ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) SGB Meeting March 19-20, John Tufarolo SIGSIM Chair

19-20 March SIGSIM Finances (as of 16 Mar 05)

19-20 March SIGSIM Membership

19-20 March SIGSIM Conferences Full Sponsor n International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) –Previously co-sponsored with SIGMOBILE –Now 100% SIGSIM –Attendance: ~50 –Web site varies –Oct 04 in Venezia, Italy

19-20 March SIGSIM Conferences Co-sponsor n Winter Simulation Conference –The premiere discrete event simulation conference –Attendance: ~600 – –Early Dec each year –Various locations: every 3 rd year in DC n Parallel and Distributed Simulation Workshop –Leading parallel simulation workshop –Attendance: ~40 – –May/June each year, various locations

19-20 March SIGSIM Conferences In-cooperation Conferences n Simulation Workshop Series –UK Operational Research Society – –Mid-September, various locations in UK n Simulation Interoperability Workshop –Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization – –Various locations: often in Orlando –2/year: Early Spring and Fall n SIW-Europe (targeted/pending) –1/year: late spring –Various locations in Europe

19-20 March SIGSIM Conferences In-cooperation Conferences (continued) n International Workshop on Inter-Domain Performance and Simulation –Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) –March: Budapest, Hungary n Training, Education & Simulation International (TESI) –Highbury Business, Media House, Swanley Kent – –March: Maastricht, The Netherlands

19-20 March SIGSIM Management Bylaw compliance (elections) n Good election slate –Chair – 2 –Vice-chair – 6 –Sec/Treasurer - 2

19-20 March SIGSIM – TOMACS Editor Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) n TOMACS previous editor (David Nicol) completed a lengthy period as E-I-C ( ) n SIGSIM is grateful to David for the excellent service to the community, and presented a plaque thanking him for his service and dedication in those efforts n TOMACS rotates the responsibility for selecting the E-I-C –SIGSIM was responsible for the next nomination n Richard Nance volunteered to lead the nominating committee n The committee nominated Jim Wilson for the next E-I-C n The nomination was approved, and James R. Wilson is now the current Editor in Chief of TOMACS

19-20 March SIGSIM Current Issues n Need to complete elections n Need to push to help get the Digital Library up to date –New conference agreements take time to get their content into DL