<div dir="ltr"><div>(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this<br></div><div>message)</div><div><br></div><div>#################################################################</div><div> IEEE WETICE 2014</div>
<div> 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation</div><div> (Comets 2014)</div><div><br></div><div> in cooperation with</div><div> INCOSE Italia (to be confirmed)</div>
<div> MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S)</div><div><br></div><div> CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>#################################################################</div><div>
<br></div><div>June 23-25, 2014, Parma (Italy)</div><div><a href="http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets14">http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets14</a></div><div><br></div><div>#################################################################</div>
<div># Papers Due: March 7, 2014 </div><div># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings</div><div># by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI.</div><div>#################################################################</div>
<div><br></div><div>Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central</div><div>activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of</div><div>existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to</div>
<div>investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For</div><div>this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and</div><div>research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures,</div>
<div>manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and</div><div>sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the</div><div>investigated systems increases and the types of investigations</div><div>widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more</div>
<div>complex models and for the communications among a wider number and</div><div>variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator</div><div>users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address</div>
<div>the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative</div><div>technologies must be introduced to support these activities by</div><div>fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the</div><div>communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by</div>
<div>integrating processes, tools and platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to</div><div>M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that</div><div>
deal with the application of M&S practices in the field of</div><div>collaborative engineering platforms. These platforms are continuously </div><div>becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires</div><div>
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of</div><div>collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce</div><div>rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to</div><div>maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the</div>
<div>collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies</div><div>and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to</div><div>improve the quality of collaborative environments.</div><div>
<br></div><div>A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:</div><div><br></div><div>* collaborative requirements modeling</div><div>* collaborative environments for M&S</div><div>* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S</div>
<div>* business proces modeling for collaborative environments</div><div>* agent-based M&S</div><div>* collaborative distributed simulation</div><div>* collaborative component-based M&S</div><div>* net-centric M&S</div>
<div>* web-based M&S</div><div>* model sharing and reuse</div><div>* model building and evaluation</div><div>* modeling and simulation of business processes</div><div>* modeling for collaboration</div><div>* simulation-based performance analysis of collaborative engineering platforms</div>
<div>* model-driven approaches for collaborative engineering</div><div>* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S</div><div>* databases and repositories for M&S</div><div>* distributed virtual environments</div>
<div>* virtual research environment for M&S</div><div>* collaborative DEVS M&S</div><div>* multi-method M&S</div><div><br></div><div>To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider</div><div>scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions</div>
<div>that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S.</div><div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div>On-Line Submissions and Publication</div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div>
<div><br></div><div>CoMetS'14 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners</div><div>to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative</div><div>applications and trends in the track research area.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This year, we will accept submissions in two forms:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) papers</div><div>(2) poster and industrial presentations</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or</div>
<div>submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures,</div><div>tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the</div><div>IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt</div><div>
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF)</div><div>and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee</div><div>members.</div><div><br></div><div>Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and</div>
<div>published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending).</div><div>Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should</div><div>register to attend WETICE 2014 (<a href="http://www.wetice.org">http://www.wetice.org</a>) to have the</div>
<div>paper published in the proceedings.</div><div><br></div><div>(2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in</div><div>any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission</div><div>
requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the</div><div>organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of</div><div>a poster which will be displayed at conference time.</div><div>With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be</div>
<div>allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case.</div><div>The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not</div><div>include commercial details.</div><div><br></div><div>Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the conference submission site (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014</a>), by selecting the CoMetS track.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please feel free to contact the track chairs (<a href="mailto:dambro@uniroma2.it">dambro@uniroma2.it</a>, <a href="mailto:danielegmail-comets@yahoo.it">danielegmail-comets@yahoo.it</a>)</div><div>if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.</div>
<div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++</div><div>Important Dates</div><div>+++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>* Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014</div><div>* Notification to authors: March 28, 2014</div><div>* Camera Ready to IEEE: April 11, 2014</div>
<div>* Conference date: June 23 - June 24, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++</div><div>Program co-chairs</div><div>+++++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</div>
<div>Daniele Gianni, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy</div><div>Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands</div><div>Giuseppe Iazeolla, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy</div><div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++</div>
<div>Program Committee</div><div>+++++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo Bocciarelli, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy</div><div>Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France</div><div>Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands</div>
<div>Steve McKeever, Uppsala University, Sweden</div><div>David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ</div><div>Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany</div><div>José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain</div>
<div>Volker Schaus, DLR, Germany</div><div>Sara Tucci, CEA/List, France</div><div>Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada</div><div>Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands</div><div>Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany</div>
<div>Gregory Zacharewicz, University of Bordeaux, France</div><div>Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China</div><div><br></div><div>*** Contact Information *** </div><div>Andrea D'Ambrogio (track co-chair) </div><div>
Email: <a href="mailto:dambro@uniroma2.it">dambro@uniroma2.it</a></div><div><br></div></div>