The Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS/DEVS) 2012, part of SpringSim 2012, took place in Orlando, FL, from March 26 to March 28, 2012.

We would like to thank all authors, reviewers and organizers of TMS/DEVS 2012 for your support and participation.

At first we have to say thank you to all those who submitted a paper to the conference. We received 124 papers, a record number in the history of TMS/DEVS. a sufficient number of good and high quality submissions covering many of the topics of the conference and we are especially happy about the increasing share of papers on the broader theory of modeling and simulation.

At second we have to say thank you to all those who did the reviews: without your support such a conference could never be successful.

Last but not least we would like to express our gratitude to all those of you supporting the conference on site (registration desk, session chairs, presenters, audience, etc …) as well to those who did a great job on organizing rooms, proceedings, and the rest.

Some conference pictures can be found here

Some statistics: Papers submitted: 124 (TMS/DEVS, Mod4Sim, DEVS PhD Award)
Number of reviews: 319
Full Papers Accepted: 35
Work-in-Progress/Short papers: 19

Articles were submitted from 25 countries in all Continents:
Africa: Nigeria, Tunisia
America (South): Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
America (North): Canada, Mexico, United States
Asia: China, India, Iran, Israel, Korea (Republic of), Malaysia, Viet Nam
Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom
Oceania: Australia

You can find the complete conference program here

TMS/DEVS obtained the Best Symposium Award 2012.

The 3rd Bernard P. Zeigler award, sponsored by RT-Sync, has been given to

Moon Hwang, Dassault Systemes, Delmia Corp. “DEVS verification and XSY Software”.

Phil Hammonds, Northrop Grumman. “Commercializing DEVS Software, MS4 Me and MS4 DMe”.

Pictures from the Award Ceremony and dinner can be found here

• Best PhD Award: Qi Liu (Carleton University). “Algorithms for Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models”

• Runner-up: Khaldoon Al-Zoubi (Carleton University). “Enhanced Distributed Simulation Interoperability and Algorithms Using Web Services”

In 2012, the paper:

Adapting Model-Based Testing Techniques to DEVS Models Validation by Diego Ariel Hollmann, Maximiliano Cristiá and Claudia Frydman

received the best paper award.

• Andrea D'Ambrogio and Gregory Zacharewicz received the TMS/DEVS Leadership Award 2012.

Looking forward to see you at the International Conference on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS/DEVS 2013) (http://tms-devs.org) in San Diego, CA.