ESM2003, 9-11 June 2003

List of Accepted papers

 

Conference Schedule, Programme, photos

 

KEYNOTE PAPERS

 

KN-1: Function Approximation by Random Neural Networks with a Bounded Number of Layers

Erol Gelenbe, Zhi-Hong Mao and Yan-Da Li.......... 5

 

KN-2: Fast Learning Neural Nets with Adaptive Learning Styles (invited)

D Palmer-Brown, Sin Wee Lee, Jon Tepper and Chris Roadknight.......... 118

 

KN-3: Queueing Models for Mobile systems

Khalid Al-Begain

 

KN-4: Some Reminiscences on The History of Hardware and Software for Simulation 1963-2003

Richard N Zobel.......... 34

 

 

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

 

AI-1: An Improved Self-Tuning Mechanism of Fuzzy Control by Gradient Descent Method

Ahcene Habbi and Mimoun Zelmat.......... 43

 

AI-2: Inducing Parameters of a Decision Tree for Expert System Shell McESE by Genetic Algorithm

Ivan Bruha and F. Franek.......... 48

 

AI-3: SOMA applied to Optimum Work Roll Profile Selection in the hot rolling of wide steel

Lars Nolle and Ivan Zelinka.......... 53

 

AI-4: On Some Properties of Artificial Foraging Ant Communities

Juan de Lara and Manuel Alfonseca.......... 59

 

AI-5: Modelling Agents with UML, an Example in Building Security Evaluation

 Juan de Lara.......... 65

 

AI-6: Face Detection in Grey Images using Orientation Matching

Linlin Shen and Li Bai.......... 71

 

AI-7: Adaptive optimistic Synchronization for Multi-Agent Simulation

Michael Lees, Brian Logan and Georgios Theodoropoulos.......... 77

 

AI-8: On-Line Design of Robost Fuzzy-Logic Control Systems by Multi-Objective Evolutionary Methods

P. Stewart, D. Stone and P. Fleming.......... 83

 

AI-9: Factorized Distribution Algorithms: Selection without Selected Population

Robert Santana.......... 91

 

AI-10: A Markov network based Factorized Distribution Algorithm for Optimization

Robert Santana.......... 98

 

AI-11: Conflict Resolution by Random Estimated Costs

Roman Belavkin.......... 105

 

AI-12: Modelling Traffic Navigation Network With A Multi-Agent Platform

Thierry Huet, Taha Osman and Cyril Ray.......... 110

 

AI-14: Improving Artificial Neural Network Performance by using Temporal-Spectral Features for Agricultural Crop Classification

Carlos Antonio Oliveira Vieira, Paul Mather and Paul Aplin.......... 124

 

AI-15: Preliminary Artificial Neural Network Analysis Of Seldi Mass Spectrometry Data For The Classification Of Melanoma Tissue

Lee J Lancashire, Shahid Mian, Robert C Rees and Graham R Ball.......... 131

 

AI-16: Computer Mediated Communication and organisation Culture: An Agent-Based Simulation Model

Enrique Canessa and Rick Riolo.......... 136

 

AI-17: Novel Neural Network Methods For Describing Attributes Contained Within Lesions Images

S.G.Andrews.......... 142

 

AI-18: A Multiscale Method for Automated Inpainting

R.J.Cant and C.S.Langensiepen.......... 148

 

AI-19: Intelligent System Design for Knowledge Structure Models from Observed Data

Vladimir Stepashko and Tatiana Zvorygi…………………………………………………..603

 

AI-20: A Formel Language for Software Reuse

Zina Houhamdi.......... 154

 

 

ANALYTICAL & STOCHASTIC MODELLING TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS

 

AS-1: A Preconditioning method for Stochastic Automata Networks

Abderezak Touzene.......... 163

 

AS-2: Hierarchical Stochastic Activity Networks

M. Abdollahi Azgomi, Ali Movaghar.......... 169

 

AS-3: An Mx/G/1 Retrial Queue With Unreliable Server and Vacations

Amar Aissani.......... 174

 

AS-4: Exponentially Fast Monte Carlo Simulations for Non-Equilibrium Systems

Andriy Bandrivskyy, S. Beri, D. Luchinsky, R. Mannella and P. McClintock.......... 180

 

AS-5: Simulation Methodology For Assessing Mxran Architecture Performance

Anja Wiedemann, Peter Schefczik, Georgios Nikolaidis.......... 186

 

AS-6: A Characterization Of Product-Form Stationary Distributions For Queueing Systems In Random Environment

Antonis Economou.......... 193

 

AS-7: Spectral Efficiency Of MQAM Using Diversity Techniques

D. Alnsour, M. Al-Akaidi.......... 199

 

AS-8: Performance Of A Crossbar Network Using Markov Chains

D. Benazzouz,   A. Farah.......... 205

 

AS-9: MINSimulate – A Multistage Interconnection Network Simulator

Dietmar Tutsch and Marcus Brenner .......... 211

 

AS-10: Economic Reliability Forecasting in an Uncertain World

Ed Stocker and Joanne Bechta Dugan.......... 217

 

AS-11: A Monte Carlo Dispersion Analysis Of A Rocket Flight Simulation Software

F. Saghafi and M. Khalilidelshad.......... 222

 

AS-12: Interconnection Between Transmission Power and TCP Throughput Fairness in Wireless CDMA Networks

Laura Galluccio, A. Leonardi and G. Morabito.......... 229

 

AS-13: Transient Analysis of a Markov Modulated Fluid Queue with Linear Service Rate

L. Rabehasaina and B. Sericola.......... 234

 

AS-14: Stationary Analysis of Tandem Fluid Queues FED by Homogeneous on-off Sources

N. Barbot and B. Sericola.......... 239

 

AS-15: Product Form Over on-off Components in PEPA

Nigel Thomas.......... 245

 

AS-16: Approximate Solution of a class of Queuing Networks with Breakdowns

Nigel Thomas, D. Thornley and H. Zatschler.......... 251

 

AS-17: Functional Modelling and Performance Evaluation for two Class Diffserv Router using Stochastic Process Algebra

Abdelmalek Benzekri and Osman Salem.......... 257

 

AS-18: Impatient Service in a G-Network

P Bocharov, C. A’Apice and B. D’Auria.......... 263

 

AS-19: Study of Neighbourhood Search Operators for Unitation Functions

Roberto Santana.......... 272

 

AS-20: Random Summation and its Application to the Performance Modelling of Computer Systems

S. Frenkel.......... 278

 

AS-21: Refined TCP Performance Evaluation with Simple Modelling

Sophie Fortin-Parisi and Bruno Sericola.......... 284

 

AS-22: A Generalized Markovian Queue to model an Optical Packet Switching Multiplexer

Ram Chakka, Tien Van Do and Zsolt Pand.......... 290i

 

AS-23: Comparative Performance Evaluation of E-Commerce Technologies: A TPC-W-Based benchmarking Tool

Yussuf Abu Shaaban and Jane Hillston.......... 296

 

AS-24: Performance Modelling of Differential Services in 3G Mobile Networks

Irfan Awan and Khalid Al-Begain.......... 302

 

 

BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

 

BM-1: Forming Of Controlled Living Microenvironments

Alexander A. Amelkin.......... 311

 

BM-2: Biomechanical Simulation Of Human Lifting

B. Colobert, F. Multon, A. Cretual and P. Delamarche.......... 318

 

BM-3: Kinematic Simulation Of Handball Throwing

L. Fradet, R. Kulpa, B. Bideau, F. Multon and P. Delamarche.......... 323

 

BM-4: Stochastic And Strain-Weighted Simulations Of Cancellous Bone Remodelling: Simulation Rules And Parameters

G Sisias, C Dobson, R Phillips, M Fagan and C Langton.......... 329

 

BM-5: Modelling Populations Of Prokaryotic Cells: The N-Layered M-Rdg Approximation

G. Chliveros, M.A. Rodrigues and D.Cooper.......... 338

 

BM-6: Visualising Speciation in Models of Cichlid Fish

Ross Clement.......... 344

 

BM-7: Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis of the Water Flooding of Nature Park

Željko Jagnjić, Zdenko Tadić and Franjo Jović.......... 349

 

BM-8: Interactive Spline Modelling of Human Organs for Surgical Simulators

R.J. Tait, G. Schaefer, U. Kόhnapfe and H.K. Ηakmak.......... 355

 

 


HIGH PERFORMANCE & NETWORK SYSTEMS

  

HP-1: Designing a Distributed JVM on a Cluster

John Zigman and Ramesh Sankaranarayana.......... 363

 

HP-2: Load Balancing by Domain Decomposition: The Bounded Neighbours Approach

F. Baiardi, A. Bonotti, L. Ferrucci, L. Ricci and P. Mori.......... 371

 

HP-3: A Novel Redundant Data Update Algorithm for Fault-Tolerant Server-less Video-on-Demand Systems

T.K. Ho and Jack Y.B. Lee.......... 378

 

HP-4: Bandwidth Management in a Centralized Large Scale Dissemination Network - A Simulation Study

K. Zerfiridis and H. Karatza.......... 385

 

HP-5: Flow Control in Optimistic Simulation

Luiza Solomon and Carl Tropper.........

 

HP-6: A Theoretical Framework for Modelling and Simulating Security Protocols

Frantz Iwu and Richard Zobel.......... 391

 

HP-7: A Time Slicing Approach to External Workload Management on BSP Time Warp

Malcolm Yoke Hean Low.......... 397

 

HP-8: Central Issues and Classifications of Location Management Techniques in Wireless and Mobile Computing Systems

Seung-Yun Kim and Waleed W. Smari.......... 404

 

HP-9: Real Time Systems for Urban Modelling

C. Swift, K. Leinemann and G. Schaefer.......... 411

 

HP-10: Client Side Simulation Tool JSSim

Jaroslav Sklenar.......... 417

 

HP-11: Prediction of Link Travel Times in the Context of Nottingham’s Urban Road Network

Joanna K. Hartley.......... 423

 

HP-12: Tcp/Ip Connection Management Using A Real-Time Development Tool

Ann Gray, R. Whitelock, E. Peytchev And D. Al-Dabass………………………………….636

 

HP-13: Case Study Of 100% Test Coverage

J.C. Simner, J. Conway, T. Osman And D. Al-Dabass…………………………………….628

 

HP-14: CGI Control Of Remote Telecommunication Equipment

J.C. Simner, S. Beck, M. Wuwer, T. Osman And D. Al-Dabass…………………………..618

 

HP-15: 3rd Generation Technologies In Wireless Communication (invited)

Marwan Al-Akaidi

 

Performance Evaluation of Priority based Schedulers in the Internet

Lassaad Essafi and Gunter Bolch.......... 25

 

 

OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, VALIDATIONS-VERIFICATIONS & METHODOLOGIES

  

OR-1: Towards Composable Simulation:  Supporting the Design of Engine Assembly Lines

Andrew Winnell and John Ladbrook .......... 431

 

OR-2: Applying New Technologies to Automate and Support Complex Simulation Models for Oil Distribution in Brazil

Guilherme Jϊlio Barbosa and C. Limoeiro.......... 437

 

OR-3: On the Simulation of Queues with Pareto Service

P. Argibay-Losada, A. Suarez-Gonzalez, C. Lopez-Garcia, R. Rodriguez-Rubio, J. Lopez-Ardao and D. Teujeiro-Ruiz.......... 442

 

OR-4: Modelling Human Decision-Making

Stewart Robinson.......... 448

 

OR-5: A Simulation Model for Aircraft Maintenance in an Uncertain Operational Environment

Ville Mattila, Kai Virtanen and Tuomas Raivio.......... 456

 

OR-6: Verification Model Structures for Digital Systems Design

Sergey Frenkel.......... 462

 

OR-7: Accelarating Joint design: simulation building blocks  and process support

Edwin C.Valentin, JAco H. Appelman and Marielle den Hengst-Bruggeling…………………………………………………………………………………..644

 

OR-8: Visualizing the Creation of Dynamic Systems Simulations

Ryszard Tolwinski.......... 469

 

OR-9: Towards Collaborative Simulation Modelling: Improving Human-to-Human Interaction through Groupware

Simon J E Taylor, Stewart Robinson and John Ladbrook.......... 474

 

 

COMPLEX SYSTEMS

 

CS-1: Modelling of the Knowledge Dynamics of Students or Employees

A P Sviridov.......... 485

 

CS-2: Integrated Resource Scheduling and Simulation for Dynamic Logistic Management

Roberto Mosca, Agostino Bruzzone and Alessandra Orsoni.......... 491

 

CS-3: A Method for Generating Structurally Aligned Grids using A Level Set Approach

Alireza Sheikholeslami, Clements Heitzinger and Siegfried Selberherr.......... 496

 

CS-4: Performance Prototyping - Generating and Simulating a Distributed IT System from UML Models

Andreas Hennig, Anja Hentschel and James Tyck.......... 502

 

CS-5: From UML to Performance Measures – Simulative Performance Predictions of IT Systems using the Jboss Application Server with OMNET++

Andreas Hennig,, Dean Revill and Michael Ponitsch.......... 509

 

CS-6: Meta-Modelling of Data Flow Processes with ATOM 3

Andriy Levytskyy and Eugene J.H. Kerckhoffs.......... 514

 

CS-7: System Dynamic Simulating Modelling of Driving System "Anchor Windlass Driven by Asynchronous Motor" (BSVAM)

Ante Munitic, Mario Orsulic, Maja Krcum and Josko Dvornik.......... 520

 

CS-8: Modelling and Discrete-Event Simulation of Complex Systems using Rainbow

Angelo Furfaro, Libero Nigro and Francesco Pupo.......... 526

 

CS-9: Simulation of Self-Organizing Structures using Neuro-Mechanical Networks

Magnus Sethson, Petter Krus and Matts Karlsson.......... 532

 

CS-10: Rapid Prototyping of Human Interface Technologies using Simulation

Maria F. Grabovac, David A. Craven and James W. Meehan.......... 538

 

CS-11: Digital Audio Watermarking: Survey

Mikdam A. T. Alsalami and Marwan M. Al-Akaidi.......... 543

 

CS-12: An Audio Separation System Based on the Neural Ica Method

Michal Brαt and Miroslav Šnorek.......... 557

 

CS-13: Simulation Modelling of UML Software Architectures

S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla.......... 562

 

CS-14: Metamodels for Real-Time Control: an Automotive Design Study

Paul Stewart and P J Fleming.......... 568

 

CS-15: Sensor Information Fusion for the needs of Fault Diagnosis in Marine Diesel Engine Propulsion Plant

Radovan Antonic, Zoran Vukic and Ante Munitic.......... 574

 

CS-16: Deriving a Hybrid Algorithm to Solve Heat Flow Problems

S.Berry and V.Lowndes.......... 581

 

CS-17: Designing a Constant Work in Progress Production Control System

S.Berry and V.Lowndes.......... 585

 

CS-18: Fuzzy Modelling Applied to Jobshop Scheduling

V. Lowndes, J. M. Carter, M. H. Wu And S.Berry.......... 589

 

CS-19: Dime-II: A Computing Framework For Traffic Systems

Mohamed Khalil And Evtim Peytchev…………………………………………………

 

 

TUTORIALS

 

TU-1: The Modelling, Evaluation and Specification Language, version 2: MOSEL2

 

TU-2: