Aims and Scope

The Summer Simulation Conference 2014 (SummerSim’14) is SCS’s premier international conference in cooperation with ACM SIGSIM. The conference focuses on modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications and provides a forum for the latest R&D results in academia and industry. This year’s focus is on hybrid, discrete and continuous systems, and advanced modern applications thereof. We encourage you to take this opportunity to experience the tutorials, tracks, and workshops that will be available.


Organizing Committee

General Chair: Dr. Justyna Zander, HumanoidWay, Gdansk University of Technology, USA/Poland
General Co-Chair: Dr. Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, L3 Communications, USA
Honorary Program Chair: Dr. Andreas Tolk, SimIS Inc., Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Program Chair: Dr. Zhi Han, MathWorks, Inc., USA
Proceedings Chair: Dr. Eugene Syriani, University of Alabama, USA
Publicity Chair: Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
Local Logistics Chair: John F. Richardson, SPAWAR Systems Center PACIFIC, USA

Steering Committee

Prof. Dr. Abdolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Francesco Longo, University of Calabria, Italy
Prof. Dr. Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain
Dr. Pieter J. Mosterman, MathWorks, Inc., USA

Advisory Committee

Prof. Dr. Tuncer Ören, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Prof. Dr. Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
Prof. Dr. François Cellier, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Bernard P. Zeigler, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA



A selected group of the best papers of SummerSim 2014 will be invited to be published in a Special Issue devoted to SummerSim 2014. All authors are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers to the Special Issue according to the guidelines found on the webpage.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference, present their work to their peers, transfer copyright, and pay a conference registration fee at the time their camera-ready paper is submitted. All papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in both the SCS digital library and the ACM Digital Library, and will be indexed in DBLP and SCOPUS.