Evaluation and optimization of innovative production systems of goods and services Application Areas Production and services Design and engineering systems Design and optimisation of supply chains Enterprise integrated management Optimisation of transportation systems Project management Planning and scheduling Evaluation of performances Supervision and safety Maintenance and reliability of systems Manpower management Workshop management Traffic control (telecommunication networks, road traffic) Cognitive systems Health Care systems Natural systems Management of productive actives Simulation and quality Web, virtual reality and simulation Simulation and formation Topics Modeling methodologies Specification and developing models Mathematical modeling tools Simulation tools and methods Optimisation methods Meta-heuristics Meta-modeling Modeling and Petri networks Object approaches, actors, multi-agents, frames Information and knowledge management Information and decision systems Sensitivity analysis, robustness and validation of models Simulation of discrete, continuous and hybrid systems Simulation of stochastic systems Parallel and distributed systems Real time simulation Simulation and artificial intelligence Multi-criteria aided decision Simulation and optimisation Integrated and hybrid methods