JDMS Special Issue: M&S for NEC
Call for Papers

Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology (JDMS) Special Issue:
Modeling & Simulation for Network Enabled Capability

Introduction

Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is a fundamental tenet of future military effectiveness for militarily advanced nations and a high priority for most and for NATO. It can be characterized as the enhancement, or realization, of military capability achieved through effective information sharing between geographically and/or temporally distributed sensors, decision makers, effectors, and support services. NEC offers the benefits of increased mission agility, more efficient uses of resources, and greater force protection through the use of robust networks to provide the right people/decision agents with the right information at the right time. To achieve this, the armed forces must work in new ways, and Governments must adopt acquisition and systems management approaches that prioritize interoperability, dependability, and availability, whilst ensuring security, safety, and affordability. This places demands on all parts of the defense enterprise.

Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a valuable means through which NEC can be analyzed, explored and developed. It can be applied to Concept Development and Experimentation, Acquisition, Training, Exercises, and operations, to enhance military effectiveness and to achieve the transformation that will keep forces agile in the face of the rapidly changing security threat. A model is a representation of a system, entity, process, or phenomenon and can take many forms. A simulation manipulates the model to represent expected behaviors over time.

NEC is a complex, systems of systems challenge that exploits synergies across social and technical networks. It is being illuminated through the application of M&S; at the same time, the discipline of M&S is, itself, being advanced through application to NEC. This special issue of the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation will include articles that cover the range of M&S approaches and the range of NEC-related applications to which M&S is applied. It will also cover the needed advancement of the M&S itself to fully support NEC. It will provide a key source of state-of-the-art M&S for NEC and both theoretical and application-oriented papers are sought. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

• M&S in support of through life management of NEC by e.g. systems of systems architectures
• M&S in support of concept development and experimentation for NEC
• M&S in support of acquisition, test, evaluation and logistics of NEC
• M&S in support mission rehearsal, training and exercises for NEC
• M&S in support of network enabled operations and command and control for NEC
• Advancement of M&S to support NEC, e.g. network enabling of M&S and service oriented architectures for M&S
• Interoperability between M&S systems and operational/support systems for NEC
• Live, virtual and constructive simulations in support of NEC
• Analysis of NEC concepts by M&S
• M&S covering the physical, information, cognitive and social domains of NEC
• Alignment of M&S to the underlying network and information infrastructure capabilities enabling NEC
• Emerging M&S principles and methods as applied to NEC

Papers submitted should not be concurrently under review at another conference, journal or similar venue.

Instructions for Manuscript Preparation

For manuscript formatting and other guidelines, please visit the Author Guidelines for JDMS.

Note: Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted for publication elsewhere. Each submitted manuscript must include title, names, authors' affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses, and a list of keywords. For multiple author submission, please identify the corresponding author.

Due Dates

Submissions for full paper review

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system to the JDMS Manuscript Submission System. Manuscripts must be formatted in single-column pdf format, double-spaced, and use 12pt fonts. In the title page, author(s) must specifically mark that the paper is intended for this special issue as follows: "Modeling & Simulation for Network Enabled Capability (NEC)".

Final paper submissions

Each final submission must be prepared based on the Simulation journal requirements (see the Author Guidelines for JDMS page).

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