8th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Organisation: UKSIM (United Kingdom Simulation Society)

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom 10-12 September 2013

Total papers submitted: 158, Accepted: 137, Published: 109

Committee

EuroSim President: Khalid Al-Begain

Congress Chair: Alessandra Orsoni
Congress Co-Chair: Khalid Al-Begain

Programme Chair: Richard Cant
Programme Co-Chair: David Al-Dabass

Exhibition  Chair: Richard Zobel
Exhibition Co- Chair: Glenn Jenkins

Publication Chair: David Al-Dabass

Congress tracks

01. Neural Networks
02. Fuzzy Systems
03. Evolutionary Computation
04. Autonomous Mental Development
05. Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
06. Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
07. Computational Finance and Economics
08. Data and Semantic Mining
09. Games, VR and Visualization
10. Emergent Technologies
11. Intelligent Systems and Applications
12. Hybrid and Soft Computing
13. Systems Intelligence and Intelligence Systems
14. Control of Intelligent Systems and Control Intelligence
15. e-Science and e-Systems
16. Robotics, Cybernetics, Engineering, Manufacturing and Control
17. Methodologies, Tools and Operations Research
18. Discrete Event and Real Time Systems
19. Image, Speech and Signal Processing
20. Industry, Business, Management, Human Factors and Social Issues
21. Energy, Power, Transport, Logistics, Harbour, Shipping and Marine Simulation
22. Parallel, Distributed and Software Architectures and Systems
23. Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies
24. Mobile/Ad hoc wireless networks, mobicast, sensor placement, target tracking
25. Performance Engineering of Computer & Communication Systems
26. Circuits, Sensors and Devices
27. Computer Art
XX Posters

Invited lectures and tutorials

Keynote Lecture-1

Weibo Gong: Simulating the Concept Abstraction Mechanism in Brain for Image Retrieval

Keynote Lecture-2

Aleš Belič: Modelling of Metabolic Processes: Bridging the Gap between Data and Process Understanding

Keynote Lecture-3

Jun Wang: The State of the Art of Neurodynamic Optimization – Past, Present and Future

Keynote Lecture-4

David J. Murray-Smith: Looking at Problems the Other Way Round: Engineering Applications of Inverse Simulation Based on Continuous System Simulation Methods

Industrial Tutorial-1

David Buxton: Getting Started With AnyLogic and Multimethod Simulation Modeling

Industrial Tutorial-2

Chris Wyat: What is Intelli-Plan?

Keynote Tutorial

David J. Murray-Smith: Methods for Testing and Validation of Simulation Models for Engineering Applications