SESSION 1: Leveraging Ontologies for Modeling and Simulation

There is a rapidly increasing amount of domain knowledge being captured in Web-based ontologies that is ripe for exploitation by developers of simulation models. Unfortunately, this exploitation is limited due to the lack of effective methodologies/tools for finding and utilizing such knowledge. This session of the Modeling Methodology Track of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference is seeking papers that

1. lay out a vision of how to best exploit such knowledge,
2. present tools for facilitating the use of such knowledge or
3. present case studies illustrating the effectiveness of one or more approaches.

There are many problems to be solved and tools to be developed. There are analogs to many of the problems faced by researchers in the fields of the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services including issues of ontology engineering, ontology alignment, ontology mapping, discovery, composition, interoperability, model morphisms and model checking.

1. Contributed Paper

2. Contributed Paper

3. SoPT: Ontology for Simulation Optimization for Scientific Experiments
   Jun Han (University of Georgia), Gregory A. Silver (Anderson University) and John A. Miller (University of Georgia)

SESSION 2: Web Simulation Science

Web Simulation Science encompasses both engineering and scientific inquiry on structures found in the Web which rely on discrete event, continuous or combined simulation. This session of the Modeling Methodology Track covers papers relating to the Semantic Web (e.g., ontologies; Web-based knowledge; model representation) as well as methods and tools that are Web-embedded (e.g., data, model and process workflows; model translation). The session also encourages discussion of topics related to data and process models acquired through analysis of the Web. Web Simulation Science may be viewed as a component of the emerging discipline of Web Science.

1. Contributed Paper

2. Industrial Challenges for Web Simulation Science
   Simon J.E. Taylor (Brunel University)

3. Linking Simulation and Visualization Construction through Interaction with Ontology Visualizations
   Zach Ezzell, Paul A. Fishwick and Juan Cendan (University of Florida)

All contributed papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. When submitting your paper, please indicate that the Modeling Methodology Track is your first preference. The deadline for electronic paper submission is April 1, 2011. For further information on the paper submission process, please see the WSC'11 CFP.

If interested in writing a paper for one of these sessions, you may send e-mail to John A. Miller (jam AT cs DOT uga DOT edu) or Paul Fishwick (fishwick AT cise DOT ufl DOT edu).