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[JSimE] Panel Discussion: On the Unity and Diversity of Computer Simulation

  • 1.  [JSimE] Panel Discussion: On the Unity and Diversity of Computer Simulation

    Posted 06-26-2018 10:46
    The Journal of Simulation Engineering (https://JSimE.org) has just published its latest article:

    A. Drogoul, P. Fishwick, N. Gilbert, D. Pegden, G. Wagner and L. Yilmaz. 2018.
    Panel Discussion: On the Unity and Diversity of Computer Simulation.
    https://articles.jsime.org/1/4/Unity-and-Diversity-of-Simulation

    Abstract

    The term Computer Simulation subsumes different simulation paradigms, languages and implementation technologies as well as many different application areas each with its own scientific communities. So, there is clearly a lot of conceptual, methodological, technological and application diversity in the area of Computer Simulation. From its start in 1967, the Winter Simulation Conference managed to get four scientific communities involved: computer scientists, electrical engineers, industrial engineers and mathematicians (operations researchers). Only later, in 2011 and 2012, an attempt was made to get environmental and social scientists involved who have been adopting the idea of "individual-based" or "agent-based" simulation. Today, two American, a European and an Asian social simulation conference have been established. How much unity exists between the scientific areas and communities represented by the Winter Simulation Conference? How much unity exists between the scientific areas and communities represented by the newer social science simulation conferences? And how much unity exists between Discrete
    Event Simulation and the newer forms of social science simulation? These and other questions about the unity and diversity of Computer
    Simulation have been discussed via email from April 17 to May 17, 2018, by five leading experts: Alexis Drogoul, Paul Fishwick, Nigel Gilbert, Dennis Pegden and Levent Yilmaz, moderated by Gerd Wagner.

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    Call for Papers

    The peer-reviewed and peer-published Journal of Simulation Engineering (https://JSimE.org) is dedicated to the accessible dissemination of research results in simulation engineering to the global modeling and simulation community by providing True Open Access, which means that the journal is not only accessible to readers, but also to authors who do not have to pay excessive publication charges. It also means that research results are not just reported in PDF files with limited interactivity and accessibility, but are available in the more accessible HTML format, which allows improved text retrieval, analysis and indexing, in-document linking, semantic annotations, multi-media contents and interactivity.

    The focus of the journal is on concepts, theories and techniques for the design and implementation of simulations, simulators and simulation frameworks, including requirements analysis, modeling languages, model engineering, user interface design and development methodologies (like agile or model-driven).

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    Gerd Wagner
    Professor
    Brandenburg University of Technology
    Cottbus
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