A virtual meeting room where simulationists can exchange ideas, discuss simulation techniques, post issues and solutions, and talk directly to other simulationists.

Similar to the ExtendSim Exchange, but a restricted community where educators and researchers can exchange teaching methodologies, research, and other ideas. You must apply for and be approved for membership in the Academic eXchange whereas the ExtendSim eXchange is open to everyone.

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Become a follower of the ExtendSim Blog. Gain insight from the simulation experts at Imagine That Inc. as well as other simulation pros as they share their thoughts on a variety of topics.
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A professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in your career, and can be one of your most valuable assets. LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return.

the ExtendSim network on LinkedIn connects you with professionals from around the work that can help you accelerate success. They believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.

Through the ExtendSim LinkedIn network you can:

	Manage the information that’s publicly available about you as professional.
	Find and be introduced to potential clients, service providers, and subject experts who come recommended.
	Create and collaborate on projects, gather data, share files, and solve problems.
	Be found for business opportunities and find potential partners.
	Gain new insights from discussions with like-minded professionals in private group settings.
	Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals.
	Post and distribute job listings to find the best talent for your company.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

The Association for the Advancement of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises promotes modelling and simulation in the resolution of problems, including theory and applications. Scientific journals are edited by the association and meetings are organized throughout the world (2 or 3 per year).

ECMS, The European Council for Modelling and Simulation, is an independent forum of European academics and practitioners dedicated to research, development, and applications of modelling and simulation.

European Training and Simulation Association (ETSA) represents the European training and simulation community and provides an environment for users and suppliers to exchange opportunities, ideas, information, and strategies on training and simulation technology and methodology. It brings together all those that have a professional interest in improving the effectiveness of training and training related interoperability, standards and codes of practice. It represents to governments and other users of training and simulation the non-partisan business interests of the industry.

The Federation of European Simulation Societies, provides a European forum for regional and national simulation societies to promote the advancement of modelling and simulation in industry, research and development.

Under EUROSIM umbrella, EUROSIM Member Societies and co-operating societies and groups organise conferences, produce publications on modelling and simulation, work in standardising or technical committees, etc.

A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others.

The goal of IEEE is to be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals everywhere, and be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical professionals in improving global conditions.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) serves the scientific and professional needs of OR/MS investigators, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as the institutions they serve, by such services as publishing a variety of journals that describe the latest OR/MS methods and applications and by organizing professional conferences.

IIE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, nonprofit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial engineering.

The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting economic and cultural advancement. Established in 1977, IASTED organizes multidisciplinary conferences for academics and professionals, mainly in the fields of engineering, science, and education. IASTED holds conferences and courses in both industrialized and developing nations.

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems.

The mission of INCOSE is to advance the state of the art and practice of systems engineering in industry, academia, and government by promoting interdisciplinary, scaleable approaches to produce technologically appropriate solutions that meet societal needs.

It's vision is to be the world's authoritative systems engineering professional society.

INCOSE goals are to:

	Provide a focal point for dissemination of systems engineering knowledge.
	Promote international collaboration in systems engineering practice, education, and research.
	Assure the establishment of competitive, scaleable professional standards in the practice of systems engineering.
	Improve the professional status of all persons engaged in the practice of systems engineering.
	Encourage governmental and industrial support for research and educational programs that will improve the systems engineering process and its practice.

Liophant is a Chapter of the Society for Computer Simulation International. Liophant is a non-profit association born in order to be a trait-d'union among simulation developers and users; Liophant is devoted to promote and diffuse the simulation techniques and methodologies; the Association promotes exchange of students, sabbatical years, organization of International Conferences, organization of courses and stages in companies to apply the simulation to real problems..

The McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences (MISS) is an initiative of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). The Institute is named after Mr. John McLeod, the founder of the Society and the first editor of its journal, "Simulation".

The MISS consists of co-operating Centers active in professionalism, research, education, and knowledge dissemination in the modeling and simulation (M&S) domain. They feel modeling and simulation is an enabling technology for:

	Decision making in system design, development, optimization, control, and acquisition, as well as for sensitivity analysis, planning, and prototyping
	Understanding
	Education and training to enhance decision making and/or motor skills
	Entertainment
	Supporting real system operations
	Enriching real system operations

The MISS aims to provide an organizational structure that will serve to integrate and enrich, within its Centers, the activities of modeling and simulation expertise throughout the world.

The charter of MSUG is "To Increase Successful Use of Simulation as a Decision Support Tool".

They intend to accomplish this mission by:

	Providing MSUG members with a forum, across the company and industry boundaries, for the mutual exchange of technical, administrative, and management information pertaining to the use of simulation technology.
	Broadening the knowledge of its members on simulation and its applications.
	Communicating with simulation software suppliers regarding their product, maintenance, and other technical requirements from end users so as to provide vendors with ideas for improving products.

The Orlando-based National Center for Simulation (NCS) has been very much focused on efforts to promote and provide modeling and simulation technology transfer, education, and business development support to the government, industry, and academic communities. NCS serves as an important link between the military, other government at all levels, industry, and academia engaged in research, development, and applications of simulation technology. And, NCS serves as a bridge between the “traditional” defense simulation organizations and other simulation-related communities of interest, such as the digital media and medical simulation and training communities.

SIGMETRICS is the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) for the computer systems performance evaluation community.

SIGMETRICS promotes research in performance analysis techniques as well as the advanced and innovative use of known methods and tools. It sponsors conferences, such as its own annual conference (SIGMETRICS), publishes a newsletter (Performance Evaluation Review), and operates a mailing list linking researchers, students, and practitioners interested in performance evaluation.
Target areas of performance analysis include file and memory systems, database systems, computer networks, operating systems, architecture, distributed systems, fault tolerant systems, and real-time system. In addition, members are interested in developing new performance methodology including mathematical modeling, analysis, instrumentation techniques, model verification and validation, workload characterization, simulation, statistical analysis, stochastic modeling, experimental design, reliability analysis, optimization, and queuing theory.

SIGSIM is the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) on Simulation. Its mission is to promote and disseminate the advancement of high quality state-of-the-art in modeling and simulation across a broad range of interests.

SimSummit is an occasional forum – kept relatively informal by mutual agreement – of organizations with broad interest in modeling and simulation technology, professional development, industry, and market.

Organizational membership includes Government, Commercial, Academic, and Professional organizations. Membership is initiated by an official expression of interest by the applicant organization, indicating its role in the modeling and simulation community-of-practice and its interest in participating in the SimSummit forum. Acceptance of the organization as a member of the forum is by consensus of existing member organizations as determined by the Executive Committee.

The objective of the SimSummit forum is no less than to significantly advance the evolution of the modeling and simulation profession, industry, and market. Particular goals of SimSummit are:

	to establish a comprehensive international forum of the most significant organizations in Modeling and Simulation.
	to identify and maintain for the worldwide M&S community-of-practice a common ‘canonical’ topical agenda upon which cooperative effort may be focused.
	to facilitate effective and constructive collaboration among member organizations and beyond by means of participative events, publications, collaborative workspaces, and shared information assets.
	to realize a truly intervisible, comprehensive, self-conscious, and effective modeling and simulation community-of-practice.

The special virtue of the SimSummit forum is to educe the very considerable degree of common interest that exists even among relatively disparate organizations from Government, Industry, Professional Societies and Academia, involved in M&S of many styles for a wide variety of purposes in apparently exclusive application domains, and to derive therefrom the greatest possible collective benefit for the international M&S community-of-practice.

The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) is an international organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability and reuse for the benefit of a broad range of modeling and simulation communities. SISO's Conference Committee organizes Simulation Interoperability Workshops (SIWs) in the US and Europe. SISO's Standards Activity Committee develops and supports simulation
interoperability standards, both independently and in conjunction with other organizations. SISO is recognized as a Standards Development Organization (SDO) by NATO and as a Standards Sponsor by IEEE. In addition, SISO is a Category C Liaison Organization with ISO/IEC (JTC 1) for the development
of standards for the representation and interchange of data regarding Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification (SEDRIS).

Established in 1952, The Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS) is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven corporation (dba Simulation Councils, Inc.) managed by a Board of Directors and a President's Council. SCS is the only technical Society dedicated to advancing the use of modeling and simulation to solve real-world problems. SCS is the principal technical society devoted to the advancement of simulation and allied computer arts in all fields. The purpose of SCS is to facilitate communication among professionals in the field of simulation. To this end, SCS organizes meetings of regional councils, sponsors and co-sponsors national and international conferences, and publishes the SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International and the Modeling & Simulation magazines.

Analytics, a digital magazine published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science INFORMS, provides readers with real-life examples of how data, modeling and mathematical analysis is used to drive better business decisions and provide concrete competitive advantage.

 

The Engineering Economist is a refereed journal published jointly by the Engineering Economy Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). The journal publishes articles, case studies, surveys, book and software reviews, and readers' comments that represent current research, practice, and teaching involving problems of capital investment.

This quarterly journal seeks submissions in a number of areas, including, but not limited to: capital investment analysis, cost estimation and accounting, cost of capital, design economics, economic decision analysis, education, policy analysis (i.e. governmental), and research and development.

With a mission of covering the full spectrum of industrial engineering practice, year after year, the award-winning Industrial Engineer magazine is rated as the number one benefit by members of IIE.

Industrial Engineer features articles that focus on industrial engineering issues, problems, and solutions, as well as recent developments and research that may have a significant impact on the practice of industrial engineering. Emphasis is placed on practical value and analytical approach. Industrial Engineer articles tend to be based on experience and actual hands-on operating situations, take a how-to tone, or highlight valuable applications in a working environment.

Industrial Management features articles that focus on current management issues, developments, challenges, problems, and solutions. Articles offer significant insight and assistance to executives, department heads, operating managers, industrial engineers, and those aspiring to management positions.

Industrial Management articles tend to be based on experience and hands-on operating situations and those that illustrate valuable applications in a working environment.

As the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, IIE Transactions articles cover a wide range of topics of interest to industrial engineers who want to remain current with the state-of-the-art technologies. The refereed journal fosters the engineering community by publishing papers with a strong methodological focus motivated by real problems that impact engineering practice and research. Published monthly, the journal is composed of four focus issues:

	Design and Manufacturing
	Operations Engineering and Analysis
	Quality and Reliability Engineering
	Scheduling and Logistics

IIE Transactions encourages research motivated by critical and complex engineering problems that arise in a wide variety of domains including service, public policy, health care, security, biotechnology, transportation, and others. The journal publishes papers that integrate industrial engineering with other disciplines including statistics, other engineering disciplines, computer science, biological science, and operations research. Articles covering new methodologies and state-of-the-art surveys are included in the journal.

OR/MS Today is the magazine for members of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The bi-monthly publication provides a comprehensive look at operations research and management science through stories, feature articles, case studies, software reviews and surveys authored by recognized leaders in the field. Operations research and management science are interdisciplinary sciences aimed at solving operational and societal problems arising in all areas of industry, business and government.

The SISO Simulation Technology On-line Magazine is a publication of the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization and is intended as a forum for keeping the SISO community abreast of issues and information of interest to its members.

This quarterly, digital magazine provides a comprehensive look at the analytics profession through news articles, features, columns, and departments. Analytics will provide a window into applications of mathematics, operations research, and statistics to drive business decisions.

Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International is the monthly refereed transactions of the leading society devoted to advancing the discipline and profession of modeling and simulation. An archival journal in both print and electronic form, it consists of distinct sections--one devoted to theory, the other to applications. Published articles have a clear relevance to general modeling and simulation issues. In addition to its archival mission, the journal aims to help professionals and researchers, particularly those involved in multidisciplinary projects, apply advances in modeling and simulation theory, methodology and technology to their application areas.

The principal focus of Simulation is on research papers, however, comprehensive review and tutorial papers that explain methodological topics in modeling and simulation are also within the scope of the journal.