====== Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Structure Systems ======

Many systems are better represented by models with a dynamic structure/topology. Changes in system structure involve the modification of components' interactions and the addition/removal of components.

Examples of structure variant systems include adaptive computer architectures, self-configuring sensor networks and biological systems. The ability to mimic changes in system structure into model topology provides a powerful construct to obtain simpler descriptions of reality, enabling the representation of very complex systems.

We solicit original, previously unpublished papers offering new contributions in the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

  * **Methodology**
    * Discrete event, synchronous and hybrid dynamic structure M&S formalisms
    * Verification & validation of dynamic structure models
  * **Applications**
    * Reconfigurable computer architectures
    * Biological systems
    * Self-adaptive systems
    * Self-configuring sensor networks
    * Random networks
    * Adaptive software topologies
    * Adaptive algorithms
    * Manufacturing systems
    * Mobile agents
    * Dynamic structure cellular automata
====== Program Committee ====== 
      *Jean Filippi, University of Corsica, France
      *Jan Himmelspach, University of Rostock, Germany
      *Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
      *Pieter Mosterman, The MathWorks, USA
      * Thorsten Pawletta, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany
      *John Plaice, University of New South Wales, Australia
      *Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
      *Mamadou Traoré, Blaise Pascal University, France
      *Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Authors must strictly follow the general SCSC guidelines and instructions for authors (that can be found [[authors_instructions|here]]).

^ Key Dates ^^
| Special Sessions Proposals | January 31, 2010 |
| Paper submission | February 28, 2010 |
| Notification of Acceptance | April 30, 2010 |
| Final (in most cases, revised) submission | May 28, 2010 |