Call For Papers

Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology (JDMS)

Special Issue: Modeling and Simulation in Homeland Security

Introduction

Since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the need for research in homeland security becomes increasingly important and urgent. Current threats include not only the traditional spectrum of manmade and natural hazards (e.g., fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, pandemics, and disruptions to the nation's information network) but also the deadly and devastating terrorist arsenal of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive weapons. Efforts to protect people, safeguard the nation's critical infrastructures, and secure homeland from terrorism require a variety of difficult decisions and response strategies. To ensure that these decisions and response strategies are made in the most beneficial manner, effective decision analyses and modeling are necessary. Mathematical modeling and computer simulation are powerful tools that can be used to help decision making by highlighting the potential impacts of various preventional and protective actions, providing assessments of the operational feasibility of such actions, and suggesting effective strategies in preparing for and/or responding to potential homeland security threats

This special issue seeks original research work on modeling homeland security using visionary approaches, formal models, and innovative simulation techniques. Models and simulation that help understand how to enhance the national and social resilience or capability in the presence of a terrorist threat or natural disaster are particularly welcome. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

• Frameworks and formal models to assess a threat risk
• Modeling and simulation in protecting critical infrastructure
• Models and strategies for preventing terrorism
• Applications of real-time modeling in supporting rapid-responses
• Methods and simulation techniques to model social and psychological vulnerability to potential terrorist events
• Simulation technologies and algorithms to model behavioral responses to warnings and potential terrorist event
• Modeling and simulation in emergence response and management
• Models and algorithms in the effectiveness of new technologies in homeland security

Papers submitted should not be concurrently under review at another conference, journal or similar venue.

Instructions for Manuscript Preparation

For manuscript formatting and other guidelines, please visit the Author Guidelines for JDMS..

Note: Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submitted manuscript must include title, names, authors' affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses, and a list of keywords. For multiple author submission, please identify the corresponding author.

Due Dates

Submissions for full paper review

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system to the JDMS Manuscript Submission System. Manuscripts must be formatted in single-column pdf format, double-spaced, and use 12pt fonts. In the title page, author(s) must specifically mark that the paper is intended for this special issue as follows: "Submission for the Special Issue of JDMS: Modeling and Simulation in Homeland Security".

Final paper submissions

Each final submission must be prepared based on the Simulation journal requirements (see the Author Guidelines for JDMS page).

For questions contact the editor at:

• Dr. Amy W. Ding
  Dept. of Information and Decision Sciences (M/C 294)
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  Chicago, IL 60607

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