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Conference Papers
- Call for Abstracts
- Abstracts Submission and List of Abstracts Received
- Abstracts Submission
- Papers Submission
- Best Papers Awards
- Presentation Template and Speakers Guide
- Key Dates
Papers are available on the SIAA's Library - Members only until 30 December 2009
Standards Body of Knowledge Prize
For information and submission criteria and details, see the SIAA Standards web-site.
Message from the Papers Convenor
In 2009 we are again using the START papers submission process and also continuing to use:
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Sectors and Specialisations to allow papers with common elements to be grouped together, providing a relevant conference experience for delegates
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A Posters category
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Publication of all Abstracts in the Program Handbook as a valuable reference point for conference participants
Continuing with the use of an ISBN registration for the Proceedings, and providing open access to all papers on the SIAA's web-site, six months after the Conference. This enables broader access to the papers as a valuable resource for the world-wide simulation community
We are also asking authors to nominate if their paper and presentation will appeal more to Technologists, or Users - to assist delegates choose presentations to meet their needs.
We are especially interested in papers that unite theory and practice, providing the industry and its researchers and practitioners with a rich mixture of concepts, ideas and practical applications. Case studies describing experiences and lessons learned are particularly welcome.
There are substantial Best Paper awards to reward excellence. Students are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts as an opportunity to share their emergent ideas and research goals with a large and well-qualified audience.
Dr Elyssebeth Leigh
Papers Convenor
Call for Abstracts
Download the SimTecT 2009 Call For Abstracts / Papers Brochure (541 kb PDF)
Abstracts have closed.
Simulation – Simulation - Concepts, Capability and Technology
Closing Dates
- Abstracts for Non-Refereed papers: 15 December 2008
Focus Areas
SimTecT 2009 was seeking papers from all areas related to simulation, training and modelling — particularly indicating the actual or potential means by which simulation can be used under the theme ‘Simulation - Concepts, Capability and Technology’.
Case studies describing experiences and lessons learned are particularly welcome. Student participation is actively encouraged. The program, keynotes and workshops have been structured to focus on seven main areas:
Defence
- Concepts
- Future Joint Training: Single Service & JOC Needs and Dependencies
- Support to Command of Operations: Needs and Concepts Command & Control
- Capability / Technology
- Ab-initio Flight Training (see the Training Specialisation below)
- Simulation Support for Logistics - The State of the Art
- Measuring and Validating the Benefits / ROI of Simulation
- Network-Centric Warfare
- Command & Control
Transportation
- Aerospace
- Civil Aviation
- Road
- Rail
- Maritime
- Logistics / Distribution
Emergency Management
- National Security
- Concepts
- The Future of Emergency Response Planning and Preparation
- Capability / Technology
- Support to Multi-Agency Collaboration (including SIG plans for a demo)
Heavy Industry
- Mining
- Construction
- Capability / Technology
- Measuring and Validating the Benefits / ROI of Simulation
Manufacturing
- Design
- Manufacturing planning and process optimisation
Education
- Secondary, Tertiary, VET
- Social and Organisational Learning
Health
- Components relating to the above sectors (note - there is also a SimTecT Healthcare in September)
Specialisations
Within these Focus Areas, Papers on the following life-cycle oriented specialisations are encouraged:
Policy and Management, including:
- Validation, Verification and Accreditation
- Data management
- Financing of Training Systems (including leasing, Private Finance Initiatives etc)
- Cost benefit analysis of Simulation Systems
- Policy issues
- Acquisition strategies
- History of simulators
- Standards
- Business modelling
Analysis & Experimentation, including
- Simulation support to acquisition
- Experimentation
- Reliability, availability, maintainability modelling
- Lifecycle support modelling
Technologies, including:
- Development Methodologies
- Knowledge elicitation and capture
- Experiment design
- Performance monitoring
- Systems engineering
- Metrics
- Simulator fidelity analysis
- Optimisation
- Algorithms
- Implementation Technologies
- Multimedia
- Computer / Web Based Training
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Visual Systems
- Databases
- Motion Bases and Control Loading
- Simulator sickness
- Simulation Tools
- Constructive Simulation
- Low Cost Simulation
- Behavioural modelling
- Computer Generated Forces
- Intelligent agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Semi-Automated Forces
- Synthetic Environments
- Design and Development
- After Action Review
- Synthetic Environments Methodology
- Scenario Management
- Synthetic environment based capability development
- Virtual Reality
- Distributed Simulation
- Distributed study environments
- Networks
- Simulation interoperability
- Data interchange
- High Level Architecture
- Distributed Interactive Simulation
- Simulation and Federation Object Models
Training, including:
- Ab-initio - fixed and rotary wing (cf AIR 9000 Phase 7 and AIR 5428)
- The contracting decision: Insource, Outsource or hybrid?
- The financing decision: Traditional contracting for buy and sustain, Private Financed or hybrid?
- Developments in Flight Screening and Ground based training
- Applications of simulation for ab-initio to advanced flight training
- Learning management systems and operations management software
- Global trends in Military ab-initio flight training (eg UK MFTS, Singapore, Canadian NFTC)
- Training analysis, design, execution and evaluation
- Learning theory
- Embedded training
- Technology based training
- Distance / distributed learning
- Team training
- Training transfer
- Human factors
- Performance assessment
- Mission rehearsal
Operations
- Planning and decision support
- Command and Control
- Joint operations
Serious Games
- Single and Multi-player
- Instructional Design
- Business models
- Formats, platforms and applications
- Evaluation and assessment
Presentation Formats
SimTecT offers the opportunity for Poster, or Conference Presentations.Conference Presentation
Presenters will have about 20 minutes to go through their key points, and are encouraged to make the period as interactive as possible. The total time allocated for each paper (including moving in / out, introduction, presentation, Q&A) is 30 minutes.
Acceptance of the paper shall be accompanied by details of speaker requirements.
Audio-visual aids will be provided for PowerPoint 2000 for Windows2003 (or equivalent). Computers with CDs shall be provided. Presenters may use their own laptops by special arrangement. While other presentation media will only be permitted with prior arrangement, you are encouraged to engage your audience as much as possible. An optional PowerPoint template is available from the web-site.
Poster
Authors may elect, or the Review Committee may select presentations to be given in Poster format.
An area in the Exhibition hall will be set aside for display of posters, or optionally, a computer display (using the author's equipment, and with special prior arrangement with the Conference Organisers).
The author will be expected to be available at their Poster position at the designated time(s) to present their work.
Conference Proceedings
Accepted papers which have a registered presenter will be published in the Conference Proceedings, if the presenter registers for the conference by the required date. The Organising Committee is encouraging the simulation community to read and cite the papers by making them freely available on the SIAA's web-site (six months after the Conference), and by allocating ISBN numbers to both the hardcopy and CD Proceedings.
Author Registration
Authors must register for the Conference (by 15 April 2009), in order for them to present, and for their papers to be included in the Conference Proceedings.
Key Dates
| Date | Milestone | 15 December 2008 | Last date for abstract submission (non-refereed papers) |
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| 22 December 2008 | Non-refereed Abstracts accepted/rejected (the intention is for abstracts to be accepted/rejected as they are submitted) |
| 16 January 2009 | Last date for refereed papers submission |
| 2 March 2009 | Reviews back to refereed papers |
| 15 April 2009 | Last date for all paper submissions |
| 15 April 2009 | Last date for presenters to register for Conference |
| 15 June 2009 | Presenters/Session Chair's Briefing |
| 15-18 June 2009 | SimTecT 2009 Conference |
Note: Authors should allow sufficient time in their schedule for having their paper undergo their organisation’s necessary internal technical and legal reviews.
Accepted Abstracts
You can view a list of accepted abstracts here.
Abstract Submission
The START submission web-site is closed - please submit any changes by email to .
The following information is required to be submitted:
- TITLE OF PAPER
- not to exceed ten words in length - ABSTRACT
- provide an overview/summary of the proposed paper between 200-300 words in length (refereed papers: 350-500 words). - AUTHOR/S
- given name first, surname last (capitalized) - PRESENTER
- given name first, surname last (capitalized)
- presenter MUST register to attend SimTecT 2009 by 13 April 2008 for papers to be published and presented - PRINCIPAL AUTHOR or CONTACT ADDRESS
- full postal address, incl postcode/zip & country
- full telephone number (incl country & area code)
- email address (all correspondence sent via email) - Suggested Focus Area
- Suggested Specialisation
- Suggested Stream
- refereed, student - Requested Format
- presentation, poster - Suggested Keywords / Topics
- These will be used to assist in categorisation and programming
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Refereed Papers
SimTecT 2009 includes a Refereed Papers stream. Authors will be able to submit papers for formal review in accordance with research council guidelines.
This facility is intended for academics and others to whom publishing credits are important. It is not required in order to be eligible for the Best Paper Awards.
The Paper Review Committee generously agreed to undertake this formal review.
Best Paper Awards
The Technical Committee makes two types of awards, Best Paper and Best Student Papers. The recipient of the Best Paper award will be eligible to attend and present their paper at the 2009 I/ITSEC Conference in Orlando, USA with a substantial contribution of up to A$5,000 towards travel and accommodation from the SIAA.
To encourage student participation, the SIAA Executive has agreed to make available a number of Best Student Paper awards. The authors of the Best Student Paper will attend SimTecT 2009, or undertake other educational activities, to a value of up to A$2,000 each, courtesy of the SIAA.
See the News page for the winners of the SimTecT 2004 Best Papers Awards.
Criteria for the Best Paper awards, and the selection process, have been defined so as to be clear and transparent. Download the details.
Note that papers do not have to be refereed in order to be eligible for the Best Paper Awards.
Papers
Papers must be unclassified and must include appropriate copyright, company and/or government clearance. Papers previously presented or published as well as marketing papers will not be accepted.
Paper Submission
Authors whose Abstracts have been accepted, will be advised by email for the URL for submitting their Papers.
If there is a problem with this process, please contact the Papers Co-ordinator, .
Paper Submission Requirements
Papers must conform to the template which is available for download.
Papers citing references should use the format which is available for download.
The START submission web-site is closed - please submit any changes to Papers or Abstracts by email to .
Presentations
Paper presentation slots will be a total of 30 minutes duration, consisting of:
- 20 minute presentation
- 5 minute question period
- 5 minute Move in / Introduction / Move out period.
Audio visual aids will be provided for PowerPoint 2000 for Windows2003 (or equivalent). Computers with CDs will be provided. Presenters may use their own laptops by special arrangement. No other presentation medium shall be permitted without prior arrangement.
A draft of the program for SimTecT 2009 will be released on the SIAA website one month prior to the Conference. The Final Program will be released one week prior.
Templates and Speakers Guide
Papers must conform to the template which is available for download.
To assist with the preparation and delivery of the presentation, you may download a Presentation Template (note - this is not mandatory!) and a Speakers Guide.
Committee and Reviewers Login
Committee Members and Reviewers may login into START.
Further Information
For further information about the submission of papers, please contact the Papers Co-Ordinator, .
Previous Papers
You can view papers from previous SimTecT Conferences in the SIAA's Library.
