MODSIM WORLD Canada


 

Conference Tracks

MODSIM WorldLogoStreams are planned for each of the following areas:


In addition, MODSIM features a cross-cutting session focusing on the impact of emerging technologies such as serious games, virtual worlds, and distributed learning on ROI, productivity, and collaboration.

Defense and Homeland Security

The 21st Century global environment demands that military decision makers take into account the political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information (PMESII) environments when weighing the pros and cons of a particular course of action. Simulations can help inform leaders at all levels of the impact that a particular course of action may have upon this complex set of interrelated elements. This MODSIM track will address the impact that modeling and simulation has in helping decision makers understand and plan in their operational environment.

Homeland security is a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within our respective countries, reduce our vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur. This quote from the US National Strategy for Homeland Security summarily sets the scene for the Homeland Security (HLS) and Homeland Defense (HLD) track of MODSIM WORLD Montreal 2010. However, there is a growing understanding that HLS/HLD is really a multinational endeavor and this track will treat it as such. During this track there will be multiple sessions regarding M&S aspects of the following areas:

  • Emergency operations and emergency center site management
  • Public facilities and business continuity
  • Protection of critical infrastructure
  • Resiliency and disaster recovery
  • Hazardous materials identification and handling communications and media
  • Risk assessment
  • Emergency and disaster contingency planning
  • Public awareness and education
  • Evacuation policy and planning
  • Medical and trauma planning
  • Discussion of strategies for managing incidents
  • Pandemic and disease planning
  • Community recovery exercise and training programs
  • Emergency management training for first responders, managers and senior decision-makers.


Aeronautics, Engineering, and Transportation

Aeronautics, Engineering, and Transportation have been at the leading edge of modeling and simulation (M&S) field since its inception. This track offers a forum for information exchange and for individuals and groups concerned with the development and application of modeling and simulation theory, tools, and techniques to fields relevant to this stream. Topics of interest includes:

  • Decision-making support
  • Design processes
  • System Integration
  • Testing
  • Training
  • Logistics
  • System development



Government, Research, Education and Environment

This track focuses on the use of M&S technologies in both government and academia.

Modeling in government takes place in a different context from that of industry. Government models are usually intended to support institutional responsibilities, such as health, regulation, intervention, or security. They affect individual well-being, economic competitiveness, environmental protection, and how a society is governed. Consequently, in addition to technical quality, such models and the process by which they are developed must be open, transparent, equitable, and legally defendable. Although such requirements are external to modeling, they affect the nature of government-based modeling in important ways.

In terms of scale, models used by governments are highly diverse. They span an enormous range from forecasting sweeping socioeconomic trends to predicting the growth rate of a pathogen. In terms of domain, government models range across much of the physical, biological, and socioeconomic environments that affect a society. In terms of application, such models address problems ranging from simple (e.g., departmental work flow), through complicated (e.g., urban traffic patterns), to complex (e.g., farm-to-fork food safety).

This track also focuses on the development and preparation of modeling and simulation professionals and specialists, and issues related to the development and enhancement of the 21st Century modeling and simulation workforce. This includes high school, community college, undergraduate, and graduate level education; modeling and simulation as content and methodology; professional development; and continuing education. Education and training are broadly defined to include instruction, instructional-related issues and techniques, curricula, standards, certification, accreditation, and resources.



Health, Medical, and Biotech

This track is focused on the exchange of ideas and information, fostering research, and in maximizing the application and contributions of modeling and simulation to health, medicine and biotechnology (broadly construed to include all medical specialties, nursing, allied health paramedical personnel, and industry) to:

  • Promote the use of M&S in the Health care sector
  • Expend the role of M&S research and technology in the education and training of health care professionals
  • Increase the effectiveness of medical systems
  • improve patient care.

This track is also interested is fostering collaboration that promotes the development of educational methods, practitioner assessment, patient safety, and that promotes better patient care and improved patient outcome.

Other topics of interest include the development and advancement of modeling and simulation in:

  • teaching, training, & clinical use,
  • research & scholarship,
  • the development of teaching strategies,
  • the integration of technology, &
  • evaluation & assessment.

Our cross cutting themes

Artificial Intelligence, Emerging technologies, methodologies and paradigms.

What are the emerging technologies, methodologies and paradigms that can be applied to the existing environment in order to support a uniform organizational approach to modelling and simulation?

  • Future impacts of technology
  • Artificial Intelligence, smart bots,
  • Serious games, virtual worlds, immersive learning and distributed learning technologies to implement innovative solutions
  • Learning and collaboration tools

Distance learning and other education methodologies and technologies

What role does distance learning and other education methodologies and technologies play in supporting the adoption of new processes?

  • A reflection upon the role of distance learning and education when you model becomes law, policy, product etc.
  • A review of how learning technology, national infrastructure, and an a clear vision are required to sustain a knowledge economy