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CALL FOR PAPERS</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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2nd International Workshop on</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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Model-driven Approaches
for Simulation Engineering</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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(SCS SpringSim 2012)
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March 26-29, 2012, Orlando, FL (USA)</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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# Papers Due: *** November 15, 2011 ***</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and archived</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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# in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplorer and IEEE CS Digital Library.
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# The Symposium is co-sponsored by IEEE.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-driven
and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and simulation
practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven
simulation engineering.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> <br>
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Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to
software systems engineering activities through the provision of consistent
and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As these models are
in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering approaches can also
support the exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse, programming
code generation, and model checking, for example.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and its
execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering.</font><font size="3">
</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">As simulation systems are mainly
based on software, these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven
approaches to support automatic software generation, enhance software quality,
and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering can
exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing the abstraction
level in simulation model specifications and by automating the derivation
of simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using modeling languages,
such as UML and SysML – but not exclusively those. For example, modeling
languages can be used for descriptive modeling (to describe the system
to be simulated), for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the
simulation of the same system), and for implementation modeling (to define
the respective simulator).</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">A partial list of topics of interest
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* model-driven simulation engineering processes</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* requirements modeling for simulation</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">* domain specific languages for modeling
and simulation</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* model transformations for simulation model building</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model transformations for simulation model implementation</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and distributed
simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS)</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms (discrete
event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based * simulation, etc.)</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of simulation
systems</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven technologies for simulation verification and validation</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* model-driven technologies for simulation visualization</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Executable UML</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* Executable Architectures</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* SysML / Modelica integration</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* Simulation Model Portability and reuse <br>
* model-based systems verification and validation</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* simulation for model-based systems engineering</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope
and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on model-driven
engineering of simulation systems.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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On-Line Submissions and Publication</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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We invite paper submissions in three forms:</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results. These
papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited for an
extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION journal.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research ideas
and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on experience
on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space, etc.).</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management
systems (</font><a href="http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS12/" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS12/</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">),
selecting the Mod4Sim track in the "Submission Categories" section.
All the submitted papers must be in PDF format and must conform to the
SCS conference template (Word template is available at </font><a href="http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTemplate.doc" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTemplate.doc</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">
, guidelines are available at </font><a href="http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">).
All the submitted papers must be original and not submitted else where.
Submitted papers will be peer reviewed with respect to their quality, originality
and relevance. The authors of the accepted papers must register in advance
for inclusion of their paper in the conference proceedings. Authors of
accepted papers will be invited to update their papers basing on the reviews,
before providing the camera ready.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
archived in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplorer and IEEE CS Digital Library.
However, **only** accepted **full papers** will be printed in hard copy.</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and content
appropriateness at any time. </font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"><br>
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* Submission deadline: November 15, 2011</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Acceptance notification: January 1, 2012</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Camera ready due: January 15, 2012</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Conference dates: March 26 - 29, 2012</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Nicolas Rouquette - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* David Chen - Univeristy of Bordeaux I, France</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Juan De Lara - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Hans-Peter De Koning - European Space Agency, The Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Christopher Delp - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Dov Dori - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* Howard Eisen - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Huascar Espinoza - European Software Institute and Tecnalia, Spain</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Joachim Fuchs - European Space Agency, The Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Cristiano Leorato - Rhea, The Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Steve McKeever - University of Oxford, UK</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Halit Oğuztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Chris Paredis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Hans Vangheluwe - University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill University,
Canada</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>
* Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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* Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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*** Contact Information ***</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica"> <br>
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Daniele Gianni and Nicolas Rouquette (workshop co-chairs)</font><font size="3" face="Helvetica">
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Emails: <a href="mailto:daniele.gianni@esa.int" target="_blank">daniele.gianni@esa.int</a> and <a href="mailto:nicolas.f.rouquette@jpl.nasa.gov" target="_blank">nicolas.f.rouquette@jpl.nasa.gov</a></font>
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