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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Summersim’15 final call for papers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb 20, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First, the Computer Graphics Paper track at Summersim’15 info <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The theme of the paper track is interoperability between Computer Graphics and Simulation. However, general graphics and simulation visualization are also primary themes. Topics include but are not restricted to;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- 3D visualization of simulations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Open Source in simulation visualizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Scenegraph's / X3D / WebGL / X3DOM / COLLADA / FBX / GML / OSG / OpenSG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- 3D modeling and animation tools for virtual environments [Blender, Maya,... GIS tools / Terrain,...]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Game engines and simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- DEVS and Computer Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- GPGPU's and simulations [CUDA, OpenCL,...]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- General Computer Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- General Simulation Methodology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Sensors, CG and simulations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Ocean modeling, atmospheric and weather modelling, visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Business Information Modelling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NEXT – The Summersim’15 info [THERE ARE REALLY GREAT TRACKS…<span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span>] AND DETAILS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>THE SOCIETY FOR MODELING & SIMULATION INTERNATIONAL (SCS)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Summer Simulation Multiconference 2015: <a href="http://scs.org/summersim">http://scs.org/summersim</a> July 26-29, 2015 Palmer House Hilton Hotel; Chicago, IL, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"Complexity and the Role of Modeling & Simulation"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*NEW SCSC TRACKS ADDED! SEE BELOW!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Special Sessions Proposals (workshops, tutorials, etc): January 10, 2015 (SPECTS - February 20, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Paper Submission: February 20, 2015 (SPECTS - February 20, 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2015 (SPECTS - March 31, 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Work in Progress: March 31, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Camera-ready Papers Due: April 12, 2015 (SPECTS - April 12, 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>=============================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Aims and Scope:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Summer Simulation Conference 2015 (SummerSim’15) is SCS’s premier international conference in cooperation with ACM SIGSIM. The conference focuses on modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications and provides a forum for the latest R&D results in academia and industry. This year’s focus is on hybrid, discrete and continuous systems, and the role of M&S in addressing complexity. We encourage you to take this opportunity to experience the tutorials, tracks, and workshops that will be available.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◦General Chair: Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, LLC, Colorado, USA (<a href="mailto:smittal@duniptech.com">smittal@duniptech.com</a>) ◦General Co-Chair: Floriano De Rango, University of Exeter, UK (<a href="mailto:derango@deis.unical.it">derango@deis.unical.it</a>) ◦Awards Chair: Andreas Tolk, SimIS Inc., Virginia, USA (<a href="mailto:andreas.tolk@simisinc.com">andreas.tolk@simisinc.com</a>) ◦Program Chair: José Luis Risco Martín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (<a href="mailto:jlrisco@ucm.es">jlrisco@ucm.es</a>) ◦Proceedings Chair: Deniz Cetinkaya, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Turkey (<a href="mailto:dcetinkaya@thk.edu.tr">dcetinkaya@thk.edu.tr</a>) ◦Publicity Chair: Justyna Zander, HumanoidWay, USA (<a href="mailto:justyna.zander@gmail.com">justyna.zander@gmail.com</a>) ◦Sponsorship Chair: Umut Durak, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany (<a href="mailto:umut.durak@dlr.de">umut.durak@dlr.de</a>) ◦Tutorial Chair: Pending confirmation ◦PhD Colloquium Chair: Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA (<a href="mailto:mvelev@gmail.com">mvelev@gmail.com</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◦Abdolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada (<a href="mailto:aabhari@scs.ryerson.ca">aabhari@scs.ryerson.ca</a>) ◦Francesco Longo, University of Calabria, Italy (<a href="mailto:f.longo@unical.it">f.longo@unical.it</a>) ◦Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain (<a href="mailto:pere.vila@udg.edu">pere.vila@udg.edu</a>) ◦Pieter J. Mosterman, MathWorks, Inc., USA (<a href="mailto:Pieter.Mosterman@mathworks.com">Pieter.Mosterman@mathworks.com</a>) ◦Justyna Zander, HumanoidWay, USA (<a href="mailto:justyna.zander@gmail.com">justyna.zander@gmail.com</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Advisory Committee:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◦Tuncer Ören, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada (<a href="mailto:Oren.Tuncer@sympatico.ca">Oren.Tuncer@sympatico.ca</a>) ◦Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA (<a href="mailto:obaidat@monmouth.edu">obaidat@monmouth.edu</a>) ◦Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy (<a href="mailto:agostino@itim.unige.it">agostino@itim.unige.it</a>) ◦François Cellier, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (<a href="mailto:FCellier@Inf.ETHZ.CH">FCellier@Inf.ETHZ.CH</a>) ◦Bernard P. Zeigler, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (<a href="mailto:zeigler@ece.arizona.edu">zeigler@ece.arizona.edu</a>) ◦Jerzy Rozenblit, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (<a href="mailto:jr@ece.arizona.edu">jr@ece.arizona.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A selected group of the best papers of SummerSim 2015 will be invited to be published in a Special Issue devoted to SummerSim 2015. At the moment, the committee is looking for appropriate venues of journal publications. All authors are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers to the Special Issue according to the guidelines found on the webpage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference, present their work to their peers, transfer copyright, and pay a conference registration fee at the time their camera-ready paper is submitted. All papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in both the SCS digital library and the ACM Digital Library, and will be indexed in DBLP and SCOPUS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SummerSim'15 Includes the Following Events (please see individual Call for Papers to see specific track information):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>•International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chairs: Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy, and Jose Marzo, Univ. of Girona, Spain SPECTS Call for Papers: Visit <a href="http://scs.org/summersim">http://scs.org/summersim</a> SPECTS Submit Paper: <a href="http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS15/">http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS15/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>•47th Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2015 (SCSC 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Dr. Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, LLC, USA Co Chair: Il-Chul Moon, KAIST, Korea<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SCSC Tracks (Please also see individual track Call for Papers at <a href="http://scs.org/summersim">http://scs.org/summersim</a>):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾M&S for Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS’15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Dr. Saurabh Mittal and Marco Lutzenberger ◾M&S for Sustainability (MSS’15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Dr. Bjorn Johansson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS’15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chairs: Dr. Tuncer Ören, Dr. Levent Yilmaz ◾Emergency Management Simulation (EMS ’15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Prof. Dr. Francesco Longo<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Computer Graphics for Simulation (CGS'15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: John F. Richardson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Modeling & Simulation for Environmental Systems (MSES'15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Ali Elkamel, Suad Al-Adwani<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Grand Challenges for Modeling & Simulation (GCMS'15)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Ali Elkamel, Chandramouli R. Madhuranthakam, Hedia Fgaier ◾Modeling and Simulation for Energy Systems Integration and Smart Grid (MSEnSySG'15) *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Vladimir Koritarov, Saurabh Mittal, Prakash R. Thimmapuram ◾Simulation for Design Automation Flow (SDAF'15) *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Alberto A. Del Barrio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Modeling, Simulation and Test for Cyber-Physical Systems (MSTCPS'15) *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Miroslav Velev<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Modeling & Simulation in Medicine (MSM'15) *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Jacob Barhak<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Modeling & Simulation for Cyber-Security Assessment (MSCSA'15) *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Adam Bryant<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>◾Poster Session & Student Colloquium *JUST ADDED!*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chair: Miroslav Velev<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Further, topics relevant to the scope of the conference also include (but are not restricted to) the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>•Modeling and Simulation for Defense and Security •Modeling and Simulation of Inventory and Materials Management •Modeling and Simulation for Transportation •Modeling and Simulation of Complex Social Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SCSC Call for Papers: Visit <a href="http://scs.org/summersim">http://scs.org/summersim</a> SCSC Submit Paper: <a href="http://www.softconf.com/scs/SCSC15/">http://www.softconf.com/scs/SCSC15/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you have any questions about SummerSim'15, please contact SCS (<a href="mailto:scs@scs.org">scs@scs.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SCS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>