2020 - MODELING AND SIMULATION AS A SERVICE (MSaaS’20) Track

AIMS AND SCOPE
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Modeling & Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) is gaining momentum as an effective approach to bringing the benefits of service-oriented architectures and cloud computing into the arena of modeling and simulation (M&S), so as to enhance interoperability, composability, reusability and reduce the cost of M&S efforts.
MSaaS is intended to be a means of delivering on-demand M&S applications, capabilities and resources, as well as the associated data. MSaaS is at its early stages and is being addressed and investigated by international efforts, such as the NATO Modelling & Simulation Group (NMSG), as a promising approach to provide the technical and organizational foundations for service-based M&S ecosystems.
The MSaaS SCSC track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, defense and government to present innovative ideas, experiences, and challenges that address service-oriented and cloud-based issues in the field of M&S and vice versa.
The track organizers invite high-quality submissions describing relevant, original and unpublished theoretical and/or practical contributions related to (but not limited to) the topics illustrated below:
*** Theory and methodology ***
- MSaaS and service orientation
- MSaaS and cloud service model
- MSaaS-based parallel and distributed simulation
- MSaaS reference architectures
- MSaaS-based modeling approaches (web-based modeling languages, metamodels, model transformations)
- Model-based approaches for MSaaS
- Verification, validation and accreditation
- Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) issues
- Data exchange and interoperability issues
- Privacy, security and ownership issues
- Synchronization and communication
- Resource management, load balancing and scheduling
- Sensor/IoT and multimedia data management
- Cost estimation models
- Service description and service discovery
- Ontologies for MSaaS
- MSaaS governance
- MSaaS standardization
*** Tools and platforms ***
- MSaaS middleware
- Service repositories
- Service discovery, composition and orchestration
- MSaaS deployment
- MSaaS programming models
- Open source platforms
- Enterprise service bus
- Public/private cloud providers
- Virtualization and containerization
- IoT and mobile development
*** Application domains and case studies ***
- Military and defense systems
- Manufacturing systems
- Business administration, finance and economy (business process management, enterprise resource planning, etc.)
- Governance and Government Policy Making
- Medicine and healthcare
- Space
- Telecommunications
- Education
- Games and entertainment
- Emergency management and critical infrastructures
- Cyber physical systems
- Cyber security
- Business intelligence
- Energy management
- Systems engineering (systems of systems, ultra large scale systems)