Provisional Programme

UKSIM 2003: CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SIMULATION 2003

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England.

 

9th – 11th April 2003

 

TUESDAY 8 April

 

PM: Arrival & Get together in Upper Hall

List of Delegates (If you are attending but your name is not shown contact me immediately david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk)

 

5pm-6.30pm: Registration, Coffee in Upper Hall

 

7.30 Hot Buffet in the Robert Gardner Room

 

WEDNESDAY 9 April

All sessions are in the Upper Hall

8.30am: Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

8.40-10.15pm Session-A: INVITED PAPERS

Chair: David Al-Dabass

DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING AS IMAGE GENERATION, Burghard Rieger. rieger@uni-trier.de.

 

IDENTIFICATION AND ROBUST CONTROL OF MODELS WITH PARAMETER INDEFINITE PROPERTIES Gang Zhu, KeHui Wei, Yong Yu. tory.hellfire@263.sina.com;

 

COFFEE

 

10.15am – 12.15pm Session-B: ANALYTICAL & STOCHASTIC MODELS

Chair: Khalid Al-Begain

SCALABILITY OF GARBAGE COLLECTION IN JAVA-BASED DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATORS, David Nicol.  nicol@cs.dartmouth.edu.

 

ANALYSIS OF RECRUITMENT TIME IN MULTICENTRE CLINICAL TRIALS WITH RANDOM ENROLLMENT, Vladdimir Anisimov, Valerii Fedorov, Byron Jones. Vladimir.V.Anisimov@gsk.com

 

PRODUCT FROM OVER COMPONENTS IN MARKOVIAN PROCESS ALGEBRA, Nigel Thomas. nigel.thomas@durham.ac.uk;

 

ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE M/G/K QUEUE, L. Breuer. breuer@info04.uni-trier.de

 

MAINTAINING DELAY CONSTRAINTS IN A DISCRETE-TIME QUEUE WITH BLOCKING, L. Guan, M. E. Woodward And I. U. Awan. L.Guan@Bradford.ac.uk;

 

LUNCH

 

1.15 – 3.30 pm Session-C: BUSINESS PROCESSES

Chair: Russell Cheng

 

INTEGRATION OF DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: BENEFITS AND THE WAY FORWARD, Vlatka Hlupic, Alexander Verbraeck, Gert-Jan de Vreede.  csstvvh@brunel.ac.uk;

 

SIMULATION TO DESIGN SUPPLY CHAINS: A CASE STUDY ON THE LOGISTIC STRUCTURES FOR THE BUILDING INDUSTRY, Mariëlle den Hengst. m.den.hengst@tbm.tudelft.nl;

 

BUSINESS PROCESS RENOVATION USING DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT, Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic, Andrej Kovacic, Vlatka Hlupic. vbosilj@efzg.hr.

 

INFORMATION SYSTEMS SIMULATION FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES, Julie Eatock And Alan Serrano. Alan.Edwin.Serrano-Rico@brunel.ac.uk

 

COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS ENGINEERING: LESSONS LEARNED, Mariëlle den Hengst. m.den.hengst@tbm.tudelft.nl;

 

TEA


 

3.45 – 5.30 pm Session-D: MOBILE NETWORKS

Chair: Evtim Peytchev

BLUETOOTH PHYSICAL LAYER SIMULATION, J.K. Pollard And N.P. Kontakos. j.pollard@ee.ucl.ac.uk

 

EFFICIENT NETWORK-LEVEL CALL ADMISSION CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR 3G NETWORKS, Aymen Zreikat and Khalid Al-Begain. A.I.Zreikat@Bradford.ac.uk.

 

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION OF THE IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOL, Xin Gang Wang, John Mellor, Khalid Al-Begain. X.G.Wang@Bradford.ac.uk;

 

AN AGENT BASED SIMULAITON OF CROWD MOVEMENT, Rocio Gomez And Jonathan Rowe.  J.E.Rowe@cs.bham.ac.uk;

 

7.30 Dinner in Hall

 

 


THURSDAY 10 April

 

 

8.30- 10.15am Session-E: OPTIMIZATION and OR

Chair: Richard Zobel

 

CONSTRAINED SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION, Ebert Brea & Russell C. H. Cheng, E.Brea@maths.soton.ac.uk;

 

THE DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION OF SURROUND SOUND DECODERS USING HEURISTIC METHODS, B. Wiggins, I. Paterson-Stephens, Val Lowndes &  S. Berry.  B.J.Wiggins@derby.ac.uk; S.Berry@derby.ac.uk, V.P.Lowndes@derby.ac.uk.

 

REVENUE MANAGEMENT FOR PERISHABLE PRODUCTS USING SIMULATION, Miguel F. Anjos, Russell C.H. Cheng & Christine S.M. Currie. c.s.m.currie@maths.soton.ac.uk,

 

THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ARRIVAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEM, A R Brentnall, R C H Cheng, A Drew, C N Potts, a.r.brentnall@maths.soton.ac.uk.

 

 

COFFEE

 

10.30 – 12.15 Session-F: AI TECHNIQUES

Chair: Russell Cheng

SIMULATING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR BY INTEGRATING AI TECHNIQUES, Agostino Bruzzone, Alessandra Orsoni, Matteo Brandolini. aorsoni@itim.unige.it

 

THE USE OF SIMULATION AND EMULATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECG RECORDER FOR USE IN HORSES, Garry Stanway & Richard N Zobel. garry.stanway@lineone.net.

 

FORGING-FORCE CONTROL MODELS USING SERVOMECANISM, A.Aravinthan , K.Sivayoganathan , D.Al-Dabass, V.Balendran. aravinthan.S/Oarumugam@ntu.ac.uk

 

A STUDY OF DEFECTS AND ERRORS IN GRAPHICS ALGORITHMS USING NEURAL NETWORKS, R.J. Cant And S.J.Sharp. Richard.cant@ntu.ac.uk

 

LUNCH

 

1.15 – 2.45 pm Session-G: TRANSPORT & CLUSTER COMPUTING

Chair: Joanna Hartley

 

Intelligent Transportation Systems and Visual Interactive On-Line Simulation as an essential tool for demand responsive mode of control, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Evtim Peytchev, Ludmil Mikhailov. ndm@co.umist.ac.uk

 

MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF HIERARCHICAL URBAN TRAFFIC CONTROL, L. Mikhailov, C. Harrison, N. Mehandjiev. l.mikhailov@co.umist.ac.uk;  ndm@co.umist.ac.uk

 

CENTERALISED AND DECENTRALISED SEVICE DISCOVERY ON A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK – A SIMULAITON STUDY, Konstantinos Zerfiridis and Helen Karatza. karatza@csd.auth.gr; zerf@csd.auth.gr;

 

 

3.00-7.00pm Cambridge Tour/free time

 

7.00pm pre-dinner drinks in the Harrods Room

7.30pm Conference Dinner in the Old Library


FRIDAY 11 April

 

 

8.45-10.30am Session-H: SCHEDULING & TRANSPORT

Chair: John Pollard

 

CO-SCHEDULING IN A PARALLEL SYSTEM UNDER TIME VARYING WORKLOAD, Helen D. Karatza. karatza@csd.auth.gr

 

A METHODOLOGY FOR ACCURATE LINK TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION, Evgeny Agafonov, A.Bargiela. evgeny.agafonov@ntu.ac.uk

 

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STOCHASTIC ‘LEAST-TIME’ PATH ALGORITHMS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NOTTINGHAM URBAN NETWORK, Theodora Polenta, Dr. Joanna K. Hartley. theodora.polenta@ntu.ac.uk;

 

TRAFFIC TELEMATIC COMPUTING FRAMEWORK BASED ON NON-LOCKING AND HOUSEKEEPING DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY ALGORITHM, Mohamed Khalil, Evtim Peytchev mohamed.khalil@ntu.ac.uk

 

 

COFFEE

 

10.45am – 12.30pm Session-I: INTERNET & TRANSPORT

Chair: Evtim Peytchev

USING SIMULAITON TO UNDERSTAND DYNAMIC CONNECTIVITY AT THE CORE OF THE INTERENET, David Nicol. nicol@cs.dartmouth.edu.

 

EFFICIENCY VS. CORRECTNESS OF A TRAVEL INFORMATION SYSTEM, Dr. Joanna K. Hartley.  joanna.hartley@ntu.ac.uk;

 

SIMULATION OF URBAN TRANSPORT BASED ON CLUSTER COMPUTING, Agathocles Gourgoulis, Dr. Gabor Terstyanzky, Prof. Peter Kacsuk, Prof. Stephen Winter.  agourg@cpc.wmin.ac.uk

 

AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO OPEN-ACCESS TRANSPORTATION TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS, Taha Osman And Evtim Peytchev.

 

12.30 CLOSE & LUNCH