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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">2015 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (SpringSim 2015)</span></strong></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);">April 12 - 15, 2015 | Washington, DC metro-area, USA</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></p>
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<h1 style="margin: 6pt 0in;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">We are pleased to announce the sixth year of the</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(147, 114, 49); font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.simaud.org/2015/" target="_blank">Symposium
on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD)</a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">at the 2015 Spring Simulation Conference. Researchers in simulation, architecture,
urban design, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, engineering, software development, education, and business who develop or use modeling, simulation, visualization, validation, or interaction techniques or tools related to the built environment
are invited to participate and present original full papers, short papers, and extended abstracts.</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(148, 54, 52);"></span></strong></h1>
<h1 style="margin: 6pt 0in;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">All submissions are peer-reviewed and considered for selection by the Committee. All accepted submissions will be published
in the ACM Digital Library. Additionally, any video or contributed data set accompanying an accepted submission will be featured on the SimAUD <a href="http://www.simaud.org/2015/" target="_blank">Website</a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">.
SimAUD is run collaboratively with ACM/SIGSIM and is sponsored by <i>The Society for Modeling and Simulation International</i>.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></h1>
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<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma;"><font color="#808080">Holly Samuelson | hsamuelson@gsd.harvard.edu</font></div>
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Those interested are encouraged to submit an abstract by September 12 and complete the submission by November 10, 2014. We look forward to seeing you in 2015 in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC!</font></div>
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