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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your latest research results to the </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications</span><span lang=EN-GB> (SIMULTECH 2021), that will be held Online from July 07 to July 09, 2021, until the 29<sup>th</sup> of April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Please notice this is a hard deadline and will not be extended. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>SIMULTECH 2021 is an annual conference whose goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various fields interested in the technological advances and application challenges in all fields of modeling and simulation. The specific topics listed under each of these tracks highlight the interest of this conference in aspects related to computing, including Conceptual Modeling, Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Interoperability, Ontologies, Knowledge Based Decision Support, Petri Nets, Business Process Modeling and Simulation, amongst others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference will be held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on SImulation and Modeling, the Institute of Engineering and Management, the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, the European Council for Modeling and Simulation, the European Training and Simulation Association and the Bulgarian Modeling and Simulation Association and will include in its technical program remarkable distinguished speakers, such as: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Gregory Monakhov, AnyLogic, United States <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index and a short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer <span style='color:black'>in a Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Also, a short list of papers presented at the conference venue will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of Journal of Simulation Engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Mónica Saramago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>On behalf of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Frank Werner, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Tuncer Ören (honorary), University of Ottawa, Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Web: <span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.simultech.org">http://www.simultech.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>e-mail: <span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:simultech.secretariat@insticc.org">simultech.secretariat@insticc.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>