SCS Simulation News - January, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 1

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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SCS Simulation News
January, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 1
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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

* Happy New Year to all in the modeling and simulation communities.
   We are always seeking news to publish in this electronic newsletter.
   If you have items or information that you would like to appear here,
   please send them by electronic mail to
   mailto:Newsletter.Editor@scs.org
   Include a web address if possible; I'll include a link to your page.
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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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