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- “Activities” Definition – <Program
Name “Activities” are
efforts that persist over time, that are actively coordinated
by Program
Name Executive Committee,
are participated in principally by the members of the Program
Name forum , and that
have as their expected end-state some work product or consequential
result.
Activities
may be immediate single-cycle transactions or they may have
the quality of a time-distributed program of effort, and
may be accompanied
by the usual accoutrements of a ‘[program plan’,
e.g.: Statement of need, Statement of intention, strategic
guidance,
list of subordinate activities, schedule, time-phased plan,
identification of resources, management plans, risk management
plan, and product
specification). For each of the activities indicated below,
a brief description of the activity is provided and documentation
relevant
to their conception, conduct and results are available via
associated hot links.>
- Activity
1 – <“Topical Agenda”. From its inception
in the summer of 2002, the SimSummit round table has been
sensitive to the identification of an overarching or ‘meta’ topical-agenda
for the modeling and simulation (M&S) community-of-practice.
SimSummit participants recognized at once that establishing
such a synoptic, consensus topical agenda could serve to
provide a
common basis of communication and action throughout the world-wide
M&S community, and, consequently, to facilitate the systematic
evolution of M&S technology, profession, industry, and
marketplace. Appreciating the seminal value of such an explicit
topical field-map
as a basis of shared appreciation and commitment to common
topics across the agendas of otherwise disparate constituencies,
Program
Name identified in its
earliest data product topical loci that already have influenced
coordination and collaboration across
the broad
sectors of the M&S community. Particular effect has been
felt in the following areas: a) promulgation of an M&S
Code of Ethics, b) collaboration among professional societies,
c)
support for professional certification and industrial classification,
and d) systematic investment in body-of-knowledge specification
and curricular development guidance. Therefore, in view of
the significance of M&S topics of common interest, and
the special opportunity of SimSummit to contribute to M&S
evolution by continuing to clarify the synoptic meta-topical
field of the
evolving M&S community of practice, this activity was
initiated. For more information, see <hot
link Meeting December 04> and
Topical Agenda>
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