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Texas Scientists Create Computer Simulations Previewing Total Solar Eclipse
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 [..]
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How Theory and Abstraction Drive Progress in Simulation Science and Practice
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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]