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SIMUTools 2010

Third International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques Sponsored by ICST and Create-Net In technical cooperation with ACM SIGSIM, ACM SIGMETRICS, SCS

March 15-19, 2010 - Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain http://www.simutools.org

SIMUTools 2010 (the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques) invites the submission of original, high-quality papers on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices. This new edition of the conference builds upon the great success of our two previous meetings. While SIMUTools' main focus is on advances in simulation tools, we encourage the submission of papers on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis, including broader theoretical and practical research contributions. The conference serves as a forum to foster collaborative work by bringing together researchers from academia and industry, and practitioners who develop and who use simulation technologies in a variety of areas.

General areas of interest include: - Simulation methods: discrete event, parallel and distributed, hybrid, load balancing, partitioning, simulation-interoperation - Simulation techniques: service-oriented, agent-based, web-based, component-based, symbiotic simulation - Simulation tools, libraries and frameworks, including specialized tools, such as ns-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, e-cell, and other open source tools - Modeling formalisms: DEVS, Petri Nets, process algebras, state charts, and others - Simulation verification, validation, accreditation, and analysis: benchmark models, simulation-based verification, workflow, simulation experiment design, optimization, and simulation coercion.

The conference also focuses on applications in areas of computer networks and systems, and interdisciplinary areas. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: - Wireless technologies (cellular, vehicular, mesh, ad hoc, wireless sensor networks) - Network models (mobility models, traffic models, network topology) - Overlay networks, peer-to-peer networks - Parallel and distributed systems - Operating systems - Fault tolerant systems - Embedded and real-time systems - Human behavioral models/representations - Security and emergency applications - Transportation and Traffic - Education and training - Logistics and manufacturing - Environmental and biological systems - Military applications

Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages. Authors should submit papers through EasyChair in PDF format, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format. Submitted papers must not have been submitted for review or published (partially or completely) elsewhere. Every paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three different individuals. In exceptional circumstances, papers may not receive full-length reviews and may receive early rejection notice; if they are deemed out of scope, for instance. Papers will be accepted based on originality, correctness, and quality of writing. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. Short papers of 4 to 6 pages, describing work in progress, can be also submitted.

Sponsorship and publication ---------------------------- The event is organized by ICST and CreateNet, in technical cooperation with ACM SIGSIM, ACM SIGMETRICS and SCS. The papers that are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in CD proceedings, in the ACM DL, and in EU-DL. Best papers, pending further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International.

Awards ---------------------------- One Best Paper and one Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be announced during the social event at the conference. Only papers with a student as a first author are eligible for the Best Student Paper Award.

Industry Track ---------------------------- SimulationWorks is the industry track of SIMUTools 2010. The goal of the industry track is to promote the results that have been applied or have a potential application in an industrial field. Submitted papers are required to have at least one author working in industry. The papers will be not so much assessed by their novelty as by their applicability and impact in different fields of industry. Authors are invited to submit either Regular Papers or Short Papers: Regular papers are 5 to 10 pages and will mainly show an application or a research on simulation Short papers are 1 to 3 pages and mainly show the views or the needs of the authors on simulation.

Call for Posters ---------------------------- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Please submit a ONE-page extended abstract in PDF format to posters@simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 10, 2009.

Important dates ---------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline : October 12, 2009 Submission deadline : October 19, 2009 Industry Track Papers Due : November 15, 2009 Poster submission deadline : December 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance : January 12, 2010 Camera-ready deadline : February 1, 2010 Conference in Torremolinos : March 15-19, 2010

Steering Committee ---------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (chair), Create-net, Italy. John Heath, University of So Maine, USA. Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France. Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada.

Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Luiz Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University, USA. Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy.

Programme Chairs: Jason Liu, Florida International University, USA. Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany.

Workshop Chair: Andrea D'Ambrogio, University Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy.

Industry Track Chairs: Herb Schwetman, Sun Microsystems, USA. Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica and UPM, Spain.

Poster Chair: Gabriele D'Angelo, University of Bologna, Italy.

Publicity Chairs: Matteo Andreozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. Leonardo Chwif, Mauá School of Engineering, Brazil. Akihito Hiromori, University of Osaka, Japan.

Publication Chair: Barry Lawson, University of Richmond, USA.

Organizing Chair: Gergely Nagy, ICST.

Web Chair: Nathanael Van Vorst, Florida International University, USA.

Local Organizing Committee: Eduardo Casilari, University of Malaga, Spain. Alfonso Ariza, University of Malaga, Spain. Alicia Trivino-Cabrera, University of Malaga, Spain. Jose M. Cano-Garcia, University of Malaga, Spain. Francisco J. Gonzalez-Canete, University of Malaga, Spain.

Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------------- Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany. Valmir Barbosa, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. David Bauer, High Performance Technologies Inc., USA. Razvan Beuran, NIICT, Japan. Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy. Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA. Chris Carothers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Eduardo Casilari, University of Malaga, Spain. Dave Cavalcanti, Philips, USA. Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy. Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China. Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK. Yu Gu, Auburn University, USA. Xudong He, Florida International University, USA. Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany. Tom Henderson, Boeing Phantom Works & Univ. of Washington, USA. Jan Himmelspach, University of Rostock, Germany. Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Tania Jimenez, University of Avignon, France. Cameron Kiddle, University of Calgary, Canada. Stuart Kurkowski, The Air Force Institute of Technology, USA. Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, Canada. Axel Lehmann, Bundeswehr University of Munich, Germany. Michael Liljenstam, Ericsson, Sweden. Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK. Johannes Luethi, FHS KufsteinTirol, Austria. Benjamin Melamed, Rutgers Business School, USA. Andrew Miner, Iowa State University, USA. Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan. David Nicol, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. James Nutaro, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Patrick Peschlow, University of Bonn, Germany. Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. Martin Quinson, University Henry Poincaré & Loria, Nancy, France. Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia, USA. George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA. Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada. Sean Smith, Dartmouth College, USA. Robert Szabo, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Helena Szczerbicka, University of Hannover, Germany. Koichi Takahashi, Riken, Japan. Dietmar Tutsch, University of Wuppertal, Germany. Stefan Valentin, University of Paderborn, Germany. Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada. Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. Yiping Yao, National University of Defense Technology, China. Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA.