Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoSim 2026

The 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2026) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL community, are encouraged to participate. Also, this workshop is of interest to everyone who works with spatial data. The simulation methods that will be presented and discussed in the workshop should find a wide application across the community by producing benchmark datasets that can be parameterized and scaled. Simulated data sets will be made available to the community via the website.

The workshop seeks high-quality full (up to 10 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers that will be peer-reviewed. Following the main conference, full papers are limited to 10 pages (excluding references), with up to 2 additional pages after the references to be used for appendices. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library.

GeoSim 2026 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial simulation including, but not limited to:

• Applications for Spatial Simulation
• Agent Based Models for Spatial Simulation
• Multi-Agent Based Spatial Simulation
• Big Spatial Data Simulation
• Disease Spread Simulation
• Spatial Data/Trajectory Generators
• Road Traffic Simulation
• Human Mobility Simulation
• Environmental Simulation
• GIS using Spatial Simulation
• Interactive Spatial Simulation
• Spatial Simulation Parallelization and Distribution
• Geo-Social Simulation and Data Generators
• Social Unrest and Riot Prediction using Simulation
• Spatial Analysis based on Simulation
• Behavioral Simulation
• Verifying and Validating Spatial Simulations
• Urban Simulation
• Digital Twin Simulation
• Synthetic Population Simulation

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 15, 2026

Notification

September 15, 2026

Workshop date

November 3, 2026

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geosim2026

Workshop website

https://geosim.org/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoSim are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact geosim2026@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoSim 2026.

Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoSim 2025

The 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2025) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL community, are encouraged to participate. Also, this workshop is of interest to everyone who works with spatial data. The simulation methods that will be presented and discussed in the workshop should find a wide application across the community by producing benchmark datasets that can be parameterized and scaled. Simulated data sets will be made available to the community via the website.

The workshop seeks high-quality full (8-10 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers that will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library.

GeoSim 2025 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial simulation including, but not limited to:

• Applications for Spatial Simulation
• Agent Based Models for Spatial Simulation
• Multi-Agent Based Spatial Simulation
• Big Spatial Data Simulation
• Disease Spread Simulation
• Spatial Data/Trajectory Generators
• Road Traffic Simulation
• Environmental Simulation
• GIS using Spatial Simulation
• Interactive Spatial Simulation
• Spatial Simulation Parallelization and Distribution
• Geo-Social Simulation and Data Generators
• Social Unrest and Riot Prediction using Simulation
• Spatial Analysis based on Simulation
• Behavioral Simulation
• Verifying and Validating Spatial Simulations
• Urban Simulation
• Digital Twin Simulation
• Synthetic Population Simulation

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 15, 2025

Notification

September 15, 2025

Workshop date

November 3, 2025

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geosim2025

Workshop website

https://geosim.org/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoSim are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact me or geosim2025@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoSim 2025.

Call for Papers: ANNSIM 2022

2022 ANNUAL MODELING AND SIMULATION CONFERENCE

JULY 18 - 21, 2022
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, IN-PERSON CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS

ANNSIM 2022 is the flagship conference of SCS to showcase state-of-the-art developments in Modeling & Simulation (M&S). We invite original contributions to the theory, methodology, and practice of M&S in all scientific and engineering disciplines. The conference is organized around a set of technical tracks that includes:

• AI and Simulation (AIS)
• Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS)
• Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
• High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPC)
• Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents (HSAA)
• M&S Based Systems Engineering (MSBSE)
• M&S for Smart Energy Systems (MSSES)
• M&S in Cyber Security (MSCS)
• M&S in Medicine (MSM)
• Theory and Foundations for Modeling and Simulation (TMS)
• Simulation of Architectural and Urban Design (SimAUD)
• Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems / Communications and Network Simulation (SPECTS/CNS)
• Emerging Topic – Supply Chain Modeling (ET-SCM)

ANNSIM 2022 will be held in the beautiful city of San Diego, CA (USA), at the Sand Diego State University. The conference includes keynote speeches presented by technology and industry leaders, technical sessions, as well as professional development tutorials. Scientists, engineers, managers, educators, and business professionals who develop or use M&S methodologies and tools are invited to participate and present original contributions.
All accepted research papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore and will be indexed in the most popular indexing engines (Scopus, DBLP, etc.). Best papers will also be considered for a special issue of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.
Besides technical papers, submissions of the following types of contributions and/or proposals are also welcome:

• Tutorials (max 2 hours). A tutorial proposal includes a tutorial description (max 2 pages) to be submitted to the tutorial track. In addition, a tutorial may submit a full paper to one of the technical tracks. The full paper will go through a review process and be included in the conference proceedings if accepted.
• Posters and live demonstrations to be given during the conference, submitted through an extended abstract (max 2 pages)

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: March 28, 2022 (Extended)
• Tutorial Proposal Submission: March 28, 2022 (Extended)
• Author Notification: May 9, 2022 (Extended)
• Camera-Ready Paper Submission: May 30, 2022 (Extended)

AI and Simulation (AIS)

Chair: Joon-Seok Kim, Co-Chair: Andreas Züfle

Modeling and simulation (M&S) have advanced our understanding of complex systems, have improved our ability to predict future states, and have been leveraged to prescribe (near-)optimal interventions and policies in many different application areas. In the enterprise of exploring such complex systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have the potential to improve our ability to optimize simulation parameters, to train agent/actor behavior throughout simulations, and to evolve the simulation environment based on observations. The vision of this track is to push the boundaries of human understanding by marrying M&S with AI/ML.

This AI and Simulation (AIS) track is a dedicated forum to exchange our views, ideas, research methods, and applications to resolve the scientific questions of what and how cutting-edge AI/ML methods can synergize M&S and vice versa. This track explorers M&S practices to which AI/ML methods are applied such as knowledge reasoning, computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.

In this track, we are seeking full papers (up to 12 pages) on original contributions across all modes of M&S leveraging AI/ML and interdisciplinary contributions that advance the state of the arts in AI/ML. This track will use the traditional format of having oral paper presentations. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Advancing validation and verification (V&V) using AI and ML
• AI and ML methods for training and evolving agents
• Best practices of convergence of AI and Simulation
• Empirical comparisons of state-of-the-art AI and ML methods in M&S
• Facilitating experimentation using AI and ML
• M&S to improve AI and ML solutions
• Simulation modeling tools and methods based on AI and ML
• Simulation optimization using AI and ML
• Visionary methodology of AI and ML in simulation

Please visit the official web page (https://scs.org/annsim/) for full details on the conference and the submission procedure.
If you have any question about the AI and Simulation (AIS) track, please contact me.

Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2021) CFP

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, July 19-22, 2021

The Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) is a new annual conference of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) after merging SpringSim and SummerSim into a single conference starting in 2021. Built on strengths of SpringSim and SummerSim, ANNSIM 2021 is the flagship conference of SCS to cover state-of-the-art developments in Modeling & Simulation (M&S). We invite original contributions to the theory and practice of modeling and simulation in all scientific and engineering disciplines. The conference is organized around a set of technical tracks that include:

• AI and Simulation (AIS)
• Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS)
• Communications and Network Simulation (CNS)
• Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
• Emerging Topic – Aspects of Pandemic Modeling (ET-APM)
• High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPC)
• Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents (HSAA)
• M&S based Systems Engineering (MSBSE)
• M&S for Smart Energy Systems (MSSES)
• M&S in Cyber Security (MSCS)
• M&S in Medicine (MSM)
• Theory and Foundations for Modeling and Simulation (TMS)

 ANNSIM 2021 will be a hybrid conference accommodating both physical and virtual participations. The physical venue of the conference will be in George Mason University (Fairfax Campus), Fairfax, VA, USA. The conference includes keynote speeches presented by technology and industry leaders, technical sessions, as well as professional development tutorials. Scientists, engineers, managers, educators, and business professionals who develop or use M&S methodologies and tools are invited to participate and present original contributions. All accepted research papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore (approval pending), and will be indexed in DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and SCOPUS. Best papers will also be considered for a special issue of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Besides technical papers, submissions of the following types of contributions and/or proposals are also welcome:

• Tutorials (max 2 hours). A tutorial proposal includes a tutorial description (max 2 pages) to be submitted to the tutorial track. In addition, a tutorial may submit a full paper to one of the technical tracks. The full paper will go through a review process and be included in the conference proceedings if accepted.
• Extended abstracts (max 2 pages)
• Live demonstrations to be given during the conference

Please visit https://scs.org/annsim/ for full details on conference submission procedure.

Important Dates:

• Tutorial proposal submission: January 22, 2021
• Paper submission: March 1, 2021
• Author notification: April 30, 2021
• Camera-ready paper submission: May 17, 2021
• Conference dates: July 19-22, 2021

AI and Simulation (AIS) Track

Chair: Joon-Seok Kim, George Mason University, USA

Co-chair: Andreas Züfle, George Mason University, USA

Aims and Scope

Modeling and simulation (M&S) have advanced our understanding of complex systems and our controls over them in different areas. In the enterprise of exploring such complex systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are a transformative technology shaping our knowledge and facilitating navigation in unconquered, unexplored, unknown frontiers. To push the boundaries of human understanding, marrying M&S with AI and ML is ineluctable and visionary. Leveraging the best of our knowledge of AI and ML allows us to accelerate, enhance, and delineate M&S.

This AI and Simulation (AIS) track is a dedicated forum to exchange our views, ideas, research methods, and applications to resolve the scientific question of what and how cutting-edge AI and ML methods can synergize M&S and vice versa. This track explorers M&S practices to which AI and ML methods are applied such as knowledge reasoning, computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.

In this track, we are seeking full papers (up to 12 pages) on original contributions across all modes of M&S leveraging AI and ML and interdisciplinary contributions that advance the state of the arts in AI and ML. This track will use the traditional format of having oral paper presentations. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Advancing validation and verification (V&V) using AI and ML
• AI and ML methods for training and evolving agents
• Best practices of convergence of AI and Simulation
• Empirical comparisons of state-of-the-art AI and ML methods in M&S
• Facilitating experimentation using AI and ML
• M&S to improve AI and ML solutions
• Simulation modeling tools and methods based on AI and ML
• Simulation optimization using AI and ML
• Visionary methodology of AI and ML in simulation

If you have any questions regarding the AI and Simulation (AIS) track, please feel free to contact me.