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UKSim2015
17th International Conference on
Modelling and Simulation
25 – 27 March 2015
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Words of thanks
• Conferences coming up
• This conference
Thanks are due to
• Authors, track teams and reviewers from all countries including (country
of 1st author): United Kingdom-29 (22.1%), India-19 (14.5%), Malaysia10 (7.6%), P.R. China-10 (7.6%), Pakistan-8 (6.1%), Saudi Arabia-6
(4.6%), Norway-4 (3.1%), Egypt, Jordan, Australia, Ghana: 4 each, Italy,
UAE, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Algeria, Vietnam, Iraq, South
Africa, Serbia: 2 each, Spain, Ireland, Georgia, Iran, Croatia, Nigeria,
Botswana, Denmark, USA, Taiwan, Austria, Kuwait: 1 each.
• EUROSIM and its national societies notably in Germany, Austria,
France, Italy, Greece, Hungary and Sweden for active support and
participation
• IEEE: UK & RI & chairman Prof Frank Wang for support and technical
sponsorship, Region 8 and Region 10 for supporting the event and
UKSim activities in general
• Asia Modelling and Simulation Section, UniMaP, UTM and other
Malaysian universities for active sponsorship and support.
Conferences Coming up this year
CICSyN2015: Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and
Networks, 3 – 5 June, Riga, Latvia, deadline 30 April 2014
CIMSim2015: Computational Intelligence, Modelling & Simulation, 27 - 29 July,
Kuantan, Malaysia, deadline 15 June
AMS2015: Asia Modelling Symposium, 7 - 9 September, Langkawi, Malaysia,
deadline 15 July
EMS2015: European Modelling Symposium, 6 – 8 October, Madrid, Spain,
deadline 15 August
ICAIET2015: International conference on Artificial Intelligence and application
in Engineering and Technology, 3 – 5 November, Pisa, Italy, deadline 15
September
AIMS2015: Artificial intelligence, Modelling 7 Simulation, 2 - 4 December, Kota
Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, deadline 15 October
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Pattern for the 3 days:
Refreshments: Old Library
Breakfast, Lunch, Evening Meals & Conference Dinner: Dining Hall
Parallel Sessions: Room A: here, B: Harrods (top floor), C: Green Room,
Ground floor,
4 Keynote speakers, 2 in day-1, and 1 in day-2 and 3.
Day-1 Today: full day, 3 parallel sessions, till 5.30pm
Prof Frank Wang and Prof Qiang Shen + 46 papers
7.00 Conference Dinner
Day-2 Presentations in morning only, 3 parallel sessions
Prof Harry Barrow + 18 papers
2.30 Cambridge tour (a must!!)
Day-3 Presentations in morning only, 3 parallel sessions
Dr Janos Janosy + 12 papers
Closing remarks in Auditorium, photo session, lunch
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Published Papers Statistics
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Papers published: 97
Scheduled for presentation: 4 keynote speakers and 80 papers
Published papers by track: most popular tracks:
21.U.Energy, Power, Transport, Logistics, Harbour, Shipping and Marine Simulation
11.K.Intelligent Systems and Applications
26.Z.Circuits, Sensors and Devices
19.S.Image, Speech and Signal Processing
24.X.Mobile/Ad hoc wireless networks, mobicast, sensor placement, target tracking
06.F.Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
08.H.Data and Semantic Mining
16.P.Robotics, Cybernetics, Engineering, Manufacturing and Control
22.V.Parallel, Distributed and Software Architectures and Systems
20.T.Industry, Business, Management, Human Factors and Social Issues
23.W.Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies
01.A.Neural Networks, 03.C.Evolutionary Computation, 09.I.Games, VR and
Visualization, 13.M.Systems Intelligence and Intelligence Systems, 15.O.e-Science and
e-Systems, 17.Q.Methodologies, Tools and Operations Research, 19.S1 Natural
Language Processing/Language Technologies: 2 papers each x 7 = 14
02.B.Fuzzy Systems, 10.J.Emergent Technologies, 14.N.Control of Intelligent Systems
and Control Intelligence, 18.R.Discrete Event and Real Time Systems, 25.Y.Performance
Engineering of Computer & Communication Systems: 1 paper each x 5
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Keynote Speaker-1: Professor Frank Wang
Computer Evolution over the Next Decade: Fact or Fiction?
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Fellow of British Computer Society
Chair in e-Science and Grid Computing
Head: School of Computing (formerly known as Computing Laboratory),
University of Kent, UK.
Director: Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High
Performance Computing Facility (CCHPCF), collaborative research facility
Universities of Cambridge and Cranfield, ~ £40 million.
Research interests: Future Computing, Green Computing (via memristor),
Grid/Cloud Computing, Biologically-inspired Computing, Quantum
Computing/Communication, Data Storage & Data Communication, and Data
Mining and Data Warehousing
Publication: book "Encyclopaedia of Grid Computing", 67+ journal papers
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopaedia of Grid Computing
Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Grid and High Performance
Computing.
on the Editorial Board of 4 other international journals.
Keynote Speaker-2: Prof Qiang Shen
Approximate Feature Selection in Data-Driven Systems Modelling
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PhD in Knowledge-Based Systems, DSc in Computational Intelligence.
Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at
Aberystwyth University, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a REF 2014
panel member for Computer Science and Informatics, and a long-serving
Associate Editor of two IEEE flagship Journals (IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics and on Fuzzy Systems).
Professor Shen has chaired and given keynotes at numerous international
conferences. His current research interests include: computational intelligence,
reasoning under uncertainty, pattern recognition, data mining, and their
applications for intelligent decision support (e.g., crime detection, consumer
profiling, systems monitoring, and medical diagnosis).
Authored 2 research monographs and over 320 peer-reviewed papers, including
an award-winning IEEE Outstanding Transactions paper.
Director of studies: > 40 PDRAs/PhDs, one UK Distinguished Dissertation Award
winner.
London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay torchbearer, carrying the Olympic torch in
celebration of the centenary of Alan Turing. The official nomination stated that
“Professor Shen, as a world-leading researcher in computational intelligence and
ambassador for computer science, would be a fitting tribute to Alan Turing, and
an inspiration to future generations of scientists and engineers.”
Keynote Speakers –3, Professor Harry Barrow
History of Computing and AI, a Personal Viewpoint
1965, BA in Maths+Physics, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College).
1966, MSc and 1969 PhD in Communication, Keele University, Department of
Communication. Research into the human sense of touch.
1969-75, Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence and Perception, Edinburgh University:
design, construction and prog’g Freddy 1 and 2 robot systems and on the versatile
assembly demonstration system for Freddy 2.
1975-80, Senior Computer Scientist, AI Center, Stanford Research Institute: vision in animals
& machines, automated photo-interpretation and cartography, JPL Mars rover
project.
1980-88 founder + 3: Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence lab in Palo Alto: VLSI design, expert
systems for diagnosing process problems, visual inspection of ICs, resource
allocation for automatic testers, automatically proving correctness of integrated
circuit designs, primate primary visual cortex self-organise’n.
1988-96 Prof of AI, School of Cognitive & CS, Sussex University: primate visual processing,
model to explain characteristics of the primary cortex, AI & neural networks app’n to
mineral exploration, weather forecasting, radar image sequences, x-ray
interpretation
1996-2007 Scientific Advisor, Schlumberger Cambridge Research: 3-D visualisation:
reservoirs, diagnosis of drilling and production problems, error-correcting codes,
navigation for downhole robots and interpretation of drilling rig logs as activities on
the rig.
2007- Officially retired: AI, vision, ANN, personal research and occasional consulting.
Keynote Speaker-4: Dr Janos Janosy
The Intelligent Electricity Network of the future: SmartGrid
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Consultant, Simulator Dev Dept, Atomic Energy Research Institute, Central
Research Institute for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KFKI
AEKI) since 1994.
Born 1949, Budapest; MSME Nuclear Eng’g, Moscow Eng’g Power Institute,
1973; MSEE in Process Control Computers, Budapest Technical University,
1976.
Worked in Secretariat, Ministry of Heavy Industry, Nuclear Power Plant
Construction 1973-75; Senior Researcher 1977 and Senior Adviser 2004.
Over 60 papers in international journals and conferences in: i) Nuclear Power
Plant Simulation-tors, ii) Environmental Protection & Radiation Monitoring
Systems.
Main interests: i) Numerical integration of stiff differential equation systems, ii)
Computerized process control systems - direct digital control of nuclear reactors,
iii) Process control - digital and analogue, iv) Modelling and simulation, v) Realtime simulation-tors, vi) Nuclear, fossil and renewable energy production &
Distribution
Projects: numerous: nuclear power, simulation-tors, energy, control
Married, 4 grandchildren, Ham Radio sign HA5GN
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Thank you and have a
good conference!!