[AISWorld] [JSimE] Panel Discussion: On the Unity and Diversity of Computer Simulation

[Gerd Wagner]

TheJournal of Simulation Engineering (JSimE)  has just published its
latest article:

    A. Drogoul, P. Fishwick, N. Gilbert, D. Pegden, G. Wagner and
    L. Yilmaz. 2018. Panel Discussion: On the Unity and Diversity
    of Computer Simulation.https://articles.jsime.org/1/4/Unity-and-Diversity-of-Simulation


Abstract

The term Computer Simulation subsumes different simulation paradigms,
languages and implementation technologies as well as many different
application areas each with its own scientific communities. So,
there is clearly a lot of conceptual, methodological, technological
and application diversity in the area of Computer Simulation. From
its start in 1967, the Winter Simulation Conference managed to get
four scientific communities involved: computer scientists, electrical
engineers, industrial engineers and mathematicians (operations
researchers). Only later, in 2011 and 2012, an attempt was made to
get environmental and social scientists involved who have been
adopting the idea of "individual-based" or "agent-based" simulation.
Today, two American, a European and an Asian social simulation
conference have been established. How much unity exists between the
scientific areas and communities represented by the Winter
Simulation Conference? How much unity exists between the scientific
areas and communities represented by the newer social science
simulation conferences? And how much unity exists between Discrete
Event Simulation and the newer forms of social science simulation?
These and other questions about the unity and diversity of Computer
Simulation have been discussed via email from April 17 to May 17,
2018, by five leading experts: Alexis Drogoul, Paul Fishwick,
Nigel Gilbert, Dennis Pegden and Levent Yilmaz, moderated by
Gerd Wagner.

--------------------------
Call for Papers

The peer-reviewed and *peer-published* Journal of Simulation
Engineering (JSimE) is dedicated to the accessible dissemination
of research results in simulation engineering to the global modeling
and simulation community by providing *True Open Access*, which
means that the journal is not only accessible to readers, but also
to authors who do not have to pay excessive publication charges.
It also means that research results are not just reported in PDF
files with limited interactivity and accessibility, but are
available in the more accessible HTML format, which allows improved
text retrieval, analysis and indexing, in-document linking,
semantic annotations, multi-media contents and interactivity.

The focus of the journal is on concepts, theories and techniques
for the design and implementation of simulations, simulators and
simulation frameworks, including requirements analysis, modeling
languages, model engineering, user interface design and development
methodologies (like agile or model-driven).
  

-- 

Dr. Gerd Wagner
(1) Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
(2) Adjunct Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, USA
Email:G.Wagner at b-tu.de
-- 
(1) Chair of Internet Technology
Brandenburg University of Technology
Cottbus, Germany
http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/IT
Tel: (+49|0)355.69.2397
-- 
(2) Department Modeling, Simulation
and Visualization Engineering
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, USA