Coming Events - MOSIM'06

MOSIM ‘06 -Modelling and Simulation Conference, April 2006, Rabat, Marocco

The next edition of the MOSIM conference will be organized in Rabat in Morocco (April 2006) by two engineering schools: the EMI (Ecole Mohammedia d’Ingénieurs) and the ENIM (Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale).

Report EUROSIM'04, Paris

The Congress EUROSIM'04 took place in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, France, on September 6-10, 2004.

More than 180 people participated and 167 papers were presented in two parallel sessions. The presentations were organised into 15 main sessions and 9 special sessions. These sessions covered the wide ranging field of modelling and simulation and covered both basic subjects and applications. The presentations were from industry as well as from academia. The selected papers will be published in the SIMPRA journal.

 Dinner Speech of Y. Hamam (2nd from left)

 Participants from CSSS

Savastano award 2004. In 2004 the recipient of the award was Dr. Giuseppe Vairo from Italy, for the best paper published in the SIMPRA Journal during the period 2001-2003. The title of the paper was: A numerical model for wind loads simulation on long-span bridges (SIMPRA, Volume 11, Issues 5-6, 15 August 2003, Pages 315-351). The award was presented on occasion of EUROSIM'04.

 G. Vairo, winner of Svastano award (left) with B. Zupancic, EUROSIM president

Report Conference MOSIM'04

The MOSIM Conference is now an essential place for French-speaking researchers in Computer Science and Operations Research working on various aspects of modeling and simulation. MOSIM is now an established forum which offers the opportunity of sharing the last theoretical ad-vances in these fields, and which is aimed at theorists and practitioners that are concerned with the devel-opment of simulation, operations research, decision support, analysis, design and optimization of industrial and logistic systems.

Thanks to the quality of the preceding editions, which were held in Rouen (1997), in Annecy (1999), in Troyes (2001) and in Toulouse (2003), the MOSIM conference has now a very high scientific reputation. Several international journals are associated the con-ference and articles of the conference are selected for special issues and regular issues. The Steering Committee and the Scientific Committee did their best to ensure that the 2004 edition of MOSIM continues this tradition and contributes to the reinforcement of the prestige of the conference.

Indeed, 184 articles were submitted, coming from about ten different countries. The scientific com-mittee has selected 131 articles that have been pub-lished in the Proceedings (after being duly evalu-ated by two referees). The selected articles were or-ganized in 42 sessions over three days. Moreover, well-know researchers gave 4 invited conferences. MOSIM'04 thus showed that the MOSIM conference is well established and that it meets an actual need from the scientific community. The conference was spon-sored by several international and national scientific organizations (SCS, EURO, ESRA, ROADEF, SO-GESCI-B.V.W.B., ImDR-SdF, GDR MACS), local communities (Région Pays de la Loire, Nantes Métro-pole), industrials (SEGULA, Rockwell Software), the IRCCYN, the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, the Univer-sity of Nantes and AIP PRIMECA.

About 200 people participated to MOSIM’04, in-cluding approximately 70 students. MOSIM’04 en-ables participants, in the nice surroundings of the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, to perform an interesting and fruitful work, to establish new contacts and to develop new ideas and collaborations. It is important to note that very few presentations have been cancelled. It is during the conference dinner, which proceeded in a very good atmosphere, that were announced the at-tribution of the price for young researchers to two Ph.D. students and the next edition of the MOSIM conference in Rabat, in Morocco, through a collabora-tion between the EMI (Ecole Mohammedia d’Ingénieurs) and the ENIM (Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale).

It is necessary to thank the entire Steering Com-mittee for their important work and their continuous ef-fort, as well as the Ph.D. students of the SLP and ACSED teams of the IRCCyN that agreed to give a big help during the three days of the conference.

Moreover, MOSIM' 04 would not have been possible without the agreement of the directions of the Ecole des Mines de Nantes and the IRCCyN, and without the assistance and support of the various services of the Ecole des Mines de Nantes.

Lastly, it is also necessary to thank the organizers of the invited sessions, the referees who did an excellent work and all the participants of MOSIM' 04for their contribution to the success of this scientific meeting.

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