Integrated Assessment and/or Decision
Support Systems
Water Resource Assessment and Management
Mitigation of Natural Disasters inc. forest fires,
floods, droughts, storm surges, coastal erosion,
deforestation
Regional development and sustainability
Global change impacts

Natural Systems Modelling
Ecosystems
Oceanography
Global, Climate and Atmospheric changes
Surface and Subsurface Hydrology and Water
Quality
Molecular Simulation and Nanotechnology

Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Management
Draught and Erosion Management
Indigenous Agriculture
Aquatic Science for Fisheries
Agriculture and Environmental Interactions

Industrial Systems Modeling
Manufacturing, production systems and processes
Supply chain & Logistics
Reengineering of business processes
Business and Tourism
E-business processes and CRM

Economic Modeling and Resource Management
Socio-Economic Systems, Demography
Econometrics, Economics, Statistics, Finance, Risk
and Uncertainty
Business and Financial Systems Modeling
Business simulation/Management Games

Service Systems
Service and administrative systems
Healthcare systems
Public sector processes
Medical Research, Public Health and
Epidemiology
Security

Advanced Computing
Distributed simulation
Parallel simulation and GRID computing
Evolutionary computing
Virtual reality

Integrating frameworks/methods
Bayesian belief and Bayesian decision networks
Participatory processes
Interdisciplinary team building

Simulation standards and simulation languages
New tools & approaches
Educational and training approaches
Case studies and curricula
Lessons learned

Recent developments in simulation and
modeling
Statistical analysis of simulation
Web- and component-based simulation
Verification and validation
Simulation life-cycle evolution
Simulation in collaboration environments
Artificial intelligence algorithms