VPH Events

3rd IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2012) in cooperation with AFIS (INCOSE France Chapter) MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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June 25-27, 2012, Toulouse (France)

http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12

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# Papers Due: March 16, 2012

# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings

# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.

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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central

activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of

existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to

investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For

this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and

research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,

manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and

sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the

investigated systems increases and the types of investigations

widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more

complex models and for the communications among a wider number and

variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator

users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address

the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative

technologies must be introduced to support these activities by

fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the

communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by

integrating processes, tools and platforms.

 

Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to

M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that

deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of

collaborative environments. These environments are continuously

becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires

systematic approaches to meet the required quality of

collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce

rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to

maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the

collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies

and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to

improve the quality of collaborative environments.

 

A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

 

* collaborative environments for M&S

* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S

* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes

* agent-based M&S

* collaborative distributed simulation

* collaborative component-based M&S

* net-centric M&S

* web-based M&S

* model sharing and reuse

* model building and evaluation

* modeling and simulation of business processes

* modeling for collaboration

* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks

* model-driven simulation engineering

* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments

* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S

* databases and repositories for M&S

* distributed virtual environments

* virtual research environment for M&S

* collaborative DEVS M&S

 

To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider

scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions

that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.

 

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On-Line Submissions and Publication

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CoMetS'12 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners

to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative

applications and trends in the track research area.

 

This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:

 

(1) papers

(2) poster and industrial presentations

 

(1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or

submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,

tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the

IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt

Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)

and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee

members.

 

Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and

published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending).

Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should

register to attend WETICE 2012 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the

paper published in the proceedings.

 

(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in

any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission

requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the

organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of

a poster which will be displayed at conference time.

With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be

allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.

The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not

include commercial details.

 

Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for

expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.

 

Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the submission

site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2012),

which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system.

Please feel free to contact the track chairs ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.

 

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Important Dates

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* Submission Deadline: March 16, 2012

* Decision to paper authors: April 16, 2012

* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 30, 2012

* Conference dates: June 25 - June 27, 2012

 

 

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Organizing Committee

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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

 

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Program Committee

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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

* Massimo Bandecchi, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

* Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France

* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany

* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands

* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK

* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ

* Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany

* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

* Jean-Francois Santucci, University of Corsica, France

* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada

* Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

 

*** Contact Information ***

Daniele Gianni (track co-chair)

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