The rate at which Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) become complex is outpacing our
ability to comprehend them. Evidence of this can be seen in the accidents of
recent years. This is not only due to the fact that CPSs are complex. Their
development process is also complex. While systems comprised of many
interacting, heterogeneous, components, are fundamental to our society, the
complexity in their development process should also be managed.
For instance:
- Intellectual property protection poses challenges in producing holistic
simulation of systems comprised of third party components; and
- Distributed development demands innovative collaborative modelling techniques.

Modeling and Simulation (M\&S) techniques have proven to mitigate these issues,
but they face new challenges as more is being demanded from these techniques.
Some example questions include:
- Can the models be used for monitoring the system across whole of its lifecycle,
as in Digital Twins?
- How much can be simulations be relied upon, as in Simulation Governance?

This track focuses on new developments in Modelling and Simulation (M&S) that
enable us to manage the complexity of CPS and their development,
and addressing the above questions.

# Partial List of Topics of Interest

* Applied Theory of Modeling and (Co-)Simulation of CPS
* Advanced and Visual Analytics for (Co-)Simulation of CPS
* (Co-)Simulation in Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
* (Co-)Simulation Verification and Validation
* Modeling and (Co-)Simulation as a Service
* Correct and IP Safe (Co-)Simulation Cyber-Physical Systems
* (Co-)Simulation Based Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems
* (Co-)Simulation Based Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems

# Submission Guidelines and Proceedings

Papers should be submitted to
https://www.softconf.com/sim/ANNSIM21/track/Cyber_Physical_Systems__CPS_
following the guidelines described in
https://scs.org/annsim/

Each paper will have a minimum of 3 reviews. All accepted research papers will
be included in the conference proceedings, may be archived in the ACM Digital
Library, IEEE Xplore (approval pending), and will be indexed in DBLP Computer
Science Bibliography and SCOPUS. Best papers will also be considered for a
special issue of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and
Simulation International.

# Chairs

- Umut Durak, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
- Cláudio Gomes, Aarhus University, Denmark

# Program Committee

- Akshay Rajhans (MathWorks)
- Alberto Falcone (University of Calabria)
- Andrea D'Ambrogio (Università di Roma)
- Bart Meyers (Flanders Make Research institute)
- Bentley James Oakes (University of Antwerp)
- Casper Thule (Aarhus University)
- Ferhat Erata (Yale University)
- Franz Holzinger (Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH)
- Ken Vanherpen (University of Antwerp)
- Marco Di Natale (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
- Martin Benedikt (Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH)
- Moharram Challenger (University of Antwerp)
- Paolo Bocciarelli (Università degli Studi di Roma)
- Paul De Meulenaere (University of Antwerp)
- Rhys Goldstein (Autodesk)
- Stelios Basagiannis (Raytheon Technologies Research Center)
- Okan Topcu (Middle East Technical University)
- Xiaobo Liu-Henke (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences)
- Deniz Cetinkaya (Bournemouth University)
- Bert Van Acker (University of Antwerp)
- Yon Vanommeslaeghe (University of Antwerp)
- Milos Cvetkovic (TU Delft)