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                IEEE WETICE 2010

         1st International Workshop on

     Collaborative Modeling and Simulation

                CALL FOR PAPERS

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June 28 - June 30, 2010, Larissa (Greece)

http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS10

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# Papers Due: *** March 2, 2010 ***

# 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 because of the more

complex models and of 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 workshop 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 hi-level topics includes:


* collaborative environments for M&S

* agent-based M&S

* collaborative distributed simulation

* 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


To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop 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'10 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners

to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative

applications and trends in the workshop 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.


Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the

proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE

approval pending). Note that at least one author from each

accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2010 to get 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

(
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets10), which is
supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please

contact the workshop chairs (
comets10@easychair.org) if you
experience problems with the EasyChair Web site.


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Important Dates

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* Submission Deadline: March 2, 2010

* Decision to paper authors: April 2, 2010

* Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 14, 2010

* Conference dates: June 28 - June 30, 2010


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Organizing Committee

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* Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

* Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, Netherlands

* Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, Netherlands

* Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy


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Program Committee

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* Michele Angelaccio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

* Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France

* Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK

* Alessandra Pieroni, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy

* Andrew Rice, University of Cambridge, UK

* José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

* Helena Szczerbicka, University of Hannover, Germany

* Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Canada

* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada

* J.Chris White, ViaSim Solutions, USA

* Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, Netherlands

* Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China


*** Contact Information ***

Andrea D'Ambrogio (workshop co-chair)

Email:
dambro@info.uniroma2.it