St Catharine's College, Cambridge, England.
7th-9th April 1999
TUESDAY 6 April
PM: Arrival & Get together:
List of Delegates (If your name is not shown but you are attending contact me immediately dad@doc.ntu.ac.uk)7.00 Reception & Dinner
WEDNESDAY 7 April
9am-10.30am: Registration, Coffee, Exhibition, Tourist Information Desk.
10.30am: Welcome & Opening Remarks, Russell Cheng/
David Al-Dabass (see Preface)10.40-11.10am INVITED PAPER: "
Current & New Developments in Modelling & Simulation in Europe", Richard Zobel, University of Manchester.11.10-12.25am Session-A: SIMULATION HARDWARE & ROBOTICS
Chair: Richard Zobel.
"Designing Motion Systems for Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation", Jeff L. Page & Kenneth E. Willis, jeff-l-page@worldnet.att.net
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Performance Evaluation of Chained Declustering Strategies for Disk Array Systems", Carlos Norberto Fischer, cfischer@demac.igce.unesp.br."
Simulation and Robot Calibration", Siva Sivayoganathan siva.sivayoganathan@ntu.ac.uk, and David Al-Dabass dad@doc.ntu.ac.uk12.25-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.45pm Session-B: VISUAL & TRAINING SIMULATORS
Chair: Russell Cheng
"Review of the Evaluation of Flight Simulator Visuals by Neural Networks", Richard Cant and Adrian Cook, rcc@doc.ntu.ac.uk.
"Automatic Generation of Flight Simulator Databases", Richard Cant and Kevin Jarvis, rcc@doc.ntu.ac.uk.
"The Application of Training Simulators in the Process Industries", Gary J Gray, grayg2@bp.com
2.45-4pm Session-C: SIMULATION IN NAVAL TRAINING
Chair: Alan Stevens,
astevens@RRMP.demon.co.uk"
Simulating Reactor Dynamics", Mark Gale & Alex Thompson, Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, HMS SULTAN, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3BY."
Simulation and Training", Tom Mayfield, Rolls-Royce Marine Power, Derby."
The DNST Basic Principles Reactor Simulator", Alex Thompson & Mark Gale, Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, HMS SULTAN, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3BY.4pm-4.15pm Tea
4.15-4.45pm INVITED PAPER: "Parallel Algorithms in Computer Simulation", David Evans, The Nottingham Trent University.
4.45-5.35pm Session-D: SIMULATION & PARALLEL SYSTEMS
Chair: David Evans.
"Methods of Batch Means in Simulation Output Analysis under Multiple Replication in Parallel", Edjair Mota, Adam Wolisz and Krzysztof Pawlikowski, mota@ft.ee.TU-Berlin.DE.
"Extensions to Time Warp Parallel Simulation for Spatial Decomposed Applications", Benno J. Overeinder and Peter M. A. Sloot, bjo@wins.uva.nl
7.00 Dinner
THURSDAY 8 April
8.35-10.15am Session-E: SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES FOR OR
Chair: Stewart Robinson.
"Stochastic Sequential Bifurcation: Practical Issues", Russell Cheng and Wayne Holland.
"Simulating Healthcare Systems for Problem Understanding: the ABC Trial Example", Tillal Eldabi and Ray J. Paul, Brunel University.
"Methods and benefits of simplification in discrete event simulation", Roger Brooks and Andrew Tobias, Lancaster University, Birmingham University.
"Combining the Best of the Two: An Activity Cycle Diagram/Condition Specification Approach", Leonardo Chwif, Marcos Ribeiro, Pereira Barreto and Ray J. Paul, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. and Brunel University, UK.
10.15-11.30 Session-F: SIMULATION IN OR & BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Chair: Vlatka Hlupic
"Concepts of simulation quality", Stewart Robinson, University of Warwick, orssr@razor.wbs.warwick.ac.uk.
"Simulation and the Web", Peter Ball, p.d.ball@dmem.strath.ac.uk
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Business Process Redesign in Management Games", Rommert J. Casimir, casimir@kub.nl.11.30-11.45am Coffee
11.45-1pm Session-G: SIMULATION & MODELLING OF BUSSINESS PROCESSES
Chair: Stewart Robinson
"A Case Study on Integrating Business and Network Simulation for Business Process Redesign", Julie Eatock, Alan Serrano, George M. Giaglis, Ray J. Paul, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University.
"Integrated Simulation of Business Processes and Information Systems", George M. Giaglis, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University.
"Approaches to Business Process Modelling and Simulation", Nuno Melão and Michael Pidd, Department of Management Science, The Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK.
1-2pm Lunch
2-2.30pm INVITED PAPER: "The Influence of Software Defects on Simulations", Les Hatton, Oak Computing.
2.30-3.45pm Session-H: EDUCATION & TRAINING
Chair: Gwyn Jones.
"Simulation, Education and Training - The relationship between Higher Education and the Workplace", Karen J. Fryer, kif@wfsoftware.co.uk and Jeremy Garnett.
"RISCSIM: A Simulator for Object based Systems", Linington, Peter, P.F.Linington@ukc.ac.uk.
"An authoring tool for education based on multimedia and simulation", I. Bottemanne, F. Hausman, T. Proychev, A. Roucoux and J. Lefèvre, botteman@nefy.ucl.ac.be, j.lefevre@lails1.ec-lille.fr
3.45-7.30pm Cambridge Tour/free time
7.30pm Conference Dinner & after dinner speaker
FRIDAY 9 April
9-10.40am Session-I: SIMULATION IN CONTROL & DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Chair: Deitmar Moller
"Modelling and Simulation of a new Combined Block-Oriented Micro-Architecture Model for Controllers in Responsive Systems", Christian Siemers, Dietmar P.F. Möller, and Sybille Siemers, siemers@fh-westkueste. dietmar.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de.
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Modelling and Simulation of new Biological Wastewater Treatment Plants", J. Jungblut, D.P.F. Möller jungblut@informatik.tu-clausthal.de, dietmar.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de."Virtual Reality: A Methodology for Modeling and Simulation Of Combined Dynamical Systems", Dietmar P. F. Möller, Björn Kesper,
moeller@informatik.tu-clausthal.de, d.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de."
Simulation of Three Parameter Estimation Algorithms", David Al-Dabass dad@doc.ntu.ac.uk, and Abdalla Zreiba zab@doc.ntu.ac.uk, David Evans & Sivayoganathan siva.sivayoganathan@ntu.ac.uk.
10.40-10.55am Coffee
10.55-12.10 Session-J: SIMULATION IN BIOMEDICINE
Chair: Jacques LeFevre
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Model reduction for complex physiologically-based drug models", Mahdi Mahfouf, Derek Linkens and Dingyu Xue (Sheffield University)."Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in Cardiac Muscle", Jacques LeFevre.
12.10-1.25pm Session-K: SIMULATION & DISTRBIUTED SYSTEMS
Chair: Robert Pooley
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Network Simulation and an Application on the Study of Telemetry Data Networks", T. Kontogiannis, C. Nomikos, I. Stavrakas, A. Tomaras, tkonto@ee.teiath.gr, cnomicos@ee.teiath.gr, stavrakas@ee.teiath.gr, atom@cs.teiath.gr"
Towards a Categorisation of Advanced Distributed Simulations for Data Collection Strategies", Pauline A. Wilcox and Albert G. Burger, and Peter Hoare, P.A.Wilcox@hw.ac.uk, A.G.Burger@hw.ac.uk, peteh@signal.dera.gov.uk.1.25pm Close & Lunch.