3rd International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim13) part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation SCS SpringSim 2013)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Workshop on
Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering
part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation
(SCS SpringSim 2013)

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April 7-10, 2013, San Diego, CA (USA)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim13

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# Papers Due: *** November 1, 2012 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
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The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based, model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering.

Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to software systems engineering activities through the provision of consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for example.

The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering. As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs, development effort and time-to-market.

Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the respective simulator).

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Important Dates
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* Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
* Decision to paper authors: January 10, 2013
* Camera ready due: February 5, 2013
* Conference dates: April 7-10, 2013

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Organizing Committee
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* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands