American Modelica Conference 2024
The American Modelica Conference 2024 will be an in-person conference event, with an option to watch presentations streamed online for a reduced conference admission fee. The conference will take place at the University of Connecticut in Storrs in the Innovation Partnership Building from October 14–16, 2024. It is organized by NAMUG, the North American Modelica Users Group, in cooperation with the Modelica Association. Join us in person in Storrs or from the comfort of your own home.
Latest News and updates
The schedule, titles and abstracts for all workshops are now available: Workshops, and Workshop Registration is open as well.
The preliminary Agenda and the printed conference program are now online!
Survey
If you have been a participant, please fill out the survey, through this link: AMC 2024 Survey or via this QR-code:
Proceedings
A printable version of the conference proceedings (pdf, large at 20.6 MB!) is now online for download. You will have access to all papers in the conference as a single file. Single paper links will be added after the conference.
About the Conference
The Modelica Conference is the main event for users, library developers, tool vendors and language designers to share their knowledge and learn about the latest scientific and industrial progress related to Modelica, FMI, SSP, eFMI and DCP. The program will cover processes and tools for the modeling of complex physical and cyber-physical systems as applied to a wide range of research and industrial applications.
In addition to paper presentations, the conference features several Modelica tutorials for beginners and advanced users, as well as industrial user presentations, vendor sessions, and an exhibition. The previous American Modelica conference in 2022 was also streamed, giving many Modelicans in Europe the opportunity to watch presentations on the latest updates on Modelica-related research and innovation. In this version of the conference, we want to combine the ease of attendance by remote participants from other continents with the stimulating environment of an in person event with lively discussions in the breaks and an in-person conference dinner! Please note that full paper presentations are required to be in person, while industrial user presentations can be given remotely.
Workshops and Tutorials will be given on the afternoon of October 14th 2024, the keynotes, paper presentations and other parts of the program will be on October 15th and 16th.
In building on the successes of the previous American Modelica conference, we are also happy to announce a Student Best Paper competition. Additional details are available in the call for papers.
Our Sponsors
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The American Modelica Conference 2024 relies heavily on sponsors to maintain the affordability of the ticket prices. If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please check out the conditions at in our call for sponsors and contact us as soon as possible at modelicaNA2024@groups.liu.se. You can directly buy a sponsorship ticket at Eventbrite.
Keynote Speakers and Presentation Titles
We are proud to announce our keynote speakers and the titles of their presentations:
Tuesday, October 15th:
Swaminathan Gopalswamy, Director, Connected Autonomous Safe Technologies (CAST) Lab | |
Modeling, Simulation, and Autonomous Vehicles: the challenges and opportunities |
Wednesday, October 16th:
Clas A. Jacobson Senior Fellow, Systems Engineering at Carrier | |
Energy Urgency, Computation and Role of “Systems” Methods & Tools |
Registration and Accomodation
Registration is now open at Eventbrite. Please register soon to make planning easy for us. Early Bird tickets will be available until August 10th. If you need a hotel for the conference, we recommend the Graduate Hotel on the UCONN campus in waking distance to the conferene venue. You can reserve a room for a discounted room rate through this link. Other hotels are available in the vicinity, but are in 10-15 minutes of driving distance from the conference.
Scope of the Conference
Modelica is a freely available, equation-based, object-oriented language for convenient and efficient modeling of complex, multi-domain cyber-physical systems described by ordinary differential, difference and algebraic equations. The Modelica language and the companion Modelica Standard Library have been utilized in a variety of demanding industrial applications, including full vehicle dynamics, power systems, robotics, buildings and district energy systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulations and embedded control systems. The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) is an open standard for the tool-independent exchange of models and for co-simulation. It is supported by many Modelica and non-Modelica tools and is the key to utilizing Modelica models in non-Modelica environments.
Development in the Modelica Association is organized in Modelica Association Projects:
- LANG - Modelica Language
- LIB - Modelica Libraries
- FMI - Functional Mock-up Interface
- eFMI - Functional Mock-up Interface for embedded systems
- SSP - System Structure and Parameterization of Components for Virtual System Design
- DCP - Distributed Co-Simulation Protocol
These projects collaborate to design and maintain a set of coordinated standards for modeling and simulation of complex physical systems.
The Modelica conference will bring together people using Modelica and/or other Modelica Association standards for modeling, simulation, and control applications, such as Modelica language designers, tool vendors and library developers. The Modelica Conference provides Modelica users with the opportunity to stay informed about the latest language, library, and tool developments, and to get in touch with people working on similar modeling problems. The conference will cover topics such as the following:
- Multi-engineering modeling and simulation with free and commercial Modelica libraries (mechanics, electrical, hydraulics, thermal, fluid, media, chemical, building, automotive, aircraft, …)
- Automotive applications
- Thermodynamic and energy systems applications
- Mechatronics and robotics applications
- Medicine and biology applications
- Other industrial applications, such as electric drives, power systems, aerospace, etc.
- Large-scale system modeling
- Real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulation
- Simulation and code generation for embedded control systems
- Simulation acceleration by use of many CPU cores or GPU cores
- Applications of Modelica for optimization and optimal control
- Modelica modeling, simulation and design tools
- Symbolic algorithms and numerical methods for model transformation and simulation
- Discrete modeling techniques − FEM, CFD, DEM (Discrete Element Method), …
- New features of the Modelica language and of FMI
- Experimental language designs and implementations related to Modelica
- Modelica in other application areas (mathematical programming, databases etc.)
- Modelica for teaching and education
- FMI in Modelica and non-Modelica applications and tools
Call for papers, user presentations and tutorials
Please see the call for papers for details about paper submissions, and the calls for industrial user presentations, tutorials, and vendor presentations. Please look at the author instructions before submitting. The submission deadlines are as follows:
- June 15, 2024 Submission of full papers
- June 1, 2024 Submission of extended abstracts for presentation-only contributions, workshops and tutorials
- August 10, 2024 Notification of acceptance for papers and presentations
- August 30th, 2024 Submission of final papers and one-page abstracts
- October 7th, 2024 Submission of final presentations
Sponsorship opportunities
The American Modelica conference will be your opportunity to meet your customers again in a personal setting, at a great location. Please stay tuned for details about our sponsorship opportunities, we will post them here in the near future. Note that all sponsors will have the opportunity to exhibit at the conference, and that we don’t offer a separate way to exhibit at the conference.
Organization and Contact
The conference is organized by NAMUG in cooperation with the Modelica Association.
For general questions, please send an email to: modelicaNA2024@groups.liu.se
Conference Board
- Conference Co-Chair Dr. Michael Tiller, Juliahub
- Conference Co-Chair Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon
- Local Co-Chair Prof. George Bollas, University of Connecticut
- Program Chair Prof. Luigi Vanfretti, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute
- Program Chair Dr. Michael Wetter,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Conference Excecutive Coordinator Dr. Christopher Laughman, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
- Behnam Afsharpoya, Dassault Systemes