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Industrial Fluid Properties |
IFPSC |
Simulation Collective |
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General Rules
Submissions for the 2006 IFPSC are to be in the form of a
manuscript suitable for submission to a refereed, archival, scientific journal.
The manuscript must contain sufficient detail about the simulation or modeling
method (and about the force field, where relevant) so that an experienced
simulator could reproduce the results without requiring access to proprietary
information. In particular, all potential parameters and molecule geometry
parameters must be explicitly specified in the manuscript. A randomly selected
subset of the submitted predictions will be validated by the judges by
reproducing the reported calculations.
Results are to be reported in SI units.
An analysis of the uncertainty in the calculated results is required and must be
included in the manuscript.
Entries are expected to present results that are statistically significant and
to present sufficient supporting evidence to establish this quality.
The scientific reasoning behind any new (unpublished) force field
parameterizations or new modeling techniques must be clearly spelled out in the
entry.
If there is a consensus among the judges that an entry is of poor quality (uses
a method commonly accepted to be fundamentally flawed, presents results that are
not statistically significant, fails to provide sufficient supporting data and
details, violates the various rules and guidelines established for the
competition, or for any other reason would be unlikely to be accepted by any
peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field), that entry will be rejected and
will not be considered in the judging.
Entries that represent collaborations between multiple research groups are
welcomed.