The School of Computational Science & Engineering’s Richard Fujimoto took center stage in Washington, D.C. this week as the organizer of a major national modeling & simulation workshop.

Fujimoto, a Regents’ Professor, led the Workshop on Research Challenges in Modeling & Simulation for Engineering Complex Systems, Jan. 13-14 at the National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, Va. The workshop’s goal was to identify and build consensus around critical research challenges in the modeling and simulation field. Participation was by invitation only and included modeling & simulation from across the world.

“Although modeling and simulation has been an active area of study for some time, new developments are creating major new opportunities and challenges in the field,” Fujimoto said. “Hosting the workshop now was both timely and important for the modeling and simulation research community as well as the numerous fields that depend on our technologies and techniques.”

The workshop focused on five topic areas to generate challenges for modeling and simulation research including: conceptual modeling; computational methods; fidelity issues and uncertainty in modeling and simulation; model reuse, composition, and adaption; and selected applications benefiting from advances in modeling and simulation. The National Science Foundation, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Modeling & Simulation Coalition / National Training & Simulation Association sponsored the workshop.