REPLY Separate Professional Conference (SD6294)

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Posted by  "Galan, Ricardo" <RICARDO.GALAN at saic.com>

I will agree with John Gunkler's email. 

I also have stopped attending the SD conference, because most of the work 
presented is very high-level and/or academic in nature. Additionally, 
attending this conference has become hard to justify to my employer, since 
the applied knowledge gained is small.

I believe the best solution is to add a "professional" track. Or maybe the 
solution should be to restructure the track in a way that fosters the 
submission of papers for "professional" applications.

I have been attending the Winter Simulation Conference, which has included a 
System Dynamics track (mostly with a "professional"/applied focus). The papers 
submitted at this conference include a variety from academic to applied topics. 

Keep up this great discussion.

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Ricardo Galan
Science Applications International Corporation
1710 SAIC Drive | MS 2-6-9 | McLean, VA 22102 
Posted by  "Galan, Ricardo" <RICARDO.GALAN at saic.com>
posting date  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:28:43 -0500