SIMUTools 2009 - Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques SIMUTools 2009

Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
March 2-6, 2009 - Rome (Italy)
http://www.simutools.org

++ Sponsored by ICST/CREATE-NET ++
In technical cooperation with ACM SIGSIM, SIGMETRICS, SCS, INRIA

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* *EXTENDED DEADLINE* *EXTENDED DEADLINE*
++ Extended paper submission deadline: November 2, 2008 ++

SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation
Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of
the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus
on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality
papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications,
and practices.

-- TOPICS --

The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers
together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and
from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will
address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and
practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this
area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools,
the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical
and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are
not limited to:

** Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event,
Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond
Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation
interoperability techniques, etc.

** Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola,
Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc.

The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks,
computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various
areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating
collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems
and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly
encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to:

* Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks,
cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.)
* Mobility models
* Overlay networks
* Network traffic modeling and generation
* Topology generation
* Quality of service
* Networked applications and new networking paradigms
* Energy-efficient computing
* Distributed systems
* Operating systems
* Interconnection networks
* Fault tolerant systems
* Embedded and real time systems
* Logistics
* Security and emergency response
* Health care
* Transportation
* Manufacturing
* Education and training
* Environmental and biological systems
* Social networks
* Public systems

-- SUBMISSION --

Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the
ACM conference proceedings format, through the Easychair conference
management system, according to the indications given on this page:

* http://www.simutools.org/2009/Publication/Submissi...

Regular papers should be 7 to 10 pages. Work-in-Progress papers,
describing ongoing work, should be 4 to 6 pages. Only original papers,
written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere,
will be considered for publication, after a peer-review process.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present
the work at the conference.

-- SPONSORSHIP --

The event is organized by ICST in cooperation with the ACM Special
Interest Groups on computer/communication system performance
(SIGMETRICS) and Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling
and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made
available in the ACM Digital Library, and they will be indexed by EI
and ISI. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for
publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society
for Modeling and Simulation, International.

-- AWARDS --

A Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and
will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event.

-- CALL FOR POSTER SESSION --

Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations.
Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to
poster-AT-simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the
Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required
to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts
are due by December 8, 2008.

-- DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER --

** RICHARD STALLMAN launched the development of the GNU operating system
(see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the
freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes
either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU
operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of
computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a
MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic
Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.

-- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS --

** DAVID NICOL University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory

** FRANCESCO QUAGLIA - Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy
Associate Professor, School of Engineering

-- WORKSHOPS --

* WNS3 - Mar 2, 2009
1st International Workshop on NS-3
http://www.wns3.org/

* TEMACS 2009 - Mar 2, 2009
1st International Workshop on Workshop on Traffic Engineering,
Modelling, Analysis, Control and Simulation
http://www.temacs.org/

* Omnet++ - Mar 6, 2009
2nd International Workshop on OMNeT++
http://www.omnet-workshop.org/

* QoSim - Mar 6, 2009
2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service
through Simulation in the Future Internet
http://www.qosim.org/

* SCENES 2009 - Mar 6, 2009
1st International Workshop on SCEnarios for Network Evaluation Studies
http://www.scenes-workshop.org/

-- IMPORTANT DATES --

Submission deadline: November 2, 2008 (EXTENDED, was Oct. 19)
Notification of acceptance: Jan 2, 2009
Camera ready: Jan 11, 2009
Conference: March 3-5, 2009

-- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS --

* Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa
* Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University

-- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE --

* Andrea Bacioccola - Nokia, Helsinki, Finland
* Valmir Carneiro Barbosa - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Fernando Barros - University of Coimbra, Portugal
* Razvan Beuran - NICT/JAIST, Japan
* Luciano Bononi - University of Bologna, Italy
* Jean-Pierre Briot - LIP6, Paris, France
* Tracy Camp - Colorado School of Mines, USA
* Jiannong Cao - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
* Franck Cappello - INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France
* Carlos Christoffersen - Lakehead University, Canada
* Gianfranco Ciardo - University of California at Riverside, USA
* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
* Lorenzo Donatiello - University of Bologna, Italy
* Bernard Espinasse - LSIS, Marseille, France
* Richard Fujimoto - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Jean-Marie Garcia - QoS Design, France
* Javier Garcia Villalba - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
* Norbert Giambiasi - LSIS, Marseille, France
* Tom Henderson - Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA
* Dohy Hong - N2NSoft, France
* Polly Huang - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
* Tania Jimenez - University of Avignon, France
* Helen Karatza - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Ernesto Kofman - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
* Pierre L'Ecuyer - University of Montreal, Canada
* Michael Liljenstam - Ericsson, Sweden
* Zhen Liu - IBM Watson Research Center, USA
* Chung-Horng Lung - Carleton University, Canada
* Benjamin Melamed - Rutger Business School, USA
* Enzo Mingozzi - University of Pisa, Italy
* Sandor Molnar - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
* Pieter Mosterman - Mathworks, USA
* Krzysztof Pawlikowski - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
* Ramon Puigjaner - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
* Francesco Quaglia - Univesity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
* Martin Quinson - University Henry Poincare' & Loria, Nancy, France
* George Riley - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Herb Schwetman - Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
* Robert Szabo - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
* Georgios Theodoropoulos - University of Birmingham, UK
* Dietmar Tutsch - Technical University of Berlin, Germany
* Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany
* Stefan Valentin - University of Paderborn, Germany
* Jean-Marc Vincent - ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France
* You-Chiun Wang - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
* Bernard Zeigler - Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA

-- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --

Steering Chair
* Imrich Chlamtach, Create-Net

Steering Co-chair
* John Heath, University of Southern Maine

General Chairs
* Olivier Dalle, INRIA/University of Nice
* Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University

Local Chair
* Andrea D'Ambrogio, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Publicity Chairs
* Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy (Europe)
* Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Asia/Pacific)
* Rodrigo Castro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (America)

Publication Chair
* Frederic Mallet , INRIA/University of Nice

Organizing Chair
* Melissa Ezell, ICST

Financial Chair
* Karen Decker, ICST

Web Chair
* Juan-Carlos Maureira, INRIA

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