Best paper award for the Modeling and Simulation track is sponsored by Springer Open. Extended versions of selected papers accepted in the track will be invited for publication in Special issues of Springer Cognitive Computation (http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559) (IF: 1.44) and Springer Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling journal (http://www.casmodeling.com). 

Track Co-chair(s): 

• Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
• Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
• Muaz Niazi, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

(a) Modeling and simulation paradigms
i. Discrete Event Simulation
ii. Network Simulation
iii. Agent-based Modeling
iv. Complex Network Modeling
v. Multiscale modeling
vi. Formal Specification-based Simulation Models
vii. Specification of Simulation and Modeling
viii. Verification & Validation of Models
ix. Other paradigms

(b) Modeling and Simulation applications
i. Big Data
ii. Computational Science
iii. Nano-communication networks
iv. Online social networks
v. Offline social networks
vi. Molecular Modeling
vii. Biochemistry
viii. Bioinformatics
ix. Computational Biology
x. Climate Modeling
xi. Quantum and classical Physics
xii. Multi-robot networks
xiii. Inter- and intra- vehicular networks
xiv. Applications for Computational Science
xv. Other applications