Simulation Technology Magazine
Vol. 4 Issue 2 SISO News Wednesday, January 10, 2001
EXCOM Chair Corner
Article by: Warren Katz

A great deal has happened since my last writing of this newsletter. First of all, we had another excellent workshop where over 700 attendees exchanged ideas and showed their wares. I’d like to thank the Conference Committee, all the authors, the attendees, the Paper Review Panelists, and last but not least, Duncan Miller, CC Chair, for putting on another fine show....

PREVIEW OF THE 2001 SPRING WORKSHOP
Article by: Duncan Miller


As this edition goes to virtual press, the SISO Conference Committee is reviewing more than 130 abstracts submitted for the 2001 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, to be held March 25-30, 2001. Decisions will be made and authors will be informed regarding acceptance/rejection and tentative Forum presentations within the next two weeks....

SISO Inc BOD Corner
Article by: Sam Knight

Harry H. Thompson, III was hired as an Executive Director of SISO in a small ceremony on the eve of the Fall SIW. The event was a milestone for SISO since it marks the hiring of our first employee. More significantly, it signified our resolve to constantly improve SISO’s ability to contribute to the M&S community....

SISO Welcomes a New Sponsor!
Article by: ITT Industries

SISO would like to welcome its newest sponsor - ITT Industries. If you are interested in becoming a SISO Sponsor please contact Harry Thompson via email at hthompson@sisostds.org or by calling 912-538-8558. ...

Standards Activity Committee (SAC) Update
Article by: Michael Myjak

The Standards Activity Committee has been busy over the last few months moving forward the ideas and products that promote the standardization of technologies required to enable interoperable simulations for the M&S community....

Webletter Information
Article by: Editor

The SISO Webletter is a publication of the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization and is intended as a forum for keeping the SISO community abreast of issues of interest to its members....

2000 Fall SIWzies Awarded!
Article by: Allison Griffin

SIWzies AWARDED!

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BOMs: The Promised Land?
Article by: Paul Gustavson

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Certification for Simulation Professionals! … What will they think of next?
Article by: Bill Waite
“Quick Watson, get dressed, the (simulation professional certification) game’s afoot!” - So might Sherlock Holmes rouse his colleague Dr. Watson to apprise him of one of the most significant initiatives in the evolution of the modeling and simulation profession....

Data Call for The Economics of Simulation
Article by: Dr Steve Gordon
"What value do I receive from spending my next marginal dollar on simulation?"

The advent of more and more visible and expensive modeling and simulation enterprises invites explicit consideration of the cost, value, and return-on-investment (ROI) in the narrowest terms and, more broadly, of the economics of modeling and simulation as a market sector....

Did You Miss the SEDRIS™ Special Edition?
Article by: Simulation Technology Staff

Take a look at the recently published SEDRIS™ Special Edition issue of Simulation Technology magazine.

The SEDRIS™ Special Edition was designed to provide a thorough overview of SEDRIS™ including the current status of the technology as well as the development of the SEDRIS™ Standards....

HARRY H. THOMPSON, III HIRED AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SIMULATION INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (SISO)
Article by: Allison Griffin

ORLANDO, Florida, Nov. 9, 2000 – The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO), which focuses on facilitating simulation interoperability across the simulation industry, hired Harry H. Thompson, III as Executive Director....

HLA Standards Approved!
Article by: Simulation Technology Staff

On 21 September 2000, the IEEE Standards Board voted to accept all three HLA documents as official IEEE Standards....

Intro to M&S
Article by: Margaret Loper

Dan Stevens is the guest author for the Intro to M&S article in this publication of Simulation Technology. ...

Simulation-Based Acquisition Makes Robust Use of M&S
Article by: Donald Ewen
Bringing The DD 21 Concept To Life
A key DoD acquisition reform initiative, Simulation-Based Acquisition (SBA), calls for the increased use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technologies across all acquisition phases....

Editors Column
Article by: Dell Lunceford


Some of you may know there is a small effort on-going looking at the value of creating a certification program for simulationist. Some of you may also know that there is an effort underway to rework the SCI's Capabilities Maturity Model by adding specific knowledge about selected areas such as systems engineering, and if we think it makes sense, perhaps for simulation as well. ...

JUST WORDS – ABOUT M&S
Article by: Scott Harmon
What three character combination most pervades our community's ruminations today? No, not "HLA" although that is a good guess. Of course, they are "M&S" in their various forms, i.e., model and simulate, model and simulation, and modeling and simulation....

M&S Quiz
Article by: Beth Sheldon
Want to Play "Who Wants to be a Millionaire- M&S Edition". ...

On Software and Systems Architecture – Toward an Architecture for SMART
Article by: Ernest H. Page


Introduction
The recent hubbub about “simulation-based acquisition” has evolved in the U.S. Army into an initiative called SMART – Simulation and Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements and Training. ...

Report Out of the C4I Study Group
Article by: Joe Lacetera
A key issue for both the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) communities is interoperability between C4ISR systems and simulations....

Same Time Different Place - Conference on CGF-BR
Article by: Dan Mullally

The 10th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation (CGF-BR) is going to be held in Norfolk, Virginia at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott on 15-17 May 2001....

SISO Article Published
Article by: Allison Griffin

An article about the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) has been published in the Simulation & Training 2000 magazine - Winter publication. ...

When the Webletter is Published-Notify Me!
Article by: Allison Griffin
If you would like a notice when the new quarterly issue of the SISO Webletter is published, subscribe to the SISO-Admin reflector....

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