Topical Agenda

The following provides an overview of
the SimSummit initiavtive...

• Circumstance – Modeling and simulation technology is coherent and comprehensive as a discipline, ubiquitous in its presence in widely disparate application domains, and powerful in its influence for a wide variety of uses. At the same time, modeling and simulation is not generally recognized as a profession, industry, or economic market segment.
  
• Concept – Deliberate and self-conscious investment in cultivating the M&S community-of-practice is considered necessary and desirable in order to facilitate the emergence of M&S as a profession, industry, and market predicated on M&S technology in all its disparate manifestations. SimSummit is an occasional forum – kept relatively informal by mutual agreement - of organizations with broad interest in M&S technology, professional development, industry and market.
  
• Mission - The missionary objective of the SimSummit forum is no less than to significantly advance the evolution of the modeling and simulation profession, industry, and market.
  
• Goals – Particular goals of SimSummit are:
  • to establish a comprehensive international forum of the most significant organizations in Modeling and Simulation
  • to identify and maintain for the world-wide M&S community-of-practice a  common ‘canonical’ topical agenda upon which cooperative effort may be focused
  • to facilitate effective and constructive collaboration among member
    organizations and beyond by means of participative events, publications,
    collaborative workspaces, and shared information assets
  • to realize a truly intervisible, comprehensive, self-conscious, and effective
    modeling and simulation community-of-practice.
    
• Benefits - The special virtue of the SimSummit forum is to educe the very considerable degree of common interest that exists even among relatively disparate organizations from Government, Industry, Professional Societies and Academia, involved in M&S of many styles for a wide variety of purposes in apparently exclusive application domains, and to derive therefrom the greatest possible collective benefit for the international M&S community-of-practice.