It has members from large French companies and members of Belgian and French universities. A large community of researchers interested in discrete event simulation exists in France.
Simulation is used and studied both by academic institutions and by industrial companies.
F-63175 Aubiere, Cedex, France. It has also produced a document for the evaluation of modelling and simulation software which was published in the Eurosim 1995 Congress in Vienna. The pole is presently reorienting its work towards the organisation of one day workshops on specific subjects. It had organised in April 1999 BioMedSim'99, a conference on modelling and simulation in medicine and biology. This conference has led to the selection of several papers to appear in a special issue of Simpra.