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<span style="color:black">Dear Colleague:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">You might have done important work where you used simulation to conduct analysis and provide recommendations for potential solutions to a specific problem; or where simulation is the backbone of a commercial application enabling critical
use cases that you would like to share with others. But perhaps you do not have the time and resources required to submit a full paper and make early commitments to participate at the Winter Simulation Conference 2023.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">To support your commercially focused contributions, you are cordially invited to submit to WSC 2023 a 2-page Extended Abstract describing a “Commercial Case Study”. As in WSC 2022, case studies will not be kept in a separate track.
Rather, for all application-oriented topics (see below for the full list), presentations of case studies will be fully integrated into the respective full paper presentation tracks. This will enable WSC to not only feature more prominently exciting commercial
show cases illustrating the benefits that have been achieved with novel methodologies and solutions, but also to catalyze cross-fertilization much more effectively between Academia and Industry.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">An Extended Abstract should use the WSC Extended Abstract template for paper submission and describe the problem, the simulation methods used, the results, and the impact/benefits achieved. Those case studies selected for presentation
at WSC will have a summary appearing in the final program of WSC and on the WSC Archive website but will not be published elsewhere.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">WSC 2023 will be held from December 10 to 13 at the San Antonio Marriot Rivercenter in Texas, USA. Please note that WSC will be in-person only. There are no COVID-19 restrictions in place for travel to the United States, and noncitizen
nonimmigrant air passengers no longer need to show proof of being fully vaccinated with an accepted COVID-19 vaccine to board a flight to the United States.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">The Extended Abstract submission key dates are as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Immediately: Submission is open for Extended Abstracts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">August 4, 2023: Electronically submit 2-page Extended Abstracts using either LaTex or Microsoft Word
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://3449182.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/3449182/2023%20WSC%20Author%20Files/wsc2023_WordPosterExtendedAbstract.pdf">templates</a></span><span style="color:black">. Submissions must be made through the
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.wintersim.org/">WSC Website</a></span><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">September 1, 2023: Notification of acceptance to authors.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">September 15, 2023: Final Extended Abstracts due.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are looking forward to a great Winter Simulation Conference in Texas and hope you will be able to participate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Application Oriented Tracks</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Aviation Modeling and Analysis</span><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Complex and Resilient Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Data Science and Simulation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Environmental, Sustainability, and Resilience Applications</span><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Healthcare and Life Sciences Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Logistics, Supply Chains, Transportation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Manufacturing Applications and Industry 4.0</span><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Military and National Security Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Project Management and Construction</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Reliability Modeling and Simulation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Scientific Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Simulation as Digital Twin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Simulation and AI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">WSC 2023 Publicity Committee</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Caroline Krejci</b> University of Texas at Arlington<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Angel A. Juan</b> Universitat Politècnica de València<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Ek Peng Chew</b> National University of Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Sojung Kim</b> Dongguk University<o:p></o:p></p>
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