Workshop: Computer Simulation - Opportunities and Challenges; Shanghai, China; 23-25 July 2012

本次研讨会将于2012年7月23日至25日在中国上海举行，其目的是（i）探讨与新兴计算技术和应用领域相关的仿真研究的新机遇和挑战，并集思广益如何成功地接近它们;（ii）促进东亚的仿真研究并促进国际合作。 新兴的计算技术为仿真方法学带来了新的范例，改变了传统的输入建模、输出分析和仿真优化的实现方式。新技术也为仿真社区提供了巨大的机会，通过扩展应用领域和为新应用领域的大规模仿真提供快速/高效/可靠的决策支持工具，进一步发展。这次会议将有助于确定新的计算技术和新兴应用领域方面的研究和模拟应用的新方向。与其他运筹学方法相比，由于计算资源有限，复杂的大规模模拟模型是计算密集型的，随机模拟在北美和西欧以外的地区相对未得到充分利用。如果成功的话，这次研讨会将促进和促进仿真研究方面的长期合作与协作，这些研究将利用新出现的计算技术，如并行计算和云计算，并导致从医疗保健到能源到电信到运输的广泛应用。

The objectives of this workshop, being held in Shanghai, China, 23-25 July 2012, are (i) to scope new opportunities and challenges in simulation research related to new emerging computing technologies and application areas, and brainstorm how to successfully approach them; and (ii) to promote simulation research in East Asia and foster international collaborations. New emerging computing technologies bring new paradigms to simulation methodology, changing traditional ways of implementing input modeling, output analysis, and simulation optimization. The new technologies also give enormous opportunities for the simulation community to grow further by expanding application areas and providing fast/efficient/reliable decision support tools for large-scale simulations in the new application areas. The meeting will help define new directions in research and applications of simulation with respect to new computing technologies and emerging application areas.In contrast to other operations research methodologies, stochastic simulation has been relatively underused outside of North American and Western Europe, due to limited computational resources, as complex large-scale simulation models are computationally intensive. If successful, this workshop will enable and foster long-term cooperation and collaboration on simulation research that will exploit new emerging computing technologies such as parallel and cloud computing and lead to wide use in applications from healthcare to energy to telecommunications to transportation.