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CFP: Education of Simulation at WSC2001, Arlington,VA, Dec 9-12, 2001


Dear Colleagues,

A mini-track of Education of Simulation, ,
including 7 sessions  during the Winter Simulation
Conference, WSC2000, Orlando was very successful.
The Program Committee of the WSC2001,
Arlington,VA, Dec 9-12, 2001 has decided to
include this track into the program again.
I would be pleased if you would like to contribute
to this event.
Please find the call for submitting papers or
proposing a panel discussion.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
sincerely yours
Helena Szczerbicka

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helena Szczerbicka

Geschaeftsfuehrende Leiterin
Informatik                 
hsz@informatik.uni-hannover.de
Universitaet Hannover       Tel.: (+49)
0511-762-3296
Welfengarten 1		    Sekr.:(+49) 0511-762-3295
30167 Hannover		    Fax.: (+49) 0511-762-3675 
Raum F431
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Title: Group of Sessions and a panel discussion Education of Simulation at the WSC 2000
"Education of Simulation"  Mini Track

Technical Sessions and a Panel Discussion at the WSC 2001

Winter Simulation Conference 2001

Arlington, Virginia, USA

December9-12, 2001

At the Winter Simulation Conference 2000 in Orlando, the Minitrack Education of Simulation  containing seven sessions was a big success. A series of following discussions, conversations and exchanges on the topic of personnel to meet the current modeling and simulation demands of the civilian application and world military as well led to the idea of continuing this topic  in the Winter Simulation Conference 2001. We would like to discuss the complex issue of Education of Simulation. A general demand for modeling and simulation professionals can be observed in a large number of enterprises. However computer science graduates are not adequately prepared for employment opportunities involving simulation as a tool in solving problems. Most computer science majors have very limited exposure to simulation . They gain experience in handling of simulation problems by on-job-training. The following questions emerge:

  • What are the reasons for shortages of modeling and simulation professionals?
  • How to organize education of simulation to make it attractive for students?
  • What are criteria on selection of tools for teaching simulation?
  • What are educational strategies to meet current and anticipated world needs in simulation?
  • What are the goals of an educational curriculum for simulation?
  • What skills should professionals develop during the education and training?
We expect contributions from academia, military, enterprises using simulation software and developers of simulation software which will provide a solid basis for evaluation of the situation and formulate some recommendations for the future direction of simulation education. We would like to collect people from educational institutions that currently offer simulation program and non educational organizations with interests in simulation education to address issues related to the growth and need of degree programs in simulation in a panel discussion. The proposed issue should be discussed in two groups of topics:

Educational Curriculum for Degree Programs in Simulation

  • experience of academicians teaching simulation regarding curriculum, especially universities offering a degree in simulation
  • requirements on skills of simulation professionals formulated in application domains, and by simulation software developers.
  • requirements on content of simulation courses coming from engineering and science.
  • Should simulation program be an interdisciplinary education with an independent degree on simulation , or should be a collection of specialized, on-demand lessons ?
  • should different types of students be reflected in curricula ?:
  • Computer science majors with strong knowledge of programming
  • Engineering students with strong knowledge in technical application domains
  • Business students, without knowledge of computer and statistics
  • refreshing courses for managers and experienced simulations professionals
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  • future developments in simulation: what do we educate simulation professionals for ?
Teaching methods and tools
  • Web-based teaching of simulation
  • distributed education of simulation (combined curricula from different universities)
  • requirements on simulation tools for education purposes
  • visualization of internal processes (event lists, timer schedules) and parallel operation /interactions
  • visualization of optimization processes and algorithms
  • a repository of free sources of simulation related software (list of vendors and universities)
  • special student and academic license models, licenses for small commercial projects (e.g ."Laboratory Fee" licensing for students)
Please submit papers and proposals for participation in a panel discussion due to April 1, 2001 to :

Track Chair

Helena Szczerbicka University of Hannover helena@informatik.uni-hannover.de

Deadlines and Requirements regarding the WSC 2001 can be found at: http://www.wintersim.org/ 

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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/Management/Maths 
research group on stochastic simulation at the University of 
Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand,
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Prof. Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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