The Batten College supports Summer-Multisimulation Conference in Istanbul

From July 13-16, 2009, the Society for Modeling and Simulation conducted the annual Summer-Multisimulation Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. During these four days, M&S experts from all over the world met to discuss the emerging discipline and its applications. The Batten College was represented with four experts as well, playing a leading role in planning and executing this event as well.

Dr. Andreas Tolk was a member of the program committee and chaired three tracks, focusing on engineering applications of M&S for optimization and support of real life operations. He furthermore organized an international panel discussion on the emerging M&S challenges for human, social, cultural, and behavioral modeling.

Dr. Resit Unal co-chaired the engineering management and M&S efforts and chaired a track focusing on engineering management challenges. He also co-authored a paper on a general framework for better use of M&S for optimization, which was presented by Dr. Gaith Rabadi.

Dr. John Sokolowski presented a paper on agent-based models featuring the latest results of his current research at VMASC. He also supported the panel discussion as a member of the panel group.

Old Dominion University is represented in three executive committees for education, publication, and conferences. In particular the new M&S bachelor program was of interest to the international partners. The research and education conducted at Old Dominion University is well known and respected in the Society, and several collaboration opportunities were identified during the conference.