COMETS 2011 - 2nd International Track on Collaborative Modeling andSimul

[Daniele Gianni <daniele.gianni@gmail.com>]

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                 IEEE WETICE 2011 

            2nd International Track on 

       Collaborative Modeling and Simulation 

                 CALL FOR PAPERS 

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June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)

http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11 

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# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 *** 

# 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

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'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners 

to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative 

applications and trends in the track research area. 

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 2011 to have the 

paper published in the proceedings. 

Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests 

and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted 

in PDF format at the submission site 

(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is 

supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please 

contact the track chairs (comets2011@easychair.org) if you 

experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. 

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Important Dates 

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* Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011 

* Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011 

* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011 

* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011 

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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

* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France

* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China 

and California State University, USA

* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany

* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands

* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA

* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK

* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ

* Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany

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

* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA

* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University, Canada

* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada

* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

*** Contact Information *** 

Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) 

Email: daniele.gianni@esa.int