SISO Awards Progam

SISO's Awards Program is detailed in Administrative Document SISO-ADM-016-2011, SISO Awards Program.

SISO awards include

  • SISO Outstanding Contribution to M&S Award.  This award recognizes extraordinary contribution to the international M&S community. There may be more than one of these awards presented in one SISO year. 
  • SISO Technical Merit Award (TMA). This award recognizes technical excellence in the development of standards. Only SISO members are eligible for nomination. This can also be given as a team award. 
  • SISO Meritorious Service Award (MSA). This award recognizes outstanding service and achievements in the management and support of SISO. 
  • SISO Letter of Appreciation (LoA). This award recognizes specific efforts and/or achievements that have benefitted the SISO community. 
  • SIWzie Award. This award recognizes SISO published papers for the recommended reading list of a Simulation Interoperable Workshop (SIW). 
SISO OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO M&S AWARDS
SISO TECHNICAL MERIT AWARDS


2010

Dr. Andreas Tolk 		Citation: SISO is proud to make its first Technical Merit Award to Dr. Andreas Tolk, who has for 10 years been at the forefront of modeling and simulation scientific thought and practice in such diverse areas as human crowd modeling, a theory of conceptual modeling, simulation architectures and levels of interoperability. His technical contributions to Modeling and Simulation have resulted in eight Best Paper Awards and 21 SIWzie Awards from SISO; Best Paper recognition from SCS; and four unsolicited nominations for this award. 


2011

Mikael Karlsson     		 Citation: For substantial contributions to development of the HLA Standard, in particular the HLA Evolved. Mr. Karlsson’s contributions range from new conceptual ideas like modular FOMs and principles for ‘Update rate reduction’ to providing extensive engineering support and design of the Web Services API. Also, he shared his visions and ideas with enthusiasm and indefatigable support for SISO activities to advance understanding and use of simulation interoperability. The majority of his papers have been presented at Simulation Interoperability Workshops and many were awarded SIWzies.


2011

Björn Möller		 Citation: For substantial contributions to development of the HLA Standard, in particular the HLA Evolved. Mr. Möller’s contributions range from new conceptual ideas like modular FOMs and principles for ‘Update rate reduction’ to providing extensive engineering support and design of the Web Services API. Also, he shared his visions and ideas with enthusiasm and indefatigable support for SISO activities to advance understanding and use of simulation interoperability. The majority of his papers have been presented at Simulation Interoperability Workshops and many were awarded SIWzies.


SISO MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARDS


2010

Dr. Jean-Louis Igarza 		Citation: SISO is pleased to award Dr. Jean-Louis Igarza for Meritorious Service for his contributions to the international M&S Community for more than 20 years. Jean-Louis’ work as the chair of NATO MSG in alignment with his activities in SISO's EXCOM laid the foundation not only for fruitful collaborations, but also for the acceptance of SISO as a standardization body for NATO's M&S efforts, which increased the importance of SISO activities significantly. Dr. Igarza’s service shaped SISO and the future of M&S standards.


2010

Ms. Peggy Gravitz 		Citation: For more than ten years, Peggy Gravitz has provided Meritorious Service to SISO and the standards development process. While serving as an elected and appointed member of the SAC, Peggy was the lead author for the BPDSP version 7.1. She served as lead author for the SISO Product templates. Peggy leads the SISO Quality checklist development. As TAD, Ms. Gravitz was instrumental in the success of the CMSD and EDRS product developments.


2011

Priscilla R. Elfrey		 Citation: The award is for Priscilla’s ongoing contributions to expand the SISO community of interest beyond DoD and promoting wider use of SISO Standards.
An active member of SISO for more than a decade, among Priscilla’s numerous contributions, she has: initiated and chaired the Space Community Forum; held leadership positions in Message Passing and Game Technology Study Groups; served as SISO liaison with NASA management since 2002; and served as Joint Plenary Speaker for Euro SIW, Santa Margherita, Italy 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland 2008, and Ottawa, 2010. Most significant of her achievements is her dedication to providing youth the opportunity to become M&S professionals. Priscilla has been the driving force behind Smackdown 2011 and 2012, this year expanding the scope to include 34 tribal colleges through the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.


2011

James (Mark) McCall   		 Citation: This award is for Mark's lifetime contribution to SISO Standards.
Mark has served SISO since its inception in many capacities, including: Individual contributor to the DIS, HLA, FEDEP, and DSEEP standards; Member and Chair of the SAC; Member and Vice Chair of the EXCOM; Chair of the BOD; Member and Chair of the DIS PDG. He has tirelessly given of himself for over 15 years to further the cause of Simulation Standards and SISO.


SISO LETTER OF APPRECIATION
Nominations may be submitted by any SISO member for a Letter of Appreciation which, after review, is sent to the manager(s) of the SISO member being recognized.  Nominations are submitted to the Executive Director, who is normally the one who signs the letters, though they may be signed by any of the SISO Committee Chairs, as appropriate for the contributions being recognized.
SIWZIE AWARDS
After each Simulation Interoperability Workshop, the Forum Chairs nominate papers and presentations that they believe to be the most significant presented at this SIW.  The Conference Committee members review these papers, rank them, and the CC awards SIWzie certificates to those on which the reviewers agree.  These papers are listed (in ranked order) on the summary page for each past SIW.