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SCS Simulation News - May, 2001 - Volume 2, Issue 5

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SCS Simulation News
May, 2001 - Volume 2, Issue 5
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Welcome to this month's SCS Simulation News.  This electronic
newsletter is published monthly and sent to your email address.

Our purpose is to keep SCS members and others in the modeling and
simulation communities up to date on the activities of the Society for
Modeling and Simulation International.  Please forward this newsletter
to friends, peers and colleagues with interests in modeling and
simulation.

Please send comments and suggestions to the newsletter editor,
Bob Lipset--mailto:Newsletter.Editor@scs.org
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Newsletter Contents

1.  News and developments in modeling and simulation
2.  Upcoming conferences
3.  Publications
4.  About SCS
5.  Membership in SCS
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1.  News and developments in modeling and simulation

* The 2002 American Control Conference will be held at the William A.
   Egan Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, on
   May 8-10, 2002.  The ACC is an annual, 3-day event, presenting
   about 800 papers, with over 1200 participants.  This premier
   conference focuses on advances in the theory and practice
   associated with automatic control.  See the conference section
   below for more information.

* Four winners have been selected for the third annual Department of
   Defense sponsored Modeling and Simulation Awards. Awards will be
   presented on May 30 at 4 p.m. during the 10th annual Executive Forum
   on M&S, held May 29-31, at Vienna, Va.  The winners are:
     - The "AIM-9X Sidewinder Modeling and Simulation Team" of the U.S.
       Navy's Air-to-Air Missile Systems Program at Patuxent River, Md.
     - The "Iraqi Force Closure Team" of the U.S. Air Force Studies and
       Analyses Agency in Centreville, Va.
     - The "Joint Training Information Management System Development
       Team" of the Joint Forces Command's Joint Warfighting Center
       at Suffolk, Va.
     - Lt. Col. Charles R. Whitzel of the U.S. Air Force's Force
       Protection Battlelab.
   Visit http://www.dmso.mil/ for more information

* Have you accessed the SCS Publications Archive yet? Please check out
   the most comprehensive M&S research source on the web, now populated
   with more than 1100 documents, including the proceedings of the
   2000 Summer Computer Simulation Conference. It can be accessed from
   http://scs.affinitycity.com
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2.  Upcoming conferences

* 15th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM 2001)
   June 6-9, 2001
   Prague, Czech Republic
   http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/esm2001/

* SIW 2001 European Simulation Interoperability Workshop - Sponsored
   by SCS Europe
   June 25-27, 2001
   Middlesex, UK
   http://www.sisostds.org

* 2001 Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC '01)
   July 15-19, 2001
   Orlando, Florida
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/scsc01/scsc2001cfp.html

* 2001 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of
   Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS '01)
   July 15-19, 2001
   Orlando, Florida
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/spects01/spects01cfp.html

* Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC 2001)
   October, 2001
   Huntsville, Alabama
   Electronic versions of one page abstracts are due by June 30, 2001
   Notification of acceptance on July 15, 2001
   Email a one-page abstract in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format) to:
   mailto:jgauthier@aegistg.com

* 2002 Western Multiconference (WMC 2002)
   January 27 - 31, 2002
   San Antonio, Texas
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/wmc02/wmc2002cfp-gen.html

* 2002 Advanced Simulation Technology Conference (ASTC '02)
   April 14 - 18, 2002
   San Diego, California
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/astc02/cfp/astc2002cfp-gen.html

* 2002 American Control Conference (ACC 2002)
   May 8-10, 2002
   Anchorage, Alaska
   http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~acc2002/
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3.  Publications

Watch this area over the next few months for more information about
the roll-out of these new SCS publications:

* Modeling and Simulation Magazine.  The first issue will appear soon
   as an insert into SIMULATION.  It will continue to be published in
   that format quarterly, throughout 2001.
* SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and
   Simulation, International.  This new publication will unify the
   society's research efforts, beginning in January 2002.
* Our web vault is at http://scs.affinitycity.com  Check it out.
   It will store our growing collection of journal and proceedings
   articles.
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4.  About SCS

* The Society for Modeling and Simulation International is a
   professional society dedicated to the advancement of
   modeling and simulation in all fields.  Read our mission statement
   at http://www.scs.org/mission/missioninfo.html
* Learn more about the SCS organization at
   http://www.scs.org/org/orginfonew.html
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5.  Membership in SCS

* Membership in SCS is open to a wide range of professionals.
   For more information, including an online application, visit
   http://www.scs.org/membrshp/membinfo.html
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