SCSC Track: Modeling and Simulation for Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS'14)
General Chair
Dr. Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, USA
Honorary Program Chair
Dr. Andreas Tolk, SimIS Inc., Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Heterogeneous systems are the norm today. A system deployed in a netcentric environment eventually becomes a part of a system of systems (SoS). This makes design, analysis and testing for the system-at-hand a complex endeavor in itself. Testing in isolation is not the same as a real-system operation and we need advanced M&S frameworks to facilitate SoS design. The subject of emergent behavior and M&S of emergent behaviors takes the center-stage in such systems as it is unknown how a particular system responds in the face of emergent behavior arising out of interactions with other systems. Intelligent behavior is also defined as an emergent property in some complex systems. Consequently, systems that respond and adapt to such behaviors may be called intelligent systems as well. This track aims to focus on M&S of these aspects of complex SoS engineering and aims to bring researchers, developers and industry practitioners working in the areas of complex, adaptive and autonomous SoS engineering that may incorporate human as an integral part of SoS operations.
The conference will focus on (but is not limited to) the following topical areas:
- Theory for adaptive and autonomous systems
- Intelligence-based systems
- Computational intelligence and cognitive systems
- Human-in-the-loop systems
- M&S Frameworks for intelligent behavior
- Methodologies, tools, and architectures for adaptive control systems
- Knowledge engineering, generation and management in IAAS
- Weak and Strong emergent behavior
- Emergent engineering
- Testing and Evaluation processes
- Verification and validation frameworks
- Practices and Lessons Learned
- Complex adaptive systems
- Self-organization and collaborative behavior in IAAS
- Applications to robotics, unmanned vehicles systems, swarm technology, semantic web technology, and multi-agent systems
- Netcentric IAAS
- Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) environments
- Simulator design for IAAS systems
- Modeling tools for IAAS design
Focus should be on practical application of the described concepts including case studies, methodologies, inventions, technologies, and tools. Support online material is enabled.
For paper submission to MSIAAS please submit your complete papers electronically to http://www.softconf.com/scs/SCSC14/