We are pleased to announce that the NATO MODELING AND SIMULATION CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE is organizing:

the 12th annual MESAS 2025 Conference 
(MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS CONFERENCE), from 21-23 October 2025, in Istanbul (Turkey)

• MESAS’25 is a three-day scientific conference that will gather fully recognized experts from various domains, including the Military, Academia, and Industry.
• The conference aims to address the latest advances and challenges in autonomous systems and their applications in various fields exploiting the M&S.
• The conference is open to anyone who meets the conference’s objectives and conditions.

Call For Papers MESAS’25

Don’t miss the opportunity to present your work, research, and experiments in MESAS’25.

• MESAS’25 is now in the “Abstract Gathering Phase”.
• Because the Springers conference service system (EquinOCS) is being migrated to the new platform (Meteor), we will gather these abstracts via email in the first phase; please send an abstract with the authors’ names and contacts directly to the conference organizer’s email (mesas@unob.cz, mesas@mscoe.org).
• We will email you a confirmation within five working days.
• Springer’s new platform for collecting anonymized papers will be open later. We will send information on how to submit your paper NLT on June 21, 2025.
• The preliminary conference timeline was set as follows:

• • Abstract Submission:  June 20, 2025.  (Abstracts will be approved after submission, so, the work on a full paper can begin immediately after approval to save time and ensure the paper is turned in before the deadline).
  • Registration open:  June 20, 2025
  • Full Anonymized Papers Submission: August 15, 2025
  • Notification of Paper Acceptance:  August 22, 2025
  • Assignment of Reviewers: August 22, 2024
  • Review: until September 19, 2025
  • Committee Decision: until October 3, 2025
  • Registration closed: October 14, 2025
  • Program of the MESAS’25 Conference: until October 14, 2025
  • Submission of the presentation and a short CV of the presenter: until October 14, 2025
  • The MESAS’25 Conference:  October 21-23, 2025

If you are delayed in sending your abstract, paper, CV, or presentation, please contact us, and we will solve your problem individually.

Topics 

The following framework lists the traditional topics for MESAS.

AxS/AI in Context of Future Warfare and Security Environment (Concepts, Applications, Standards, etc.) 

• Autonomous Systems Strategy and Concept Development and Implementation in all Domains of Operation
• Advances in AI and its Impact on Future Operations
• The Role of the Robots and Foot Soldiers in the Future Operations
• Security, Use of AxS as Lethal Instruments, Safety of Aviation
• Ethical, Psychological, Legal and Operational Aspects, CIMIC
• Cyber Security (in the Context of AxS and their Applications)

M&S of Intelligent Systems – R&D and Application 

• Autonomous Tactical Behavior
• Math Modelling and Simulation of AI Tasks
• RT Issue and Reality Gaps in the Context of New AI Concepts, M&S of Future Operational Tasks
• Multi-robot Systems/Swarms, Benefits, Threats, and Challenges
• AI/machine-learning of the systems through M&S
• Distributed Control for Multi-robot Systems
• Robust Decision Making via Cooperative Estimation
• Relevant Concepts and Experiments
• Concepts and Visions of Future Warfare and Application
• M&S in Capability Evaluation of Robotic Swarms
• Co-simulation Tools for Multi-domain Analysis
• Effectiveness, Reliability, and Cyber-Security Issues

Future Challenges of Advanced M&S Technology 

• Key Challenges of Research and Development
• Capability Dev. in Context of Future Ops and Social Environment
• Man versus Computer, Advanced M&S Projects
• Future Technology and Impact on Society

Validation and verification process for Autonomous functions (V&V via M&S)

In Conclusion

We are looking forward to reading your abstract and scientific paper.  Let us encourage you and your colleagues to publish and present at the MESAS 2025 Conference. Please share this information within your/our community.
Thank you for your cooperation and support. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us via email: mesas@mscoe.org, mesas@unob.cz