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                 IEEE WETICE 2011 
            2nd International Track on 
       Collaborative Modeling and Simulation 
                 CALL FOR PAPERS 
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June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11 

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# Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 *** 
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings 
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. 
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Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central 
activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of 
existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to 
investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For 
this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and 
research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, 
manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and 
sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the 
investigated systems increases and the types of investigations 
widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more 
complex models and for the communications among a wider number and 
variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator 
users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address 
the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative 
technologies must be introduced to support these activities by 
fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the 
communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by 
integrating processes, tools and platforms. 

Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to 
M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that 
deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of 
collaborative environments. These environments are continuously 
becoming more complex and therefore their design requires 
systematic approaches to meet the required quality of 
collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce 
rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to 
maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the 
collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies 
and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to 
improve the quality of collaborative environments. 

A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

* collaborative environments for M&S
* collaborative Systems of Systems M&S
* workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes
* agent-based M&S
* collaborative distributed simulation
* collaborative component-based M&S
* net-centric M&S
* web-based M&S
* model sharing and reuse
* model building and evaluation
* modeling and simulation of business processes
* modeling for collaboration
* simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks
* model-driven simulation engineering
* domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments
* domain specific languages for collaborative M&S
* databases and repositories for M&S
* distributed virtual environments
* virtual research environment for M&S

To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider 
scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions 
that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. 

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On-Line Submissions and Publication 
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CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners 
to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative 
applications and trends in the track research area. 

Papers should contain original contributions not published or 
submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, 
tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the 
IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt 
Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) 
and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee 
members. 

Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and
 published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE 
approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each 
accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the 
paper published in the proceedings. 

Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests 
and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted 
in PDF format at the submission site 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011), which is 
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please 
contact the track chairs (comets2011@easychair.org) if you 
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. 

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Important Dates 
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* Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011 
* Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011 
* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011 
* Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011 


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Organizing Committee 
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy 
* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands 
* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands 
* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy 

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Program Committee 
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* Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China 
and California State University, USA
* Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
* Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands
* Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA
* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK
* David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ
* Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University, Canada
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

*** Contact Information *** 
Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) 
Email: daniele.gianni@esa.int