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SCS_Simulation_News] SCS Simulation News - August, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 8



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SCS Simulation News
August, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 8
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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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1952-2002
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SIMULATION - THE SOCIETY'S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
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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

* Carl Malstrom has compiled an electronic archive of early Simulation
   Council Newsletters.  It is available at
   http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cwm/sc-newsletters/ .  These
   newsletters span a time frame from November 1952 to December 1963,
   at which time the McLeods and the Society made the transition
   to a full-fledged monthly technical journal called "Simulation."

* The HSC preliminary program can be found at http://www.scs.org/hsc
   Conference registrations are now being accepted.

* Latest additon to the SCS online archive:  The papers from the 2002
   Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation workshop have been
   uploaded to the SCS Publication archive at
   http://scs.affinitycity.com <http://scs.affinitycity.com/>

* Has your SCS Membership expired?  The new SCS membership application
   is available online now at http://www.modelingandsimulation.org
<http://www.modelingandsimulation.org/>

* Is Simulation a Science? Guest author Scott Harmon discusses the
   issues surrounding this debate in the latest issue of Modeling and
   Simulation Magazine online at http://www.modelingandsimulation.org
<http://www.modelingandsimulation.org/>

* At the recent simSummit, held in San Diego in July 2002, representatives
   of major M&S institutions decided that a Code of Professional Ethics
   for M&S would be one of the four pillars (along with Science, Technology
   and Applications) for M&S to be considered as a profession.  For more
   information see these papers from SCSC 2002 Proceedings:

   Ören, T.I., Elzas, M.S., Smit, I., and L.G. Birta, "Code of
   Professional Ethics for Simulationists," at
   http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~oren/pubs/D81_Code.pdf

   and Ören, T., "Rationale for A Code of Professional Ethics for
   Simulationists," at
   http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~oren/pubs/D84_Rationale.pdf
   Contact: Dr. Tuncer Ören at mailto:oren@site.uottawa.ca

* The Department of Defense-sponsored and -developed Runtime
   Infrastructure (RTI), the software implementation of the DoD's
   High Level Architecture (HLA), has begun its transition to a
   solely commercially developed and sustained product.
   https://www.dmso.mil/public/pao/stories/y_2002/m_09/02-8-2-1

* Two special issues on health sciences simulation, edited by Dr.
   James G. Anderson, are being published this year.  They are the
   Special issue on Simulation, Health Care Management Science,
   Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2002; and the Special issue on Simulation
   in Medical Informatics, Journal of the American Medical
   Informatics Association, Vol. 9, No. 5, September/October 2002.
   Jim can be contacted at mailto:Andersonj@sri.soc.purdue.edu

* 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

* Huntsville Simulation Conference 2002
   Huntsville, Alabama
   October 9 - 10, 2002
   http://www.scs.org/hsc

* ESS2002 - 14th European Simulation Symposium
   Focused on Simulation in Industry
   Dresden, Germany
   October 23 - 26, 2002
   http://biomath.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ess2002

* Fifth International Conference on System Simulation and Scientific
   Computing (ICSC 2002)
   Shanghai, China
   November 3 - 6, 2002
   mailto:icsc2002@mail.shu.edu.cn

* 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
   San Diego, CA
   December 8 - 11, 2002
   http://www.wintersim.org <http://www.wintersim.org/>

* The 2003 Western MultiConference on Computer Simulation
   Orlando, Florida
   January 19 - 23, 2003
   http://www.scs.org/confernc/wmc/wmc03/cfp/wmc03.htm

* 22nd IASTED International Conference
   MODELLING, IDENTIFICATION, AND CONTROL (MIC 2003)
   Innsbruck, Austria
   February 10 - 13, 2003
   http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/austria/mic.htm

* VIth Conference on Computer Simulation and Industry Applications
   Tijuana,B.C., México
   February 19 - 21, 2003
   mailto:carlosriosj@hotmail.com or mailto:stanracz@netservice.com.mx
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3.  Publications

* Check out the new look of Modeling and Simulation Magazine Online
   at http://www.modelingandsimulation.org
<http://www.modelingandsimulation.org/>  You can find news of the
   profession, short technical articles, and interesting columns there.

* The two former SCS journals, SIMULATION and TRANSACTIONS have been
   combined to form our new journal, SIMULATION: Transactions of The
   Society for Modeling and Simulation International.  This new journal
   contains both methodological and applications papers.
   http://www.scs.org/pubs/simulation.html

* Our web vault is at http://scs.affinitycity.com
<http://scs.affinitycity.com/>  Check it out.
   It stores our growing collection of journal and proceedings
   articles.  New articles have just been added!
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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/orginfo.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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	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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