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Dear colleagues,

Deadline for submitting your paper to SIMUTools 2008, the First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems is now 10 days away, as the paper submission deadline is **October 15, 2007**.

Note that the following workshops will be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008. You will find the different call-for-papers on their respective websites: - QoSim 2008 http://www.qosim.org/ - PNTAP 2008 http://www.pntap.org/ - OMNeT++ WS 2008 http://www.omnet-workshop.org/

You are welcome to forward this message to your friends and colleagues working in the field.

Kind regards, Thomas Watteyne.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIMUTools 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

March 3-7, 2008, Marseille, France http://www.simutools.org

Full Papers due: October 15, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version: http://www.simutools.org/docs/CallForPaper.pdf)

SIMUTools 2008 is the first international conference focusing on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and Systems. The conference will address all aspects of simulation modelling and analysis. Papers are sought on the topics of methodology, tools, applications, and practices. Particular emphasis will be given to papers that bridge multiple areas.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to * Methodology/Simulation Art: Web based simulation, Agent based simulation, Petri Nets simulation, Fluid flow simulation, Bond Graphs simulation, Simulation-based Scheduling * Application areas: Telecommunication, Network Security, Health Care, Transportation, Manufacturing, Public Systems, Education and Training * Tools: OPNET, NS-2, interconnected simulation platforms, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools...

The event is in cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in relevant special issues of leading journals. Authors of accepted papers should register and present their work at the conference. A poster session will accommodate short papers and works in progress.

--------------- Important Dates --------------- - Full Papers due: October 15, 2007 - Notification of Acceptance: December 14, 2007 - Camera-ready Manuscripts due: January 18, 2008 - Conference Dates: March 3-7, 2008

----------------------- Submission Instructions & Reviewing Policy ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit either Regular Papers or Short Papers, in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). Regular papers are 6 to 10 pages long, are eligible for Best Paper award, and may be selected for publication in a Journal. Short papers are 4 to 6 pages long and do not compete for Best Paper award or Journal Selection. Short Papers are intended for authors that wish to present their ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted.

------------------ Call for Workshops ------------------ We solicit workshop proposals on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems. We are seeking high-quality submissions that focus on a specific theme of current interest. Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference are solicited and should be forwarded to the workshops chairs workshop.simutools@icst.org by *September 21, 2007*. Acceptance notification by *October 1, 2007*.

----------------------- Call for Panel Sessions ----------------------- Panel sessions proposals should be submitted to panel.simutools@icst.org by *September 21, 2007*. Proposals should state the session title, a description of the topic, and the names of key organizers and potential panelists. Panel Session topics will be decided by *November 10, 2007*.

-------------------------------- Call for Exhibitors at EXPOTools -------------------------------- In addition to the main technical program, the conference will hold a parallel exhibition, EXPOTools. This will be a unique opportunity for industry, researchers and professionals to exhibit simulation tools, techniques and related products. For exhibitor information contact the conference coordinator, Zita Rozsa, expotool.simutools@icst.org by *February 8, 2008*.

----------------------- Call for Poster Session ----------------------- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster.simutools@icst.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, 2007*. Acceptance notifications will be emailed by *December 17, 2007*.

---------------------- Organization Committee ----------------------

Steering Committee Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy (Chair) John Heath, University of So Maine, USA (Co-Chair)

General Chairs Sándor Molnár, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary John Heath, University of So Maine, USA

Technical Program Chairs Olivier Dalle, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada

Industry Track Chair Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research Ltd., United Kingdom Herb Schwetman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST US

Local Chair Claudia Frydman, LSIS - Université Aix-Marseille, France

Workshop Chairs Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, USA

Local Workshop Chair Joanna Moulierac, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France

Publication Chair Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, France Telecom R&D, France

Conference Organization Chair Zita Rozsa, ICST Europe

------------------ Program Committees ------------------

Andrea D'Ambrogio, University Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Fernando Barros, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jean-Pierre Briot, LIP6, Paris, France Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs & LRI, France Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Carlos Christoffersen, Lakehead University, Canada Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France Bernard Espinasse, LSIS, Marseille, France Sally Floyd, ICIR, Berkeley, USA Jean-Marie Garcia, QoSDesign, France Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, Marseille, France Erek Gokturk, University of Oslo, Norway Tom Henderson, Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA David R.C. Hill, ISIMA, Aubière, France Dohy Hong, N2NSoft, France Kurt Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Tania Jimenez, University of Avignon, France Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tag Gon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Ernesto Kofman, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Mathieu Lacage, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, Canada Zhen Liu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Chung-Horng Lung, Carleton University, Canada Pieter J. Mosterman, The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA Ioannis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Martin Quinson, University Henry Poincaré & Loria, France George F. Riley, Georgia Tech Institute, USA Robert Szabó, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Dietmar Tutsch, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Jean-Marc Vincent, ENSIMAG, France Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Bernard P. Zeigler, Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA

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