Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this CFP.

********** CALL FOR PAPER **********

DS-RT 2013, the seventeenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed
Simulations and Real Time Applications, is running three special sessions
this year:
     - Simulation and Real Time Applications for Road Traffic Management
     - Recent Advances in WSN's design and Deployment for Real-Time
Applications
     - Agent-based Modelling and Simulation

Those special sessions cover three important areas of the field of
distributed simulations and real time applications, and many papers were
accepted in previous editions of DS-RT on the same topics. See below for
more detailed descriptions of those special sessions.

***** PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW *****

Submitted manuscripts must be in standard IEEE two-column format that is
used for IEEE conference proceedings and must not exceed "8 pages" (2-page
extension allowed), including figures, tables and references. Standard IEEE
templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at:
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http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

A submission may present preliminary results, propose new research
direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative
viewpoint on important wireless and mobile networks topic. Papers will be
selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical
discussions at the special session and influencing future research.
Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and
technical relevance. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through EDAS (
https://edas.info/N14613 - ("DS-RT 2013")). All papers will be peer
reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. Consistent with
standard scholarly practice, the authors should not have substantially
similar work in review anywhere else. The accepted papers are to be
included into IEEE Xplore.

***** IMPORTANT DATES *****

Full paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2013 (23:59 EDT)
Paper acceptance notification: July 20th, 2013

***** FOR MORE INFORMATION *****

For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact
the session organisers - find all relevant information on the corresponding
web pages below.

***** DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS *****

* Special Session on Simulation and Real Time Applications for Road Traffic
Management

This special session focuses on simulation tools and real time applications
in relation to road traffic management and prediction for smart cities,
from both the decision maker perspective as well as the end user point of
view. Loads of data (e.g. real-time traffic information) and new facilities
(e.g. communication devices) are available out there and force engineering
companies, road authorities, and communications experts to redesign their
solutions. We aim at bringing together industrial experts and researchers
from academia to present their results and discuss the challenges related
to real time traffic management and simulation for Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS).

DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/srtartm_2013.htm

* Special Session on Recent Advances in WSN's design and Deployment for
Real-Time Applications

Over the last decade,researchers and engineersfrom industry and academia
were focusing their efforts mainly on energy saving strategies to maximize
the Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) lifetime. However, new emerging
applications, which consider critical and multimedia flows, are gaining
more and more popularity in various activity domains. Those WSN-based
applications have strict requirementsin terms of security, fault tolerance,
and Quality of Service (QoS). The various types of constraints to consider
make the design, implementation, and validation of such applications very
challenging.
QoS and real-time support in WSNs face severe challenges due to the
wireless nature of the channel, limited resources, low node reliability,
distributed architecture and dynamic network topology in some applications.
This special session seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and
engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners who
face the challenges of QoS and Real-time support in WSNs applications. They
are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas,
simulation tools and applications, and discussthe key unresolved
challengesin the topics of this special session.

DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/rawd_2013.htm

* Special Session on Agent-based ModelLing and Simulation

This special session focuses on general aspects and special properties for
agent-based modeLling and simulations that allows them to be applied on
several scientific domains, such as sociology, physics, chemistry, biology,
ecology, and economy. The session is intended to bring together researchers
and practitioners, so they can present the current status of their work and
discuss the challenges they face in developing solutions and applications
for agent-based simulations. Consequently, the design of these simulations
aims not only to social contexts but also to more technical domains, which
involves highly complex interactive systems.

DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/abms_2013.htm

Best Regards,
DS-RT 2013 Special Session Chairs
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