Did you plan on skipping the upcoming solar eclipse viewing parties on Aug. 21? Was your search for specially filtered glasses or welder’s masks futile? Do you plan on staying indoors that day to avoid the gawking masses staring [..]
The notions of state and discrete event were allied abstractions onceived to characterize models underlying the operations research techniques that emerged in the mid-1950s. At that time the limitations of queueing analysis methods [..]
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July 18, 2017
Why Simulation?
Simulations are everywhere. From your car to your home and in your place of work you are as likely to interact with a simulated entity as you are with a real human being. Who are the people who make simulations? What do they think [..]
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April 25, 2017
Editor’s Pick – A Modeling Methodology For Designing Agents Networks Using Timed Hybrid Petri Nets
This paper presents a modeling methodology for designing networked agents systems. It focuses on the agent hybrid state representation, its dynamic [..]
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March 24, 2017
Editor’s Pick – An Evolutionary Approach to Solve The Dynamic Multihop Ridematching
The multihop ridesharing system generates a ridematching solution with an arbitrary number of transfers that respects personal preferences of [..]
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December 6, 2016
Vacancy for PhD fellow
Dear colleagues from the Society for Modeling and Simulation, At Universiy of Agder (in Norway, Europe), we are looking for a PhD Research Fellow in Mathematics Education for the LaSiRA project (Learning about Simulations as a Research Approach). The aim […]
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November 8, 2016
Conference Updates from SCS VP Conferences Saikou Diallo
Some exciting updates and changes have been taking place for SCS Conferences. Here are a few things we’d like to share with you: New Author’s Kit: SCS has developed a new Author’s Kit which has some changes from prior Author’s […]
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November 1, 2016
Editor’s Pick – Influence of Personal Protective Equipment on The Performance of Life-saving Interventions By Emergency Medical Service Personnel
Tae Han Kim¹, Chu Hyun Kim², Sang Do Shin¹ and Sunnie Haam³ Abstract Prompt live-saving interventions, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), intravenous cannulation (IVC), and endotracheal intubation (ETI), are important for severely injured victims of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear […]
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September 29, 2016
SummerSim 2016 Award Winners
The following awards were given out recently at the 2016 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, held July 24-27, 2016 in Montreal, Canada. Congratulations to the winners! Overall Best Paper “Centroidal Particles for Interactive Crowd Simulation” by Omar Hesham and Gabriel Wainer Overall […]
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August 5, 2016
Student Chapter – Old Dominion University
The Old Dominion SCS chapter had a very eventful and successful year to look back on. During the 2015-2016 school year we had a total of nine events ranging from social activities to fundraisers to MODSIM World conferences. Our chapter kicked off the […]
