EUROSIM

FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN SIMULATION SOCIETIES

On May, 25th  2010 two lectures, given by prof. François E. Cellier, an outstanding scientist and worldwide known authority on the modelling and simulation area, were organised:

What Can World Models Tell Us About Our Future?Peak Oil and Global Warming looked at from the perspective of a modeler

More than 35 years have passed since Forrester and Meadows published their respective world models. Recently in the context of the ongoing discussions about Peak Oil and Global Warming, the world models of the past are suddenly looked at once more with increasing interest. The time is ripe for looking at the mentioned models once more while asking ourselves: What can world models tell us about our future? How can they help us prepare for the times to come?

Modeling Physical Systems Using Bond Graphs

Modeling is just another word for understanding. In order to truly understand how a physical system works, the knowledge about the system under study must be collected and organized in a meaningful way.  A methodology called Bond graphs is introduced that allows organization of knowledge about physical systems in a uniform and systematic form thus enabling the models development with less errors.

In order to operate successfully every flying school needs corresponding simulator and flying instructors.  So Adria Airways flying school bought a new fixed simulator with a visual display of the terrain and three configurations (for single- and twin-engine propeller aircraft as well as turboprop aircraft). The simulator is designed to train pilots for the following qualifications:

	Special Issue of SIMPRA journal from EUROSIM 2007 Ljubljana, the venue of EUROSIM 2007, Jose Maria Giron Sierra, Spain, plenary lecture in ERK 2006, Prof. Cellier (SCS) and prof. Zupančič (EUROSIM)

News SLOSIM August 2010

Two special sessions are being organised on MATHMOD09 conference by the members of SLOSIM as well as one plenary talk and tutorial: Discrete Event Simulation and Petri Nets in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The members of SLOSIM have been also very active as reviewers for the  MATHMOD09 conference.

In Dec.  2008, the following lectures from the field of modelling in mobile robotics were organised:

Prof. dr. Ivan Petrović, University of Zagreb: "Autonomous mobile robots navigation in unknown and dynamic indoor environments".

Marija Seder, University of Zagreb: "Dynamic window based approach to mobile robot motion control in the presence of moving obstacles".

Mišel Brezak, University of Zagreb: "Robust and accurate global vision system for real time tracking of multiple mobile robots".

On Nov. 27th 2008 a meeting of executive board of SLOSIM as well as general assembly took place on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. Our member, Prof. dr. Mojca Indihar-Štemberger had a lecture: Modelling and simulation of business processes.

Special issue of SIMPRA Journal edited by B. Zupančič and R. Karba with 20 contributions selected from EUROSIM07 congress was published in October 2008.

In the last period the members of SLOSIM participated in organisation of annual ERK08 conference in Portorož, Slovenia, from Sept. 29th to Oct. 1st. The society organised two sessions on modelling and simulations, while our members participated in the conference with 10 contributions.

ERK 2007 SLOSIM organized one simulation session at the traditional 16 th Electrotechnical and Computer Conference ERK in Sept. 2007 in Portorož, Slovenia.

EUROSIM 2007 www.eurosim2007.org  All activities in 2007 were devoted to the organisation of the EUROSIM 2007 Congress in Ljubljana, 9-13. Sept. Great success, 456 participants, 420 contributions from 42 countries, see brief report!

General Assembly On November 30^th 2006 general and election assembly was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. The reports about the previous election period and plans for the future were presented by the president and the treasurer. A new-old SLOSIM board for the next four-year period has been elected with R. Karba as president, L. Zlajpah as vice-president, A. Belič as secretary and M. Simčič as treasurer where also five members from different institutions were elected to become the members of the board.

Invited lecture about virtual simulations and visualizations of certain applicative examples (nuclear power plant, process systems, applications for army, …) was organised for the SLOSIM members.

SLOSIM home page http://www.slosim.si is carefully maintained.

Dissemination of information The prompt information about the news on the M&S areas in the world are regularly sent to the members.

Promotion of modelling and simulation The contribution about M&S area was published in Slovene journal Moj mikro.

SNE reports The contribution with the news about SLOSIM activities was sent to editor-in-chief of SNE.

ERK 2006 SLOSIM organized one simulation session at the traditional 15 th Electrotechnical and Computer Conference ERK in Sept. 2006 in Portorož, Slovenia. SLOSIM invited prof. Jose Maria Giron Sierra from Univesidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain for plenary lecture. His presentation was entitled: On many Roles of Simulation along Developments and Projects.

SLOSIM Executive Board Meeting took place in May 2006 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering where the past actions were presented to the members and also some new were planned.

MATHMOD 2006

• The vice president of SLOSIM dr. Leon Žlajpah presented an invited plenary lecture entitled: Simulation in Robotics.
• Prof. Borut Zupančič organized two sessions entitled: Modeling and SImulation for Control, Coordination, and Supervision.
• Prof. Drago Matko organized a session entitled: Mathematical Models in Cooperative Multiagent Systems.
• SLOSIM members chaired five sessions.Eleven contributions, presented by the SLOSIM members were included in the programme of MATHMOD 06.

Lectures for SLOSIM members. The lectures of two foreign experts, dr. Hector Chiacchiarini from Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and dr. Doris Saez from Santiago de Chile, Chile were organized in December 2005 for the members of SLOSIM.

Prof. Cellier invitation. During SCSC Conference in Philadelphia in July 2005 prof Francois Cellier, the president of SCS, accepted SLOSIM invitation to be the keynote speaker at the EUROSIM 2007 congress.

EUROSIM Board Meeting. On the meeting of the EUROSIM boards in September (on the EUROSIM 04 congress in Paris) prof. dr. Borut Zupančič was elected for the president of EUROSIM till the next EUROSIM congress (2007 in Ljubljana).

Leaflet EUROSIM07. The leaflet with preliminary information about the EUROSIM 07 congress was prepared and shared among EUROSIM 04 congress participants.

SLOSIM participation at EUROSIM'04, Septemeber 2004. SLOSIM members also participated with contributions in the programme of EUROSIM 04 congress

SLOSIM participation at ERK'04, Portorož, September 2004. As usually, SLOSIM organised a section on slovene conference ERK 04 from the area of modelling and simulation.

Presentation of modelling ad simulation in the weather forecast. As decided on the board meeting in April 2004, SLOSIM organized the presentation about the role of modelling ad simulation in the weather forecast on the Environmental Agency of Slovenia.

EUROSIM Exceutive Board Meeting, Novmeber 2004. SLOSIM organized a tour to world known Postojna cave and dinner for the members of EUROSIM executive board, which had meeting in November at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana

SLOSIM General Assembly, November 2004. In November, also general assembly of SLOSIM was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana, where the reports about the previous two years period and future plans were presented by the president and treasurer.

Tenth anniversary of SLOSIM foundation The tenth anniversary of SLOSIM establishment was celebrated with a small snack after Genaral assembly in November, 2004.

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