Due to the safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, EAI SIMUtools 2020 will take place online in a live stream.

Non-authors and Co-Authors of already registered papers can register for access to the live stream completely free of charge.

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SIMUTools 2020 is the 12th edition of the annual International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. The conference focuses on a broad range of research challenges in the field of simulation, modelling and analysis, addressing current and future trends in simulation techniques, models, practices and software. The conference is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary collaborative research in these areas and across a wide spectrum of application domains.

Building on the success of the previous editions (2008-2019), this year’s edition will provide an exciting forum for interaction among academic and industry researchers together with practitioners from both the simulation community and the different user communities. The conference will be held in Guiyang, People’s Republic of China.

The conference invites submissions on the topics below in all application areas of simulation. Submissions in interdisciplinary areas are especially encouraged (e.g. Smart Cities, Health, Environment, Societal Challenges, Digital Humanities, Security, IT Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Business). The conference also invites posters and technical demonstrations that report on recent results, ongoing research or industrial case studies in the area of simulation.

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SIMUTools’ general topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Simulation methods: discrete event, parallel and distributed simulation, time synchronization, load balancing and migration, model partitioning, hybrid simulation, simulation-interoperation, multi-resolution and multi-scale simulation
-Simulation techniques: service-oriented, agent-based, web-based, component-based, symbiotic simulation
-Simulation software: environments, tools, libraries, and frameworks
-Simulation performance: GPU-based simulation, simulation in the cloud, scalability, performance analysis
-Modelling formalisms: DEVS, Petri Nets, process algebras, state charts, and others
-Simulation verification, validation, accreditation, and analysis: benchmark models, simulation-based verification, workflows, simulation experiment design, and optimization
-Simulation packages:widely used frameworks such as Modelica, ns-2/3, OPNET, Qualnet, OMNET++, Mininet, and other open-source software for modelling and simulation


PUBLICATION
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All registered papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

SIMUtools proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors are eligible for publication in:

Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) (IF=2.405)
Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF=2.390)
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing book series