2026 Winter Simulation Conference
December 6-9, 2026
Scottish Event Campus Ltd & Crowne Plaza Glasgow, Scotland
Simulation for Climate Resilience
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For the first time in its 55+ year history, the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) will be held in the United Kingdom! Join us at our next stop in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, from December 6–9, 2026.
Thematic Focus - Climate Resilience
The 2026 Winter Simulation Conference will focus on one of the most pressing challenges confronting humanity – Building resilience in the face of climate change. Next to the traditional conference tracks the conference therefore features a special track on "Simulation for Climate Resilience", dedicated to papers that explore innovative uses of simulation to understand, assess, and enhance the resilience of systems facing climate-related challenges.
Call-for-Papers Information
The full call-for-papers is already online and the author kit will be available shortly. The conference website is available at https://www.wintersim.org.
Submission Information
The paper submission timeline is given below. Please note that full papers are required at the respective deadlines for contributed and invited papers. If you want to contribute with a poster or a presentation in the Industry track, an extended abstract is needed. A full breakdown of paper types and associated deadlines is available at https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2026/call-for-papers/.
April 5: Paper submission deadline for Contributed papers
April 24: Paper submission deadline for Invited papers
July 31: Extended abstract submission deadline for Posters and Industry Track
August 28: Abstract submission deadline for PhD Colloquium
All submissions will be peer reviewed.
WSC 2026 Points of Contact
Nav Mustafee, General Chair
Stephan Onggo, Program Chair
WSC 2026 Publicity Committee
Steffen Strassburger, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Canan Gunes Corlu, Boston University, USA
Enver Yucesan, INSEAD, France
Hasan Turan, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Jayendran Venkateswaran, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India
José Arnaldo Barra Montevechi, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil
Jun Luo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Mehdi Souier, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
Tillal Eldabi, University of Bradford, UK
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Canan Gunes Corlu
Associate Professor
Boston University
Boston MA
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