Aim of the CSM'2004 workshop

Professor Yoshikazu Sawaragi, Chairman of the Japan Institute of Systems Research (JISR) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (IIASA)   have been organizing since 1987 annual workshops in order to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners working on development and application of system analysis methods to model based analysis of complex problems. The workshops are aimed at reviewing advances in methodology and tools of system analysis applied to various practical problems.

The main topics of this series of workshops have gradually been changing from algorithmic aspects of model analysis, through topics of decision analysis and support, multi criteria decision analysis up to - recently dominating - analysis of complex systems for integrated policy assessment (you may want to click   here   for links to abstracts of related workshops held at IIASA since 1996).

Scope of the CSM'2004 workshop

The presentations at the CSM'2004 workshop are expected to cover the following areas:

Modeling life-cycle   (listed above as a container of problems) includes the following phases of modeling: designing or adapting a model; developing and verifying the necessary data; preparing or adapting tools (solvers) for the model analysis; developing or adapting interfaces between the model and the solvers; verifying and validating the model and solvers; analyzing the model, typically in a loop composed of designing and generating of a scenario, solving the model and analyzing solution results; developing, reporting and explaining findings/conclusions/policy implications; documenting the model, data development procedures, and model analysis methods; maintaining, updating, and improving these items for the duration of the study; and, finally, terminating the study with proper attention to archives that invite as much reuse as possible.

The organizers encourage presentations of very recent results, especially innovative methods, tools and applications relevant for analysis of either global or universal problems for which standard methods and tools of operations research do not offer a satisfactory solution.

Participation in the CSM'2004 workshop

Strong international participation is traditionally encouraged for this workshop so that participants can introduce and be introduced to various research perspectives and approaches in the above listed research and applications areas. As in previous years, we are counting on a strong delegation from Japan and we are also inviting leading researchers from other countries to present their methods, applications and tools. Additionally, this open invitation for preregistration is posted on the Web in order to reach those prospective participants who are not yet aware of this annual workshop. In this way, we hope that also in 2004 constructive discussions will be stimulated to benefit all participants and for the progress of the methodologies and tools for model-based analysis of complex systems and integrated policy assessment.

The number of participants of the workshop must be limited, therefore participation is by invitation only. The invitations for the workshop will be distributed before April 30, 2004 to authors of accepted presentations. It is likely that a number of persons who will preregister will exceed the maximum number of participants. In such a case preferences will be given to those who:

Therefore an extended   abstract   is a key element of the   preregistration.

There is no registration fee for participating in the CSM'2004 workshop. IIASA can provide moderate support for covering local expenses to participants who are not able to cover such costs from other sources. Only in exceptional cases will support be offered to participants from countries that are not members of IIASA. Unfortunately, no support can be provided for covering travel expenses.

Prospective participants are kindly requested to complete as soon as possible (but not later than April 15, 2004) the   preregistration   procedure which is composed of two elements:

The invitations for the workshop will be distributed before April 30, 2004 to authors of accepted presentations.


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