[Om-announce] [simu-conf] SIMULATION Journal Special Issues

Wed Apr 13 21:20:38 CEST 2011

Dear Colleague:

As a member of the Modeling and Simulation Community, you might be
interested in the following upcoming call-for-papers for Special Issues to
be published in "Simulation, Transactions of the Society of Modeling and
Simulation International <http://sim.sagepub.com/> ".

M&S Optimization Applications in Industry and Engineering

http://www.scs.org/simulation/specialissues?q=node/245

o   Submission of papers due by: April 15, 2011

o   Publication expected: Summer 2012

This Special Issue of the SIMULATION Journal aims to highlight academic
foundations as well as real-world industrial applications focusing on
lessons learned, experienced constraints, and proof of concepts and
generalizability of implemented solutions. Authors of high quality,
unpublished contributions to this field of Modeling and Simulation are
invited to submit papers to this Special Issue.

This special issue is aimed to solicit papers on the following topics of
interest, but not limited to:

*	Facility Layout Optimization
*	Transportation Optimization
*	Support of Environmental Science
*	Optimization in Business Applications
*	Optimization support in Engineering Domains (such as Biomedical,
Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, and Mechanical)

Activity Driven Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Applications 

http://www.scs.org/simulation/specialissues?q=node/133

o   Submission of papers due by: April 30, 2011

o   Publication expected: Spring 2012 

This special issue will highlight new research that uncovers and examines
aspects of activity driven modeling and simulation that cut across domains
of application. Submissions for the special issue should therefore focus on
theory, methods, tools, and applications that have cross-disciplinary
appeal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Numerical issues and algorithms 
*	Modeling methods and tools 
*	Parallel simulation 
*	Algorithms for and uses of novel computer architectures 
*	Fundamental theory 
*	Inter-disciplinary applications and case studies 
*	Design and refactoring of simulators to support activity based M&S

Modeling and Simulation of Aeronautical Systems 

http://www.scs.org/simulation/specialissues?q=node/255

o   Submission of papers due by: May 30, 2011

o   Publication expected: Fall 2012

As a showcase for multidisciplinary research, this special issue shall bring
innovative approaches in composite material behaviors, diagnostic
approaches, instrumentation and sensing, implementation of flight and
systems models on computers. Authors of high quality, unpublished
contributions are invited to submit papers to this Special Issue for a
variety of topics including, but not limited to:

*	Simulation of Complex Aeronautical Systems
*	Aeronautical Systems of Systems Engineering
*	Materials for Aeronautical and Aerospace vehicles
*	Flight control and navigation systems
*	CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) prediction and analysis
*	Structural Analysis of air lifting bodies
*	Aircraft material fatigue phenomenon
*	Flight training simulators
*	Flight safety analysis and design

Modeling Sustainability for Third Millennium 

http://www.scs.org/simulation/specialissues?q=node/202

o   Submission of papers due by: August 1, 2011

o   Publication expected: Fall 2012

This special issue aims at providing the opportunity for authors to submit
original and unpublished articles on innovative ways to use Modeling and
Simulation as Enabling Technology for investigating Technical, Economic,
Social and Environmental sustainability of Human Enterprises. Simulation
represents probably the only methodology to provide to the human race a tool
for enabling control of mankind evolution; in fact historical data for
understanding the situation evolution in this context could be collected
just when it is too late to react. Validated, verified and accredited models
represent the cornerstone for anticipating future critical situations.
Multidisciplinary approaches are encouraged to properly address the
framework of complex system sustainability. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:

*	Coupling economic, social, business and environmental models for
studying sustainability
*	Interoperable simulation for combining different models addressing
sustainability issues
*	Modeling and simulation as support risks and opportunities analysis
within the new reference scenario characterized by the global financial
crisis
*	Modeling social and human factors and their influence in human
enterprises and activities
*	Modeling drivers and guidelines definition for human enterprise
sustainability
*	Modeling global or local sustainability 
*	Models for estimating medium and long term sustainability 

Advancing Simulation Theory and Practice with Distributed Computing

http://www.scs.org/simulation/specialissues?q=node/274

o   Submission of papers due by: November 30, 2011

o   Publication expected: Spring 2013

The pursuit of high quality simulation experimentation and optimization can
require non-trivial amounts of computing power. Having access to an
increased number of computers usually enables "further and faster
experimentation" of the models. Distributed computing concepts such as High
Performance Computing (HPC), High Throughput Computing (HTC), grid and cloud
computing can provide the required computing capacity for the execution of
large and complex models. Further there has been a long tradition of
adopting advances in distributed computing in simulation as evidenced by
contributions from the parallel and distributed simulation community. There
has arguably been a recent acceleration of innovation in distributed
computing tools and techniques. This special issue presents the opportunity
to showcase recent research that is assimilating these new advances in
simulation. This special issue therefore solicits high quality papers on
both computational and theoretical studies that further the extant
literature on the application of distributed computing to simulation. Topics
of interest include but are not limited to:

*	Methodologies for creation of scalable simulation models.
*	Methodologies and algorithms associated with distributed execution
of models (e.g. algorithms for task-farming and load-balancing)
*	Theoretical issues, methodology and software architectures for large
scale distributed simulations (e.g. parallel and distributed simulation,
multi-agent based distributed simulation, IEEE 1516 HLA architecture,
Distributed Interactive Simulation).
*	Algorithms for parallel and distributed simulation, including time
synchronization, optimistic and conservative protocols. 
*	Ubiquitous computing architectures for development and
experimentation of simulation models.
*	Collaborative model development (e.g., shared workspace, shared
manipulation of models) 

The above special issues are still open for submission of papers. Please see
the SCS web site at www.scs.org
<https://mail.cbeyond.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a3dd89d924ca49a883426f4ad46f519e&
URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scs.org>  for details. 

If you want to propose a special issue for SIMULATION, please see SPECIAL
ISSUES: Principles & Guidelines on the SCS website at:
http://www.scs.org/simulation?q=node/94
<https://mail.cbeyond.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a3dd89d924ca49a883426f4ad46f519e&
URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scs.org%2fsimulation%3fq%3dnode%2f94> .

If you want to obtain further details about SIMULATION and SCS publications,
find more information in the following Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.scs.org/upload/FAQPublications.pdf
<https://mail.cbeyond.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a3dd89d924ca49a883426f4ad46f519e&
URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scs.org%2fupload%2fFAQPublications.pdf> 

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