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Simulation and Modeling for Applied Decision Making
to Promote the Efficient Use of Resource Allocation

Modeling and Simulation Conference

June 1999
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Schedule

Pre-Conference Schedule

Window	Agenda Item	Comments
9:00 - 12:00	Arrive	Airport Greeting?
1:00 - 5:00	Sandia National Laboratories Tour	Explanation of what is available on the tour
6:00 - 8:00	Registration	Pre-conference Reception

Day 1 - Statement of the Problem

Window	Agenda Item	Comments
7:30 - 9:00	Registration Continental Breakfast	Registration for anyone who has purchased Day 1 and any succeeding days.
9:00 - 10:00	Opening Remarks	Welcome from sponsoring organizations, local dignitaries...
10:00 - 12:00	Role of M&S in Decision Making	Topic: Overview of conference content and objectives of conference, modeling and simulation as decision age tools, kinds of problems to be solved with M&S, Resource Allocation, etc. Who: Names and number of presenters TBD
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch/Address	Who: Person at UNM who is responsible for the new supercomputer
1:00 - 5:00	Statement of the problem	Topic: Discuss objectives, challenges of modeling and simulation, expectations and current status. Who: Names and number of presenters TBD.
5:00	Adjourn
7:00 - 10:00	Dinner Keynote Address	Topic: Consilience, the unity of knowledge. Speaker sought: E.O. Wilson

Day 2 - Applications and Status

Window	Agenda Item	Comments
7:30 - 9:00	Registration Continental Breakfast	Registration continues for late arrivals and people who have bought only Day 2 or Day 3 passes.
9:00 - 12:00	Problem Area Presentations	What: Brief presentations to highlight specific and common issues across the range of disciplines at the conference. How: 30 minute presentations with a fixed format: History of M&S in the discipline Problems to be solved by M&S Things done well Things done poorly Difficulties Key Issues Methods and resources Leading edge Instructions to authors formatted as the standard format paper we require. Who: Names and number of presenters TBD.
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch/Open discussion: What’s Hot. Today’s Story.
1:00 - 2:00	Problem Area Presentations
3:00 - 5:00	Resources for M&S	Discussion of resources, especially what’s new in hardware and software.
5:00	Adjourn
7:00 - 10:00	Dinner Prosperity Game Introduction

Day 3 - Specific Applications and Status

Window	Agenda Item	Comments
7:30 - 9:00	Registration Continental Breakfast	Registration continues for late arrivals and people who have bought only Day 3 passes.
9:00 - 12:00	Advanced Topics	Emerging Role of Real-Time Simulation Decision Support Environment Gaming and Simulation in Entertainment (Eric Haseltine)
12:00 - 2:00	Lunch/Wrap up	Invited speaker who observes, then summarizes where we are and where we are going. A grand father or a visionary. Optimally, both.
2:00 - 5:00	Prosperity Game Exercise	Objective: This is an opportunity to experience a vision of the future. Topic: To utilize mutual gains negotiations leading to the wide use of M&S for decision making. How: The game is implemented on the conference web site and can be played from this time onward for a period of one year. Password only access and restricted to conference attendees or their institutionally designated representatives. Offered By: SNL, UNM, and FPBM Systems LLC.
5:00	Adjourn

Post-Conference

Window	Agenda Item	Comments
9:00 - 11:00	Sandia Tour	Same tour as in Pre-Conference Activities
9:00 - 11:00	Short Course	Title: Modeling, Negotiations, and Internal Economies. Objective: Help participants understand the nature of the dynamic mechanisms they have to capture in modeling their own company or other organization. Topics: Include system definition, boundaries, sources of variability, system extent; model: boundary, process, context. How to use models and simulation to negotiate within the system, how to build complexity without making things more complicated. How: Stand up instruction and group activities and exercise. New media TBD. Offered By: FPBM Systems, LLC.
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 5:00	Short Course Continued
5:00	Adjourn

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