motivated fundamental research. Indeed, because of their complexity,
size and heterogeneity, biological networks raise distinctive
challenges to the modeller. The goal of this workshop is to provide a
platform for researchers aiming at such fundamental research and real
life applications.
Topics:
* standard Petri nets for qualitative modelling, if kinetics are
unknown or deliberately abstracted;
* discrete quantitative modelling by time Petri nets, or stochastic
Petri nets to account for intrinsic noise of molecular fluctuation,
and/or sources of extrinsic noise;
* Ordinary Differential Equations and continuous Petri nets, back and
forth;
* hybrid Petri nets, or how to handle different abstraction and time
scales in biological processes;
* case studies of metabolic, signalling, regulatory, and combined
networks, or other biological applications;
* analysis and simulation techniques, and related tools, including
exchange formats, dedicated to biological processes.
Scope
Original and effective solutions are needed to study complex
biological networks. As a matter of fact, while the biologists are now
able to generate prodigious amounts of data, there is still an urgent
need for dedicated computational and mathematical tools to decipher
the control of complex cellular processes.
This workshop intends to gather researchers interested in the
application of Petri nets for biological applications. Its main goal
will be to demonstrate that this field of application raises new
challenges for the Petri net community, and that Petri nets can be
effective to tackle such challenges.
Paper submission
Full papers should be at most 15 p. in LNCS format, and will have to
be submitted via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioppn2010
. Submitted papers should describe original work that has not been
previously published and is not under review for publication
elsewhere. We also invite "work in progress" papers, which have to be
indicated as such.
Short papers presenting original results should not exceed 6 pages in
LNCS format, including figures, tables and references (submission via
EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioppn2010).
Short papers may be selected for oral presentation.
Workshop Proceedings
Will be published by the hosting university.
Special Issue
Best papers will be proposed to be invited for the follow-up
publication in Transactions on Petri Nets and other models of
Concurrency (ToPNoC).
Organizers
Claudine Chaouiya, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, IGC, Oeiras,
Portugal, chaouiya (at) igc.gulbenkian.pt
Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
Computer Science Institute, Germany, monika.heiner (at) informatik.tu-
cottbus.de
Program Committee
* David Angeli, I, UK
* Gianfranco Balbo, I
* Rainer Breitling, NL
* David Gilbert, UK
* Simon Hardy, CA
* Ralf Hofestädt, D
* Peter Kemper, US
* Hanna Klaudel, F
* Kurt Lautenbach, D
* Wolfgang Marwan, D
* Eduardo Mendoza, Philippines, D
* Satoru Miyano, JP
* P.S. Thiagarajan, SG
Deadlines
* March 31: Submission of papers.
* May 1: Notification of acceptance/rejection.
* June 1: Final version of papers.
* August 1: Proposals from the Workshop PCs for papers to be invited
to the Joint Postproceeding in ToPNoC.
* September 1: Invitations are sent by the ToPNoC editors to the
invited authors.
