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1st International Workshop on</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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# Papers Due: *** March 2, 2010 ***</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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investigated systems increases and the types of investigations</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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widens, the cost of M&S activities increases because of the more</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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complex models and of the communications among a wider number and</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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technologies must be introduced to support these activities by</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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integrating processes, tools and platforms.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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M&S activities, the workshop seeks innovative contributions that</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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collaborative environments. These environments are continuously</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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becoming more complex and therefore their design requires</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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systematic approaches to meet the required quality of</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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improve the quality of collaborative environments.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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A non-exhaustive list of hi-level topics includes:</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* collaborative environments for M&S</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* agent-based M&S</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
* collaborative distributed simulation</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* net-centric M&S</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
* web-based M&S</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
* model sharing and reuse</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
* model building and evaluation</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* modeling and simulation of business processes</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* modeling for collaboration</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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networks</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
* model-driven simulation engineering</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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CoMetS'10 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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applications and trends in the workshop research area.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Papers should contain original contributions not published or</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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approval pending). Note that at least one author from each</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2010 to get the</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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paper published in the proceedings.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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in PDF format at the submission site</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Submission Deadline: March 2, 2010</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Decision to paper authors: April 2, 2010</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 14, 2010</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Conference dates: June 28 - June 30, 2010</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Michele Angelaccio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA,
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* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Alessandra Pieroni, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Andrew Rice, University of Cambridge, UK</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Helena Szczerbicka, University of Hannover, Germany</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Canada</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* J.Chris White, ViaSim Solutions, USA</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, Netherlands</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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*** Contact Information ***</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Andrea D'Ambrogio (workshop co-chair)</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Email: </font><a href="mailto:dambro@info.uniroma2.it" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>dambro@info.uniroma2.it</u></font></a>
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