ISG: Simulation und Visualisierung 2004

Zielsetzung und Schwerpunkte

The Conference "Simulation and Visualisation" 2004 (Simulation und Visualisierung) is open to everyone with interest in the fields of simulation, modelling and visualisation (SimVis). One goal of this conference is the presentation of new research and innovative applications. In addition SimVis provides meeting place for simulation and visualisation practitioners, researchers, and vendors working in all disciplines and in the industrial, governmental, military, and academic sectors.
In recent years the SimVis program has been organized into tracks that reflect the current state of the SimVis field as well as the mixture of interests and professional orientations of the conference attendees. The content and structure of these tracks will vary to from year to year. The tracks of SimVis 2004 will be organized along the following lines:

Distributed and interoperable systems lead to new requirements for simulation and visualisation components. Modularity and standardisation like HLA and XML are becoming more important for the interoperability between components of SimVis systems. Web-based simulation services applies the ideas of ASP (Application Service Providing) to simulation services and projects.

Manufacturing and logistics are classical and growing application areas of SimVis. Manufacturing focuses on computer integrated manufacturing, materials handling, on-line control, and virtual manufacturing. The logistics part will cover distribution systems; intelligent transportation systems, pedestrian movement, traffic, and supply chain management.

Modelling and simulation of stochastic systems deals with techniques for specifying and analysing discrete-state stochastic systems. Contributions are invited which describe innovative approaches to the modelling of such systems, or to the analysis or implementation of these models. Applications which demonstrate the effective use of new techniques or which raise new technical issues are also welcome.

Training and education. Training combines simulation and visualisation aspects in an excellent manner. The training part focuses on applications, methods and technologies for visual-interactive systems like VR, AR and authoring tools . The education part of this track will cover the education in simulation and visualisation at schools and universities.

In computer games SimVis technologies are applied very intensive. This track will cover the wide range of SimVis application in computer games. The scope ranges from opponent simulation in strategy games to real-time simulation of objects in virtual worlds.

Non-photorealistic Visualisation uses non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques in the area of visualisation. NPR is not limited to rendering geometric models but provides stylistic means for expressively visualising different kinds of data. The track covers innovative and new concepts to bridging the gap between model-based computer graphics and visualisation by combining these two fields of research.

The use of simulation and visualisation increases in the medical area. This includes simulation of tissues with deformable models, case-based systems for diagnosis support and therapy planning as well as intraoperative visualisation. Furthermore the topic contains applications of SimVis for medical education, analysis and visualisation of time-varying medical data and basic algorithms for medical visualisation and image analysis.