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About ACM SIGSIM Mission, History, Organization, Benefits, Awards, Impact

Founded in April 1969, SIGSIM has been enjoying the support of a large, active community and leadership. SIGSIM offers several member benefits, community benefits, and awards. Over 17,000 articles published in relation to SIGSIM from 1971 are available via the ACM Digital Library, with over 3,000,000 cumulative downloads to date.

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Mission

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (ACM SIGSIM) seeks the advancement of the state-of-the-art in simulation and modeling. Simulation and modeling cut across a broad range of interests. SIGSIM joins each year with a variety of other organizations in co-sponsoring premier conferences in the field.


Organization

ACM SIGSIM was founded in April 1969, and ever since has been enjoying the support of a large, active community and leadership. It continues to be a vibrant society backed by a dedicated pool of leaders and an excellent financial health to serve the community.

Current Office-bearers (2020-2024)

  • Chair: Kalyan Perumalla chair@sigsim.acm.org
  • Vice Chair: Andreas Tolk vicechair@sigsim.acm.org
  • Treasurer: Kara Olson treasurer@sigsim.acm.org
  • Kalyan Perumalla
    Kalyan Perumalla | SIGSIM Chair
  • Andreas Tolk | SIGSIM Vice Chair
  • Kara Olson | SIGSIM Treasurer

Previous Office-bearers

  • Ex-chair (2016-2020): Margaret Loper
  • Past chairs: Paul Fishwick, Osman Balci, Ernest Page, …

Benefits

Member Benefits

The following benefits are provided by SIGSIM to its members:

  • Proceedings (CD) of the annual Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) mailed to each SIGSIM member
  • Proceedings (CD) of the annual ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS) mailed to each SIGSIM member
  • Reduced registration fees for many conferences including WSC and SIGSIM-PADS
  • SIGSIM members are granted full on-line access to the proceedings of the SIGSIM sponsored / supported conferences in the ACM Digital Library

Community Benefits

The following benefits are provided by SIGSIM to its community:

  • Access to ACM SIGSIM M&S Knowledge Repository
  • Distinguished Contributions Award
  • Conference Travel Support Award for Ph.D. Students in M&S (WSC and SIGSIM-PADS)
  • Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session at the annual WSC and SIGSIM-PADS conferences
  • Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award at the annual WSC and SIGSIM-PADS conferences
  • Sponsorship of annual conferences: WSC, SIGSIM-PADS, MSWiM and DS-RT
  • In-cooperation support of many conferences including: SIMUTools, SpringSim, SummerSIm, SIMULTECH, VRToolsEd, BICT and HPCS
  • ACM SIGSIM Blog Digest issued to the mailing list and subscribers
  • LinkedIn Professional Group named “ACM SIGSIM”, which provides professional networking among M&S professionals
  • Announcements via a moderated email distribution list about events of interest, Calls for Papers, and Calls for Participation

Membership

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Awards

SIGSIM offers the following awards:

  • Distinguished Contributions Award
See Awards

Impact and Publications

Over 17,000 articles published in relation to SIGSIM from 1971 are available via the ACM Digital Library, with over 3,000,000 cumulative downloads to date.

See Impact


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