[spsp-members] Call for proposals: SIMUTOOLS 2026

[Spencer, Matt via spsp-members]

Dear SPSP members,

The upcoming SIMUTOOLS conference may be of interest to you. This year with a special focus on epistemological and philosophical aspects of models and simulations. Taking place in November in London.

Best,
Matt


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CALL FOR PAPERS

SIMUtools 2026 - 17th International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

https://simutools.eai-conferences.org/2026/

London, UK. 19-20 November, 2026
Venue: Senate House, University of London.

Full Paper Submission deadline: 1 July 2026

SIMUtools is indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus, Compendex, GII-GRIN-SCIE Conference Rating: https://scie.lcc.uma.es<https://scie.lcc.uma.es/>

Proceedings published by Springer. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to different Journals, including MONET (JCR IF: 2.4 2024), EAI Transactions series (Open Access), and EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

DATES:
Submission deadline: 1st July, 2026
Notification deadline: 1st September, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: 1st October, 2026
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EAI SIMUTools 2026 is the 17th edition of the annual International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. The conference focuses on a broad range of research challenges in the field of simulation, modeling and analysis, addressing current and future trends in simulation techniques, methods, models, practices and software and tools. The conference is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary collaborative research in these areas and across a wide spectrum of application domains.

Building on the success of the previous editions, this year’s edition will provide an exciting forum for interaction among academic and industry researchers together with practitioners from both the modelling and simulation community, the emulation community, the development community, and the different user communities. The EAI SIMUTools 2026 conference will be held in London, UK, on 19-20 November 2026.

Topics of interest include:

1. Foundations:
Methodological advances
Mathematical & logical foundations
Principles of simulation and model design
Advances in compositional modelling

2. Tools:
Libraries and frameworks for modelling and simulation
Verification tools and techniques
Statistics and analysis tools
Visualisation tools
Use of AI or Machine Learning in simulation
Tools for the co-production of modelling and simulation with knowledge holders and users

3. Applications:
Case studies
Novel applications of simulation and modelling
Comparisons of modelling and simulation approaches, frameworks, and tools

Special Focus :
This year we invite papers exploring philosophical and methodological issues connected with modelling and simulation:

- Studies of the pragmatics of representation and how models and simulations are used to represent their targets
- Work in meta-modelling and the role and value of models of the modelling process
- Research into abstraction and the credibility of assumptions in the modelling process
- Methodological issues connected with the use of AI within models (including AI-driven components and AI-generated simulations)
- Reflections on model evaluation, including validation, verification, benchmarking and the criteria of accuracy used within them
- Reflections on communicating modelling and simulation to non-modellers, including the use of visualisation tools to support communication and sustained collaboration
- Research into the place of values in modelling and simulation, including the role of values in the design process, and challenges communicating values alongside model outputs

The conference is interested in all types of simulation methods: discrete event, Monte Carlo simulation, parallel and distributed simulation, agent-based simulation, simulation-optimization, symbiotic simulation, DEVS, cellular automata, lattice-Boltzmann, membrane computing, P-systems, Petri Nets, GPU-base simulation, etc., as well as related tools.

Case studies and applications can be drawn from any field, including Security, Transportation & Logistics, Production & Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Healthcare Systems, Telecommunication Systems, Energy Systems, Environmental Challenges, Bioinformatics, Mathematical Analysis and Simulation, Societal Challenges, Complex Systems, and so on.

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PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Full/ Regular papers should be 12-20 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)
Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection.

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STEERING COMMITTEE:
Chair: Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Editor-in-Chief of Journal: “Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International”, SCS

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General & Technical Program Chair: Tristan Caulfield, University College London, UK
General co-Chair: William Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, UK
General co-Chair: David Pym, University of London, UK
Technical Program Chair: Matt Spencer, University of Warwick, UK
Technical Program co-Chair: Kavin Preethi Narasimhan, University of Warwick, UK
Technical Program co-Chair José-Luis Guisado-Lizar, University of Seville, Spain
Publications Chair: Marius-Constantin Ilau, University of Bristol, UK

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alonso Inostrosa Psijas, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
David Orellana-Martín, University of Seville, Spain
Francis George Cabarle, University of Seville, Spain
Gaurav Mirlekar, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
James Byrne, Dublin City University, Ireland
Jiri Kroc, Independent Researcher, Czech Republic
Johannes Lüthi, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tirol, Austria
José-Luis Guisado-Lizar, University of Seville, Spain
Lei Shi, Carlow Institute of Technology, Ireland
Maria Julia Blas, Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño INGAR, Argentina
Srikanth Yoginath, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

CONTACT: https://simutools.eai-conferences.org/2026/
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Matt Spencer | Associate Professor | Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | University of Warwick | Coventry CV4 7AL
m.spe...@warwick.ac.uk<mailto:m.spe...@warwick.ac.uk>
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