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50 Summers of Computer Simulation

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We are having seasons: summers and winters of many scientific disciplines. Many fields are experiencing hype cycles. Each one of us would remember “AI winter” from the history of Artificial Intelligence. Inflated expectations are followed by disappointment and eventually funding cuts. Renewing the interest takes then years if not decades. The Society for Modeling and Simulation International has achieved outstanding success in the last 50 years to keep Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) an important event through many seasons of simulation, some of which were more remarkable than others. This chapter summarizes the panel discussion/contributions of the SCSC 2018 about the seasons in computer simulation and the ways to achieve and further prolong summers of computer simulation.

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    Michigan Model for Diabetes. Online: http://diabetesresearch.med.umich.edu/Core_MCDTR_Methods_DM_MMD.php.

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    The Reference Model for Disease Progression. Online: https://simtk.org/projects/therefmodel/.

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    SBML.org The Systems Biology Markup Language: http://sbml.org/Main_Page.

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    26. IMHE——Global Burden of Disease (GBD) online: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd.

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    The software-artifact infrastructure repository. http://sir.unl.edu/portal/index.php.

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    https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-climate-change-plastic-extinction-open-letter-bradley-cooper-juliette-binoche-a8522411.html.

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    http://fastfuturepublishing.com/main/about/our-team/.

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    https://youtu.be/tArqczVLImc.

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Authors would like to thank Gabriel Wainer (Carleton University) for his contribution to the panel discussion. The Establishment and Beyond section is based on his talk.

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  1. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Brunswick, Germany

    Umut Durak

  2. Università Di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Andrea D’Ambrogio

  3. The MITRE Corporation, Hampton, VA, 23666, USA

    Andreas Tolk

  4. ODU VMASC, Suffolk, VA, 23435, USA

    Saikou Diallo

  5. IMT Mines Alès, 30319, Alès Cedex, France

    Gregory Zacharewicz

  6. Complutense University of Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Risco-Martín

  7. Independent Researcher, Austin, TX, USA

    Jacob Barhak

  8. California State University, Chico, CA, 95929, USA

    Ralph Coolidge Huntsinger

  9. Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21210, USA

    M. S. Raunak

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Durak, U. et al. (2019). 50 Summers of Computer Simulation. In: Sokolowski, J., Durak, U., Mustafee, N., Tolk, A. (eds) Summer of Simulation. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17164-3_1

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