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SCS Simulation News - December, 2001 - Volume 2, Issue 12

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SCS Simulation News
December, 2001 - Volume 2, Issue 12
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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

* From Axel Lehmann, Chair of the SCS Nominating Committee:

   SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SCS ELECTIONS 2002

   Dear SCS Members,

   Since 1994, as most of you already know, elections for officers of
The 
Society
   and for Directors by membership are held on a biennial basis in 
accordance with
   the terms of office specified in The Society's bylaws. In accordance 
with its
   strategic planning and following a recommendation of the Executive
Committee
   in July this year during its annual meeting, the Board of Directors
passed a
   bylaws change:

   Starting in July 2002 with the new Board, each Member Council-the 
Geographical,
   Technical and Autonomous ones-will be represented by one elected
member 
on the
   Board of Directors.

   Accordingly, at the next elections in spring 2002, each SCS member
has a 
vote
   on positions including:

   *  President
   *  Senior Vice President
   *  Geographical Member Council (GMC)
   *  up to 2 Technical Member Councils (TMC)
   *  up to 6 Directors-at-Large

   It is extremely important for The Society's members to vote for their
   representatives and leadership for the next two-year period in April 
next year.

   It is just as important for the members to help the Nominating
Committee 
and the
   Member Councils in the selection of a list of active and quality
candidates.
   Therefore, membership can respond by submitting the names of
candidates 
for the
   election positions mentioned above. As you select your candidates for 
nomination,
   in addition to thinking about the individual's reputation and 
professional or
   technical background, also think about the candidate's contribution
to a 
Member
   Council or to The Society. For your convenience and for
clarification, 
you will
   find a complete list of all MCs including their geographical area or
their
   professional/technical area, respectively, on the SCS Website, using
the 
link
   below.

   After you make your selection of candidates for nomination, fill out
a
   nomination form (also on the SCS Website), for each candidate. The
candidate
   can help provide the information needed. The nomination forms must be 
returned
   to the SCS office in San Diego before December 31, 2001. Nominations
for the
   Geographical MC's will be copied and also forwarded by the San Diego
office
   to the Council chair.

   The Nominating Committee will attempt to assess the qualifications
and the
   experience of the nominees as completely as possible, and to
recommend the
   best available candidates for The Society's leadership team.

   Information on the slates of candidates recommended by the Nominating 
Committee
   may be obtained from the SCS office following the Nominating
Committee 
meeting
   at the 2002 WMC (January 27-31 in San Antonio, Texas). Anyone who was 
nominated
   but has not been added to the Final List of Nominations will be
informed 
by the
   Nominating Committee no later than January 31, 2002.

   A candidate can be added to the Nominating Committee's slate of 
candidates if
   s/he receives valid signatures of 2% of the total SCS membership (via
letter
   or fax), and returns the petition, along with a completed nomination 
form, to
   the Nominating Committee (in care of the SCS Office in San Diego) by
the
   end of February 2002. The election, via mail ballot by all the 
membership for
   all vacant positions in addition to the election of Regional Council 
Chairman,
   will be held in April 2002.

   The nomination form can be found on the SCS Website at
   http://www.scs.org/election/membercouncils.html
   Axel Lehmann, Chairman, SCS Nominating Committee
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2.  Upcoming conferences

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

* 2002 AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems (AIS'2002)
   April 7 - 10, 2002
   Lisbon, Portugal
   http://ais2002.dei.uc.pt

* 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/

* 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2002)
   May 12 - 15, 2002
   Washington, DC (USA)
   http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~quaglia/pads2002

* 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation
   of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2002)
   San Diego, California
   July 14-18, 2002
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/spects02

* InterSymp 2002 - 14th International Conference on Systems Research,
   Informatics and Cybernetics
   Baden-Baden, Germany
   July 29 - August 3, 2002
   http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frame_text/text_news_intersymp.html
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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:

* SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and
   Simulation, International.  This new monthly 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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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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