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)
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

In 2011 the paper:

I-DEVS: Imprecise Real-Time and Embedded DEVS Modeling by Mohammad Moallemi and Gabriel Wainer

received the best paper award.

The 2nd Bernhard P. Zeigler award, sponsored by RT-Sync, has been given to

Mamadou Kaba Traore, Ph.D. at Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand, France and Ufuoma Bright lghoroje at African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria for their work on DEVS modeling language and graphical editor.

Alexandre Muzy, Ph.D. at CNRS, France for his work on Activity-based modeling and simulation for automated tracking and synthesis of components.

News published by RT-Sync

Pictures from the Award Ceremony and dinner can be found here

Looking forward to see you at TMS/DEVS 2012 (http://tms-devs.org).