The 2006 Winter Simulation Conference will be held Dec. 3-6 at the Portola Plaza Hotel in picturesque Monterey, Calif. Adjacent to Fisherman's Warf and downtown Monterey, the Portola Plaza is within walking distance of the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium and a short drive to Carmel, Calif., with its numerous shops and restaurants.

The keynote speaker will be Professor Edward Lee of the University of California at Berkeley. Lee is a well-known researcher in the modeling and simulation field whose research interests center on design, modeling and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is a director of CHESS, the Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems, and is the director of the Berkeley Ptolemy project.

WSC '06 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. The conference includes student presentations, exhibits, training sessions by software vendors, business meetings for professional societies and software user groups, a general reception and a spouse's program. Contributions to the technical program are solicited in the following general areas, although papers in all areas of discrete-event and combined discrete-event/continuous simulation will be considered:

• Introductory and Advanced Tutorials
  
  
• Analysis Methodology
  
  
• Modeling Methodology
  
  
• Business Process Modeling/Reengineering
  
  
• Case Studies
  
  
• Computational Systems Biology
  
  
• Construction Engineering & Project Management
  
  
• Dynamic, Data-Driven Application Simulations
  
  
• General Applications
  
  
• Health Care
  
  
• Homeland Security/Emergency Response
  
  
• Logistics, Transportation & Distribution Applications
  
  
• Manufacturing Applications
  
  
• Military Applications
  
  
• Risk Analysis
  
  
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
  
  
• Simulation Education
  
  
• Simulation-Based Scheduling
  
  
• Software/Modelware Tutorials (Vendor track)
  
  
• Telecommunication Applications
  
  
• Virtual Reality and Simulation

Paper Deadlines and Requirements
All contributed paper submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the CD-ROM versions of the conference proceedings, which will be copyrighted and widely disseminated. A paper must accompany all presentations and tutorials except those in the Vendor/Exhibitor track, the Simulation Case Studies track, the

Poster Session and the Ph.D. Colloquium. Instructions, information and submission forms and procedures are available on the WSC Web site, www.wintersim.org.

Important deadlines:

April 3: Electronically submit contributed papers not previously published or presented. Each submission must be a 3-to-10-page paper, including an abstract of not more than 150 words. Submission implies that an author will attend WSC '06 to present the paper, and all clearance required for publication of the paper will be obtained by July 15. Use of one of the following formats is required: Microsoft Word or LaTeX.

June 5: Contributors will be notified whether or not their paper has been accepted.

July 15: Authors electronically provide a final manuscript meeting all requirements to the Proceedings editor.

Sept. 15: Deadline to electronically submit abstracts for presentations in the Simulation Case Studies track (the submission form will be available Aug. 1), as well as electronic submission of abstracts for presentations in the Poster Session and Ph.D. Student Colloquium. Simulation Case Studies require involvement from an industrial sponsor.

Ph.D. Student Colloquium
The INFORMS Simulation Society invites Ph.D. students to present short research summaries on Dec. 3. Colloquium presenters also participate in the Poster Session. Nominations for the Ph.D. Colloquium will be solicited in fall 2006.

For additional information, please contact General Chair David Nicol (nicol@crhc.uiuc.edu) or Program Chair Richard Fujimoto (wsc06@cc.gatech.edu).

WSC '06 is sponsored by ACM/SIGSIM, ASA, IEEE/CS, IEEE/SMCS, IIE, INFORMS-SIM, NIST and SCS.






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