General Chairs

Simone Youngblood
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO)

Bernard Zeigler
Arizona Center for Integrative
Modeling & Simulation (ACIMS)

Program Chairs

D. E. (Steve) Stevenson
Clemson University

David Gross
Boeing

Sponsored by

The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P. O. Box 17900
San Diego, California 92177
Phone: (858) 277-3888
Fax: (858) 277-3930


Primary Initiating Sponsors:

Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling& Simulation (ACIMS)

Defense Modeling and Simulation Office

Foundations ‘04 seeks the broadest possible base of ideas. Sponsorship is a way of participating in the planning process. Sponsorship is not a monetary commitment but rather a commitment to put forth ideas on the workshop organization and topics.

Click here for the Sponsorship Form as a Word Document
(Fill out and email)

Click here for the Sponsorship Form as a PDF Document
(Fill out and snail mail)

Foundations ’04:
Final Program Oct. 13-15, 2004

*Updated Maps & Directions to the conference:

Driving Directions to ASU
http://www.asu.edu/map/directions.html
 

ASU Campus Map
http://www.asu.edu/map/online_map.html
You can select a magnified section of the campus by scrolling with mouse. The Tempe Palms Hotel is located directly across the street from Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, the site of the Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate on Oct 13.

ASU Campus Map, Central Section
(showing Memorial Union venue for FOUNDATIONS'04 and the nearest Parking structure)
http://www.asu.edu/map/b2.html
 

Homepage for ASU Maps and Directions
http://www.asu.edu/map/index.html

Foundations ’04 is a follow-on workshop to the highly successful Foundations ’02 workshop held at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University on 22-24 October 2002. The Foundation ’02 proceedings is available from the Defense Modeling and Simulation Organization with a mirror site at Clemson University. Hardcopies of the proceedings are available from the Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, CA

The Foundations ’04 Workshop builds on Foundations ’02 covering the entire spectrum of M&S communities: users, managers, developers, and researchers. Our guidelines are

• First, there are many VV&A activities that we know how to do but that have not been consolidated into universally adopted best practices. In this case, Foundations ’04 will continue to formulate and document best practices.

• Second, there are many issues for which basic research is needed. For example, there was some consensus at Foundations ’02 that formal methods for VV&A should be developed and adaptive programming issues be explored.  Foundations ’04 will provide a forum for researchers to present the latest thinking on VV&A.

The Program Committee began work to develop a comprehensive program. It rapidly became apparent that one technical issue dominates VV&A: the issue of uncertainty. The Committee has an outstanding selection of eighteen papers on uncertainty and risk. In addition, the Committee has a lineup of sessions on formal methods, management, planning, and economics considerations.