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61st International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS 2020
The 61st International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS 2020, arranged as a Virtual Conference on September 22-24, 2020.
Information
The 61st SIMS conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 2020) was organized as a virtual conference. Originally, this conference was planned to be the first SIMS EUROSIM conference and organized in Oulu, Finland. The COVID-19 pandemic presented tremendous challenges for the global research community and for the entire world. The organizers were first postponing the deadlines and keeping the plan of organizing the conference in person. Since the pandemic was continuing strongly, the plans were changed: the SIMS 2020 was decided to organize as a virtual conference in September 2020 and the first SIMS EUROSIM conference in September 2021.
The conference program consisted of four keynote presentations, a SIMS history review, 70 regular presentations and a panel discussion. The proceedings include 68 full papers. The keynotes and the history review are included as abstracts. The call for papers resulted in 81 submissions prepared by 181 authors from eleven countries. The reviews of all submissions were done by four chairs, eleven IPC members and 37 international reviewers. Full papers were selected on the grounds of academic merit and relevance to the conference theme. Each submission had 2-4 reviews and the acceptance rate was 84% for the full papers published in the proceedings.
The SIMS 61 conference covered broad aspects of simulation, modeling and optimization in engineering applications, including many papers on energy, industry, circular economy, automation and methodologies. Panel discussions were organised on future challenges and possibilities for simulation. The discussion focused on five areas: simulation, energy systems, big data, environment and simulation toolboxes.
All the sessions were held in a virtual conference organized in Zoom. A group of students from the Process Engineering Guild, University of Oulu, were helping the session chairs and co-chairs by taking care of the system operation as session hosts.
Proceedings
The Proceedings has been published by Linköping University Press in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings No. 176 :
ISSN: 1650-3686, eISSN: 1650-3740, ISBN 978-91-7929-731-2.
ISSN: 1650-3686, eISSN: 1650-3740, ISBN 978-91-7929-731-2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp20176
Entire Proceedings: 68 papers, 485+26 pages, 61 194 KB,
Entire Proceedings: 68 papers, 485+26 pages, 61 194 KB,
Author instructions
All papers should use the following templates LaTeX or DOC:
The MSWord template has been updated by including more details about bibliographic citing and references.
The peer-reviewed conference articles will be published in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings Series (publication level 1 in Finland and Norway). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings is an open access archive.
- The length of the scientific papers should be 6 pages, the maximum is 8 pages.
The peer-reviewed conference articles will be published in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings Series (publication level 1 in Finland and Norway). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings is an open access archive.
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/index.en.asp
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/index.en.asp
- The length of the industrial papers should from 4 to 8 pages.
- The length of the short papers should be from 2 to 3 pages.
The extended abstracts should be structured into the following sections:
- Title which clearly indicates the research topics.
- Authors, names institute, country and email address . The first/presenting author is responsible for ensuring that all authors have agreed to be co-authors.
- Key words (3-5). Background, Aims, Materials and methods, (Results, Conclusions).
- Maximum length of the abstract is 5000 characters, about 700 words or approximately one A4 page. Figures and tables are allowed and with them the maximum length is two pages.
In the first step, the short abstracts should be minimum 300 words.
Presentations: Prepare the presentation by using the template
SIMS2020_virtual_presentation_template.potx
Reference lists are needed as separate word or text files. Content: Title and authors are followed by the reference list of the paper.
These
These
Instructions for the reference lists
should be used as a check list for citing and references both within the paper and in the separate reference file.All the submissions should be done at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simseurosim2020
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simseurosim2020
More information in
SIMS 2020 submission instructions
Venue
Virtual Conference:
All the sessions were held in a virtual conference organized as parallel tracks in Zoom. A group of students from the Process Engineering Guild ( ), University of Oulu, were helping the session chairs and co-chairs by taking care of the system operation as session hosts. Physical conference attendance was not possible since physical venues were not provided.
All the sessions were held in a virtual conference organized as parallel tracks in Zoom. A group of students from the Process Engineering Guild (
https://prosessikilta.fi/in-english/
https://prosessikilta.fi/in-english/
The presentations were submitted in advance. Since the authors were presening online, prerecording was not needed. The presentations were recorded during the sessions. Recorded presentations were kept visible for a limited time after the conference. For each presentation, a permission from the speaker(s) was asked to allow this visibility.
Information
The 61st SIMS conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 2020) was organized as a virtual conference. Originally, this conference was planned to be the first SIMS EUROSIM conference and organized in Oulu, Finland. The COVID-19 pandemic presented tremendous challenges for the global research community and for the entire world. The organizers were first postponing the deadlines and keeping the plan of organizing the conference in person. Since the pandemic was continuing strongly, the plans were changed: the SIMS 2020 was decided to organize as a virtual conference in September 2020 and the first SIMS EUROSIM conference in September 2021.
The conference program consisted of four keynote presentations, a SIMS history review, 70 regular presentations and a panel discussion. The proceedings include 68 full papers. The keynotes and the history review are included as abstracts. The call for papers resulted in 81 submissions prepared by 181 authors from eleven countries. The reviews of all submissions were done by four chairs, eleven IPC members and 37 international reviewers. Full papers were selected on the grounds of academic merit and relevance to the conference theme. Each submission had 2-4 reviews and the acceptance rate was 84% for the full papers published in the proceedings.
The SIMS 61 conference covered broad aspects of simulation, modeling and optimization in engineering applications, including many papers on energy, industry, circular economy, automation and methodologies. Panel discussions were organised on future challenges and possibilities for simulation. The discussion focused on five areas: simulation, energy systems, big data, environment and simulation toolboxes.
All the sessions were held in a virtual conference organized in Zoom. A group of students from the Process Engineering Guild, University of Oulu, were helping the session chairs and co-chairs by taking care of the system operation as session hosts.
Proceedings
The Proceedings has been published by Linköping University Press in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings No. 176 :
ISSN: 1650-3686, eISSN: 1650-3740, ISBN 978-91-7929-731-2.
ISSN: 1650-3686, eISSN: 1650-3740, ISBN 978-91-7929-731-2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp20176
Entire Proceedings: 68 papers, 485+26 pages, 61 194 KB,
Entire Proceedings: 68 papers, 485+26 pages, 61 194 KB,
Program
Keynote presentations
- Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020: Prof. Peter Fritzson, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden,
Abstract FritzsonCV Fritzson - Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020: Prof. Sebastien Engell, Process Dynamics and Operations Group, Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Department TU Dortmund, Germany
Abstract EngellCV Engell - Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020: Dr. Tuula Ruokonen, Director, Digital Services Solutions in Valmet Technologies Oy, Finland
Abstract RuokonenCV Ruokonen
Final program:
https://easychair.org/smart-program/SIMS2020/index.html
https://easychair.org/smart-program/SIMS2020/index.html
NOTE: The time zone is Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Accommodation
Virtual Conference:
No accommodation arrangements.
No accommodation arrangements.
Submissions
EasyChair will be used for submission of all papers and abstracts. Please follow the link .
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simseurosim2020
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simseurosim2020
Submission Types and Schedule
Five types of contributions can be offered to the SIMS 2020 conference:
Five types of contributions can be offered to the SIMS 2020 conference:
– Scientific papers must be written in English and will be accepted for presentation based on a peer review of the draft papers. The peer-reviewed conference articles will be published in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings Series http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/index.en.asp .
– Industrial papers can be submitted as scientific papers. Additionally, industrial papers written in English, Finnish or Swedish can be submitted as full papers to be reviewed for publication in the conference proceedings published by The Finnish Society of Automation. Interesting case reports are welcomed as well.
– Extended abstracts:The presentation at the conference can also be accepted on the basis of extended abstracts without a full paper. Extended abstracts will be published by The Finnish Society of Automation
– Short papers: Student/Discussion papers should follow the writing guidelines of scientific papers when applicable. The final guidelines will be available in review phase. Selected short papers will be published by Journal SNE, https://www.eurosim.info/journal-sne .
- Posters: Submissions are accompanied with short papers or extended abstracts.
Key dates
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Registration
Registration Fees:
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- The membership needs to be proven by a certificate.
- Full registration fees include admission to all the sessions of the conference and the conference proceedings.
- The student fees are only for Master and Bachelor Students and include admission to all the sessions. It allows one short paper. PhD students do not belong in this group.
- All prices are including VAT, and do not include the price of the hotel.
Contact
Questions about the submissions should be emailed to
Esko Juuso, SIMS 2020 Chair
Bernt Lie, President of SIMS, IPC Chair
Jari Ruuska, SIMS 2020 NOC Chair
SIMS 2020 Secretariat
Finnish Society of Automation / Finnish Automation Support Ltd
Tel. +358 50 400 6624
E-mail:
Finnish Society of Automation / Finnish Automation Support Ltd
Tel. +358 50 400 6624
E-mail:
SIMS, the Scandinavian Simulation Society, is a member of
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EUROSIM, Federation of European Simulation Societies
http://www.eurosim.info/
