ACM SIGSIM Chair: Paul Fishwick University of Texas at Dallas - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ACM SIGSIM Chair: Paul Fishwick University of Texas at Dallas Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Vice-Chair: Margaret Loper, Treasurer: Andreas Tolk MSKR Editor: Osman Balci (EIC), Associate Editors: Navonil Mustafee, Sakou Y. Diallo

Fund Balance 300 250 200 Amount 150 Discretionary 100 50 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 *vertical axis: in thousands

Member Benefits Students: PhD Colloquium Winter Sim Conference registration waiver, 12 new travel grants ($1K each) New: video tutorials and MSKR repository in revised SIGSIM web space:http://www.acm-sigsim-mskr.org/ (EIC and two associate editors) New: SIGSIM PADS conference (Montreal, Quebec, May 19-22, 2013) Simulation Archives ($5K per year): hosted at NC State University (2012, 2013) Copies of conference proceedings for WSC, PADS (now SIGSIM PADS), and DS-RT

Outreach Video model simulation knowledge repository (MSKR): EIC with two associate editors SIGSIM produced videos, M&S related videos (>1500): http://www.acm-sigsim-mskr.org/Videos/videos.htm Multimedia articles (interview, lecture) Book, Conference, and Journal references

Students Purpose: encourage young members to participate in modeling and simulation area Phd Colloquium at Winter Simulation Conference (WSC): free registration and one lunch (costs shared with INFORMS-Sim), one year of free membership in SIGSIM 12 $1K Travel Grants @ WSC conference 5 $1K Travel Grants @ SIGSIM PADS conference

Social Networking 1 st inaugural SIGSIM PADS Conference to be held in May 2013 in Montreal [80 papers submitted] Leverages former PADS (Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation) conference history Sponsor of: SIGSIM PADS ’ 13 (100%), WSC ’ 12 (25%) (Berlin), DS-RT ’ 12 (10%), MSWIM ’ 12 (100%), PADS ’12 (34%) …. LinkedIn (no Facebook or Twitter yet…)