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SCS Simulation News - November, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 11
- From: "K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Subject: SCS Simulation News - November, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 11
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:07:01 +1300
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SCS Simulation News
November, 2002 - Volume 3, Issue 11
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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,
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. Historical item of the month
2. News and developments in modeling and simulation
3. Upcoming conferences
4. Publications
5. About SCS
6. Membership in SCS
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1. Historical Item of the month (courtesy of Carl Malstrom)
The May 28, 1953 Simulation Council meeting held at the Pomona plant of
the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair) Corporation was much
anticipated, due to the nature of the showcase simulation facility that
Dov Abramis and Stan Rogers had developed there. The large computers
were internally assembled from components from several different vendors,
tied together with equipment of their own design, with many innovations
for interconnectivity, setup, checkout and documentation. The Pomona
plant was a new facility built by Convair exclusively for missile
development and the simulation setup they had developed was allowing them
to operate in two shifts, changing problems twice a day. Whereas in the
San Diego facility a problem board could not even be removed for checking,
in Pomona they changed them twice a day. (Note: this was an amazing
accomplishment for the state of the technology available at the time.)
The subject of the meeting was "Unusual Applications and Unusual Techniques
of Simulation," and was very well attended. Eighty-one people representing
28 organizations were there. As McLeod reported in the Newsletter,
"that is too many!" He further explains, "We are honored to have sponsored
a meeting attended by so many of the best brains in the simulation field.
But in spite of interesting talks by good speakers it was the poorest
meeting to date in light of Simulation Council objectives. The free
exchange of ideas, the discussion and the banter which are usually the
essence of our meetings were almost completely stifled by the sheer size
of the gathering. To be heard, a person had to step up to the front of
the auditorium, in which case he felt that he was making a speech. That
did it!"
True to the subject of the meeting, there were unusual and interesting
simulations discussed. Among them were: a study of river basins for the
Weather Bureau, a study of nuclear induction or nuclear magnetic resonance
as published by Nobel laureates Stanford and Purcell, a study of the
propagation of low-frequency radio waves in the ionosphere, and the use
of weighting functions to obtain statistics from problems involving noise
without making a large number of runs. It is evident the analog computer
was a significant tool for addressing some of the most challenging
scientific
and engineering problems of the time.
To read more from the meeting about these unusual simulations and the new
Convair Analog Computer Laboratory, go to the May 1953 Newsletter online at
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cwm/sc-newsletters/1953/SCN-May53.pdf
The entire Newsletter archive is also available at
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cwm/sc-newsletters/
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2. News and developments in modeling and simulation
* Four special issues are planned for the SCS journal "Simulation:
Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International."
These issues will focus upon these interest areas:
--Component-Based Modeling and Simulation
--Applications of the DEVS Formalism
--Grand Challenges for Modeling and Simulation
--Simulation of Air Traffic
For complete information, visit http://www.scs.org/pubs/specialIssues
* A call for papers has been issued for Agent-Based Simulation 4, to be
held April 28-30, 2003, inMontpellier, France. See the call at
http://abs2003.cirad.fr/index_an.html
* A special issue of the journal "International Journal of Information
Technology and Decision Making," entitled "Telecommunications Theories,
Management, Development, Practices, and Applications in Information
Technology: Issues and Analysis," is to be published. See the call
for papers at
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijitdm/mkt/callforpapers_telecom.shtml
* The 2003 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2003)
will feature the conference on Design, Analysis and Simulation of
Distributed Systems (DASD 2003). The conference is devoted to all
kinds of distributed and Internet-based systems.
http://www.scs.org/confernc/astc/astc03/cfp/dasd03.htm
* 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."
* Has your SCS Membership expired? Get your SCS membership status
up-to-date, or upgrade your membership to include subscription to
one of SCS's two periodicals. An electronic brochure detailing the
new service levels and related benefits of SCS membership is
available online at http://www.scs.org/SCSMembershipFlyer.pdf
* The nomination period for the 2002 Department of Defense (DoD)
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Awards will remain open until Dec. 13.
http://www.dmso.mil/public//community/awards
* 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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3. Upcoming conferences
* 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
San Diego, CA
December 8 - 11, 2002
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
* 2003 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2003)
Orlando, Florida
March 30 - April 3, 2003
http://www.scs.org/confernc/astc/astc03/cfp/astc03.htm
* Agent-Based Simulation 4
Montpellier, France
April 28 - 30, 2003
http://abs2003.cirad.fr/index_an.html
* 17th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2003)
San Diego, California
June 10 - 13, 2003
http://www.pads-workshop.org
* 2003 Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC '03)
Montreal, Canada
July 20 - 24, 2003
http://www.scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc03/cfp/scsc03.htm
* 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer
and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS '03)
Montreal, Canada
July 20 - 24, 2003
http://www.scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc03/cfp/spects03.htm
* 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics (SCI 2003)
Orlando, Florida
July 27 - 30, 2003
http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/
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4. Publications
Appropriate technical contributions are welcome for the following
two publications of SCS. For more information, visit
http://www.scs.org/pubs/pubsinfo.html
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SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation
International is the monthly refereed transactions of the leading
society devoted to advancing the discipline and profession of
modeling and simulation. An archival journal in both print and
electronic form, it consists of distinct sections--one devoted
to theory, the other to applications. Published articles must have
a clear relevance to general modeling and simulation issues. In
addition to its archival mission, the journal aims to help
professionals and researchers, particularly those involved in
multidisciplinary projects, apply advances in modeling and simulation
theory, methodology, and technology to their application areas.
The methods and applications of modeling and simulation in both well
established and emerging areas include the fields of, but are not
restricted to:
* Computer Science: Computer networking and communications, high
performance computers, real-time systems, mobile and intelligent
agents, simulation software, and language design.
* Engineering: System engineering and design, aerospace, traffic
systems, air and surface traffic systems, microelectronics,
mechatronics, manufacturing systems, robotics, and air traffic.
* Physical and Life Sciences: Chemistry, physics, biology, medicine,
biomedicine, sociology, and cognition.
Manuscript submission is online. To submit a manuscript, go to:
http://simulation.manuscriptcentral.com/
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MODELING & SIMULATION Magazine is the general interest publication
of SCS. Contributions from all members of the modeling and simulation
community are welcome. Examples of topics include the following:
* Hardware/software releases: What does your new or latest product do?
How is it better? What doesn?t it do?
* Major research efforts and breakthroughs, both academic and industrial.
* Researchers? reports on progress in layperson?s terms.
* New requests for proposals, new projects/contracts/funding announcements.
* Progress in education/training; infusion of modeling and simulation
into general curriculum.
The two main goals of this publication are to present papers that are
readable to the non-expert and to provide useful information related to
the field of modeling and simulation.
Press releases and news about modeling and simulation can be suggested
for publication by sending material to Steve Branch at
mailto:sbranch@scs.org
Technical articles can be submitted for consideration by writing to the
SCS Managing Editor at mailto:Editor@scs.org
To view an issue of this magazine, go to:
http://www.modelingandsimulation.org/
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5. 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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6. 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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