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“Activities” Definition – SimSummit “Activities” are
efforts that persist over time, that are actively coordinated
by SimSummit Executive Committee, are participated in principally
by the members of the SimSummit 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.
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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,
SimSummit 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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