Association for Computing Machinery – Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling

2025 SIGSIM Awards

ACM SIGSIM is pleased to announce the 2025 SIGSIM Awards presented at the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) in Seattle.​ Distinguished Contributions Award The ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award recognizes individuals for overall, long-term contributions to the modeling and simulation community, including technical innovation, publications, leadership, teaching, mentoring, and service. The 2025 Distinguished Contributions Award is […]

Message form the ACM Leadership regarding ACM Open

Dear Members of the Computing Community, We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, […]

News from the ACM Publication Board

AI Initiatives: The ACM is trying to expand its presence in AI in order to better meet the needs of the AI community.  A challenge is that while we publish a lot of research papers involving AI, the highest-profile AI-specific venues are not ACM venues.  However, there are also opportunities: ACM has a presence in virtually […]

2026 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM’26)

Presented by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). The 2026 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference will be held at the University of Central Florida in the L3 Harris Engineering Building. The conference features keynote speeches delivered by technology and industry leaders, technical sessions, and professional development tutorials. Scientists, engineers, managers, educators, and business professionals […]