Tuesday 5 April

PM: Arrival & Get together

5pm-6.30pm: Registration

7.30 Reception & Hot Buffet

WEDNESDAY 6 April

9.00am: Welcome & Opening Remarks

9.15-10.00 am Session-A: KEYNOTE SPEAKER I

COST AND BENEFITS OF SIMULATION: AN INDUSTRIAL VIEW

Neil Bowerman

Chair: David Al-Dabass

10.00am COFFEE

 

10.30am – 12.15pm Session-B:  APPLICATIONS

Chair: Alessandra Orsoni

CASE STUDY: SIMULATION OF A THERMOELECTRIC COOLING UNIT

R.J. Cant, P. Sharman

 

A SIMULATOR PROPOSAL AS A DESIGN AID FOR WATER FEATURES

Richard N. Zobel

 

SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AND SENSORY INTEGRATION FOR MOBILE ROBOT TASK

C. K. Tan, K. Sivayoganathan, V. Balendran, David Al-Dabass

 

SIMULATION OF An INTELLIGENT MULTI  AGENT-BASED VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM

A.K. Srivastava

 

ADVANCED METHODS FOR TIME-VARYING AND NON-LINEAR PROCESSES USING FUZZY LOGIC

A.Hafaifa, F.  Laaouad

12.15pm LUNCH

1.15 – 3.15 pm Session-C: ALGORITHMS AND METHODOLOGIES

Chair: Richard Cant

INVESTIGATION OF MODELLING METHODOLOGY FOR CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS USING DISCRETE METHODS

Niels Stchedroff, Russell C.H. Cheng

 

A UML BASED METHODOLOGY FOR THE DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE SIMULATION MODELS

Voon Shiun Tey, Hossam S Ismail

 

EXPLOITING THE TECHNIQUE OF NEXT EVENT SIMULATION TO GENERATE ACCURATE HTML

Gaius Mulley, Werner Lemberg

 

IMPLEMENTATION OF HEAD LEADING ALGORITHM IN SIMULATION OF TRAFFIC IN PILSEN

David Hartman, Pavel Herout

 

REVIEW OF SHORTEST PATH(S) ALGORITHMS IN A TIME-DEPENDENT STOCHASTIC SCHEDULED TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

Qiujin Wu, Joanna Hartley, David Al-Dabass

 

3.15pm TEA

3.45 – 5.15pm Session-D: PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR NETWORKS

Chair: Khalid Al-Begain

AN IMPLEMENTATION OF BLAST OVER PEER-TO-PEER AND ITS PERFORMANCE VALIDATION THROUGH SIMULATION

Xinuo Chen, Stephen A. Jarvis, Guang Tan, Ligang He, Daniel P. Spooner, Graham R. Nudd

 

THE EVALUATION OF AN ACTIVE NETWORKING APPROACH TO IMPROVING THE TRAFFIC PROFILE OF DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Tatiana Balikhina, David Duce, Ali Maqousi, Frank Ball

 

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CONGESTION CONTROL FOR BURSTY INTERNET TRAFFIC

Asfand-E-Yar, M.E. Woodward,  I.Awan

 

PERFORMANCE MODELLING OF MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS 4G NETWORKS UNDER GPS SCHEME

Yue Li, Irfan A Wan, Demetres Kouvatsos

7.30 Dinner in Hall

THURSDAY 7 April

9 – 9.45 Session-E: KEYNOTE SPEAKER II

MODELLING THE TSUNAMI

Richard N. Zobel

Chair: Russell Cheng

9.45-10.15am COFFEE

10.15- 11.45 Session-F:  ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND HUMAN MODELS

Chair:  Russell Cheng

LOCAL AREA SHORT TERM FORECASTING OF WIND SPEED: A NEURAL COMPUTING MODEL

P Campbell, K Adamson

 

SCHEDULING SURGERY ROOMS VIA SIMULATION

Anna Sciomachen, Elena Tanfani, Angela Testi

 

MODELING AND SIMULATION FOR DRUG DESIGN EXPERIMENTS

Remus Campean, Augustin Prodan

 

A MODEL-BASED DECISION TOOL TO SUPPORT RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL ADDICTION

K.E.B. Thornton, A. Lazzarini

 

12 – 1pm Session-G: KEYNOTE SPEAKER III

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A SIMULATION, ILLUSTRATED BY CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXAMPLES

David Upton

Chair:  Alessandra Orsoni

1pm LUNCH

2.30-7.00pm Oxford Tour/free time

4.00: Committee Meeting

7.00pm Sherry Reception

7.30pm Conference Dinner

FRIDAY 8 April

9.00- 10.40am  Session-H:  DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Chair: John Pollard

HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION IN DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS

Mohamed Khalil, Evtim Peytchev

 

MEASUREMENTS BASED STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF SECURITY MEASURES ON THE OF IEEE802.11 NETWORKS

Paula Thomas, Khalid Al-Begain

 

PRIVATE UDDI REGISTRY MODELS FOR B2B WEB SERVICES.

Kumar Thakker, Taha Osman, David Al-Dabass

 

SIMULATION OF BLUETOOTH PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS: BLUEPANCOSTSIM

J.K. Pollard, X. He

 

10.40am COFFEE

11.10 – 12.30 Session-I:  MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION

Chair: Richard Zobel

SIMULATION OF 2D CUTTER PATHS FOR CNC MACHINES CONTROLLED BY STEPPER MOTORS

Clara Henrich, Janet F. Poliakoff, Paul A. Orton

 
TOWARDS A DSS FOR OUTSOURCING STRATEGIES IN  LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING
Romeo Bandinelli, Alessandra Orsoni  

 

USE OF EDGE MODELS TO GUIDE OPTIMAL 3D SCANNING

A. Denby, C. Langensiepen, J. Poliakoff, N. Sherkat

 

SIMULATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF 2D INTERPOLATION ALGORITHMS FOR STEPPER MOTORS

J.F. Poliakoff, Y.K. Chow, P.A. Orton, M. Howson

 

12.30 – 1pm Session-J: KEYNOTE SPEAKER IV

GRID COMPUTING IN THE BOX

Frank Zhigang Wang

Chair: David Al-Dabass

1.00pm CLOSE & LUNCH