The aim of the Symposium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry, government and non-government organisations to present research results and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for modelling and analysing complex systems and using knowledge management strategies, technology and systems in various domain areas, including economy, governance, health, biology, ecology, climate and poverty reduction, that address problems of sustainable development. Papers that present a synergistic approach that integrates modelling and knowledge management and/or illustrate realistic applications to sustainable development and make use of techniques such as simulation, visualisation, animation, nonlinear systems analysis, model-checking and inferential statistics are especially welcome.

Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic. These can either be normal or short papers. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated.

Synergistic approaches include

Paper Submission deadline:	20 June 2012 (CLOSED)
Accept/Reject Notification:	18 July 2012 (CLOSED)
Pre-proceedings Final version due:	8 September 2012 (CLOSED)
Post-proceedings Final version due:	20 October 2012

The one day symposium will feature one invited talk and contributed paper presentations. All contributions in the form of either full technical papers, between 12 and 16 pages, or short position papers, up to 6 pages, will undergo a peer-review process.

All papers should be written in English and prepared using the specific LNCS templates available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Papers must be submitted electronically through Easychair

Accepted regular papers and a selection of accepted short papers will be published after the Symposium by Springer in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), which will collect contributions to all workshops and symposia co-located with SEFM 2012 (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Symposium. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Symposium.

A special issue with selected papers may be planned, depending on the number and quality of submissions.

• Corrado Priami, COSBI, University of Trento, Italy
  Abstract | Biography

• Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR China
• Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University, UK

• Rajeev Bali, Coventry University, UK
• Roberto Barbuti, University of Pisa, Italy
• Thomas Anung Basuki, Parahyangan Catholic University, Italy
• Ettore Bolisani, University of Padua, Italy
• Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR China (Co-chair)
• Steve Culley, University of Bath, UK
• Simone D'Alessandro, University of Pisa, Italy
• Francesco De Angelis, University of Camerino, Italy
• Rocco De Nicola, IMT - Institutions Markets Technologies, Italy
• Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University, UK (Co-chair)
• Tatiana Gavrilova, St. Petersburg University, Russia
• David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge, UK
• Meliha Handzic, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Serbia
• Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Erik Johnston, Arizona State University, USA
• Ozan Kahramanogullari, COSBI, Italy
• Nicos Komninos, URENIO Research, Aristotle University of Tessaloniki, Greece
• Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
• Siu-Wai Leung, University of Macau, Macau SAR China
• Chris McMahon, University of Bath, UK
• Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy
• Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark
• Sandra Moffett, University of Ulster, UK
• Adegboyega Ojo, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR China
• Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute, USA
• Ion Petre, Abo Akademi University, Finland
• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
• Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University, UK
• Michael Sonnenschein, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Massimo Tavoni, FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy
• Hefeng Tong, ISTIC - Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, China
• José M. Viedma Martí, University of Catalonia, Spain
• Shaofa Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIAT, China

All inquiries should be sent to mokmasd-2012@iist.unu.edu