in collaboration with
ACM/SIGSIM
April 14 - 17, 2008
Crowne Plaza Ottawa
Hotel
Ottawa,
Canada
General Chair
Dr. Hassan Rajaei
Bowling Green State University, USA
Vice General Chair
Gabriel A. Wainer
Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Program Chair
Michael J. Chinni
US ARMY -
RDECOM - ARDEC
Tutorials Chair
Prof. Axel Lehmann
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Poster Chair
Abdolreza Abhari
Ryerson University, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Awards Chair
Dr.
Maurice J. Ades
Westinghouse Savannah River Company, USA
Exhibits &
Publicity Chair
David Long
SAGETEA Group
Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, CA 92177-7900
Tel: 858-277-3888
Fax: 858-277-3930
E-mail: scs@scs.org
Spring Simulation Multiconference 2008 (SpringSim'08)
Conference Wrap-up
This year's Spring Simulation Multiconference was a
GREAT success!
To show off our success...
We thought we'd provide everyone a brief summary of the event.
This is what you missed if you couldn't join us...
The festivities kicked-off Monday morning with a fantastic keynote address by Dr. Chris M. Herdman, a professor with the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Cognitive Science. His talk was entitled Simulation and Cognitive Engineering: The Use of Synthetic Environments to Design and Evaluate Human-in-the-Loop Systems. In his talk, he outlined a Cognitive Systems framework that is used to guide his research in the Advanced Cognitive Engineering (ACE) Lab and used specific examples from his research to illustrate how simulation plays a critical role in human-in-the-loop systems. It was a great way to start the conference.
The rest of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday consisted of sessions with many detailed presentations on various topics ranging from agent-based simulation to large-scale modeling of the brain to support health sciences.
We hosted ten different symposia:
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Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS) |
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41st Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS) |
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Business and Industry Symposium (BIS) |
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11th Communications & Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS) |
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DoD Architecture Framework Modeling (DODAF) |
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High Performance Computing & Simulation Symposium (including DEVS) (HPCS) |
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17th Annual International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation (ICHSS) |
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Military Modeling & Simulation Symposium (MMS) |
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Modeling & Simulation in Education (MSE) |
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Symposium on simulation of Systems Security (SSSS) |
The Military Modeling and Simulation Symposium, chaired by Paul Roman, surprised us all by being the best attended symposium of the conference!
This year's conference also included the first-ever Poster Track at one of our Spring conferences. The Poster session was extremely well received with 24 Posters presented on-site. We are now formalizing the way we handle Poster Tracks in order to make them a permanent fixture in our Spring Simulation Multiconferences.
This conference also offered a number of exceptional tutorials:
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The Network Simulator NS3 - By: George Riley, Georgia Tech |
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An Introduction to DEVS and Distributed DEVS - By: Ming Zhang, University of Ottawa |
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Debugging Parallel Applications with the TotalView Debugger - By: Chris Gottbrath, TotalView Technologies |
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Modeling and Simulation with the BRAHMS Agent Environment - By: Dr. Maarten Sierhuis, NASA Ames Research Center |
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The Deterministic Global Optimization Algorithm DIRECT - By: Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic and State University |
There was also a special Workshop on Conceptual Modeling chaired by Louis Birta, School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, that was open to all attendees. This particular workshop had a number of different presenters and presentations on various aspects of conceptual modeling.
