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Sheffield, United Kingdom, 29 April – 1 May 2014

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Keynote & Tutorial Speakers

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Paper Submission:

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Continuous as reviews are completed, it starts on: 1 March 2014

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Conference Chairs:

Osman Tokhi,

Sheffield University

Ajantha Herath, UoB

Zuwairie Ibrahim, UMP

Athanasios Pantelous

  Liverpool University

Programme Chairs:

Ismail Saad, UMS

Alessandra Orsoni

    Kingston University

Local Arrangements Committee:

TBA

Honorary/Advisory Chairs/Committee:

Mahdi Mahfouf,

Sheffield University

H.E Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed Janahi

Dr. Sadeq Al Alawi

Prof. Isa Qambar

Dr. Yosif Al Bastaki

Prof. Nadir Al Basktaki

Dr. Hesham Al Ammal

Dr. Mohamed Baqer

Dr. Khalid Al Mutawa

Dr. Ali Al Sufi

Dr. Esra Wali

Dr. Mazen Ali

Dr. Luisella Balbis

Dr. Ajantha Herath

Mrs. Anwaar Abdulla

Mr. Abdul Rahman Al Rawi

Mrs. Lilibeth Serencio

Mrs. Khawala Albinali

Prof Agostino Bruzzone

McLeod Institute of Simulation Science - Genoa Director

General Chair:

David Al-Dabass

General Co-Chair:

Ajith Abraham

Presenters/Session chairs & their duties

Program of papers to be presented

CD/ISBN and ToC/Page-numbers

Papers to be published

Opening Session

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Paper submission CLOSED Deadline: 25 March 2014 (EDAS stays open for few more days for late papers).

Use template below to format your paper:

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PDF template (PDF format)

Latex template (Latex format)

CD Label (ISBN)

ToC (page numbers)

Scheduled papers

Registration Fee (by 20 March) payment instructions

Papers are invited on any aspect of informatics in systems science, engineering and technology and their interaction with mathematical modelling and computer simulation. Particularly welcome are papers presenting original unpublished work validated by experimentation, simulation or analysis with application and practical focus from both industry and academy, duly documenting lessons learnt from test-beds, field trials or real deployments. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system at http://edas.info.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (up to 20 pages, one extra page minimum on the conference paper and different title) for publication in the International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, IJSSST (http://ijssst.info). The event provides authors with an outstanding opportunity for networking and presenting their work at a top quality international conference.

The conference will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Informatics for systems science, technology & engineering

- Intelligent Systems and machine intelligence

- Hybrid Soft Computing

- Methodologies, Tools and Operations Research

- Bio-informatics and Bio-Medical Simulation

- Discrete Event and Real Time Systems

- Image, Speech and Signal Processing

- Industry, Business and Management   

- Human Factors and Social Issues

 -  Engineering, Manufacturing and Control

- Energy, Power Generation and Distribution 

- Transport, Logistics, Harbour, Shipping and Marine Simulation

- Virtual Reality, Visualization and Computer Games

- Parallel and Distributed Architectures and Systems

 - Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies

 - Mobile/Ad hoc wireless networks, mobicast, sensor placement, target tracking

- Performance Engineering of Computer & Communication Systems

- Circuits, Sensors and Devices

Applications: systems informatics in aerospace, remote sensing, wireless communication, stochastic models of intelligence and their simulation, electronic circuits and systems, communication and networks, management, finance, games, war/conflict/rebellion modelling, cognitive functions, semantics modelling/ dynamics, manufacturing; robotics, state prediction, system identification and parameter estimation, measurement, monitoring, safety critica1 systems, military systems. 

Exhibitors: manufacturers of software and hardware, publishers, etc., are invited to apply to exhibit their products.

 SIMS2014 is organised and sponsored by UK Simulation Society/Asia Modelling and Simulation Section, and Technically-Co-Sponsored by IEEE R8. Patrons, Promoters and supporters of the conference include: University of Sheffield, University of Malaysia in Perlis (UniMaP), University of Malaysia in  Sabah, University of Malaysia in Pahang, University of Technology Malaysia, Nottingham Trent University, EUROSIM and European Council for Modelling & Simulation.

Submission Guidelines

You are invited to submit:
- full paper of 6 pages for oral presentation, see template,

- proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop.

Submissions must be original, unpublished work containing new and interesting results that demonstrate current research in all areas of systems informatics with emphasis on machine intelligence, their mathematical modelling, computer simulation and applications in science, technology, business and commerce.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS, in PDF or Word format. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees of the international program committee.

Paper Submission: SIMS2014 is using EDAS for submission and registration, authors need to:

- create an account with EDAS by clicking on the link below

- open the list of conferences managed by EDAS & find SIMS2014

- click on Submit button on the right to enter your paper title & abstract

- upload file.

Click here to submit paper

Author Kit will be emailed to authors individually upon acceptance of their papers.

Paper Templates:

Word template (MS Word .doc format)

PDF template (PDF format)

Latex template (Latex format)

Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science and Technology: ijssst.info.

Conference website: http://sims2014.info  

IPC

Kai Juslin (SIMS)

Esko Juuso (SIMS)

Khalid Al-Begain (UKSim)

Gaius Mulley (UKsim)

Miroslav Snorek (CSSS)

Andras Javor (HSS)

Franco Maceri (ISCS)

Peter Schwartz (ASIM)

Patrick Wang (UK)

Eduard Babulak (Canada)

Charles Patchett (BAE, Warton)

Richard Zobel (UKSim)

Nitin Nitin (India)

Kenneth Nwizege (Nigeria)

Hosam Faiq (Malaysia)

Kambiz Badie (Iran)

Ladan Momeni (Iran)

Henri Pierreval (FRANCOSIM) Yuri Merkuryev (LSS)

Gaby Neumann (ASIM)

Mikulas Alexik (CSSS, EUROSIM President)

Agostino Bruzzone (Liophant, Italy)

Borut Zupancic (SLOSIM)

Orlando Toscanelli (Italy)

Igor Skrjanc (SLOSIM)

Li-Pei Wong (Singapore)

Wan Hussain bin Wan Ishak (Malaysia)

Marco Vannucci (Italy)

Marek Ogiela (Poland)

David Murray-Smith (UKSim)

Valentina Colla  (Italy)

Mahdi Mahfouf (UKSim)

Emelio Jimenez Macias (SPAIN)

Silvia Cateni (Italy)

Alessandra Orsoni (UKSim)

Vlatko Ceric (CROSSIM)

Arijit Bhattacharya (UKSim)

Arshin Rezazadeh (Iran)

Russell Cheng (UKSim)

Ajith Abraham (Norway)

Terrence Fernando (UK)

Athanasios Pantelous (UK)

Kusum Deep (India)

Atulya Nagar (UK)

Khaled Shaalan (UAE)

Hussam Tawfik (UK)

P. Thangavel (India)

Abir Hussain (UK)

Dhiya Al-Jumeily (UK)

K.G. Subramanian (Malaysia)

Gurvinder Singh-Baicher (UK)

Lilia Kakaradova (UAE)

Miguel Angel Piera (Spain)

Antonio Guasch (Spain)

David Al-Dabass (UKSim)

Jadranka Bozikov (CROSSIM)

Richard Cant (UKSim)

Felix Breitenecker (ASIM, SNE)

Siegfried Wassertheurer (ASIM)

Wolfgang Wiechert (ASIM)

S. Wassertheurer (ASIM)

Janos Sebestyen-Janosy (HSS)

Olaf Ruhle (ASIM)

Yong Fan (USA)

Marius Radulescu (ROMSIM)

Leon Bobrowski (PSCS)

Mojca Indihar Stemberger (Slovenia)

Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic (Croatia)

Roland Wertz (Germany)
Fabian Böttinger (Germany)
Nikolaos V. Karadimas (Greece)

Piers Campbell (UAE)
Marco Remondino (Italy)

Fabian Böttinger (Germany)

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Registration: Only one method of payment is available on EDAS:

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Here is the procedure:

1. go to EDAS at http://edas.info and click on Register yellow tab at the top, a list of conferences will appear

2. Scroll down to conference name (e.g. SIMS2014) line and click on the extreme right green money symbol at the end of this line, a new page will appear

3. click on the extreme right button (Trolley symbol) after USD $595, a new table will immediately appear under a new line “Registered, but no paid”.

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5. A new page will appear, enter all card details, scroll down to the bottom and click Pay for Registration

6. REMEMBER: NO payment received by the set deadline means your paper will NOT be in the Proceedings.

If you have problems meeting this deadline email david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk immediately.

Best wishes and look forward to meeting you at the conference.

Conference Chairs.

SIMS2014, Program at a Glance, 29 April – 1 May 2014, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Conference Venue: Halifax Hall, Endcliffe Vale Rd, Sheffield, S10 3ER

Session Chairs & Co-Chairs are urgently needed, kindly email david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk ASAP

Session Chairs on Standby :  Adnan Cheema, Tue.pm1 and Wed.pm1.

Last minute cancellation: S2

Last minute additions: SS2

No papers in tracks D, E

No papers in tracks H

No papers in tracks J

 No papers in tracks L, M, N,

No papers in tracks Q, R

No papers in tracks T

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List of Published papers

Keynote Speaker-1

How will Computers Evolve over the Next 10 Years?

Prof Frank Wang

Head of School of Computing, University of Kent

Canterbury, UK

Chair, IEEE Computer Society, UKRI Chapter.

Abstract

Computer science has impacted on many parts of our lives. Computer scientists craft the technologies that enable the digital devices we use every day and computing will be at the heart of future revolutions in business, science, and society. Our research targets the next generation computing paradigms and their applications. We have been working on Cloud Computing, Grid Computing & Internet II for many years. A developed Cloud/Grid Computing platform conforms to the Internet standard and can universally accelerate Office/Database/Web/Media applications by a factor up to ten. This work won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing finalist award. We will also report our research on Green Computing, Brain Computing and Future Computing.

Speaker Biography

Frank Z. Wang is Professor in Future Computing and Head of School of Computing, University of Kent, UK. The School of Computing was formally opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1987. Professor Wang's research interests include cloud/grid computing, green computing, brain computing and future computing. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks to report on his research worldwide, for example at Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, CERN, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech., Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Aristotle University, and University of Johannesburg. In 2004, he was appointed as Chair & Professor, Director of Centre for Grid Computing at CCHPCF (Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility). CCHPCF is a collaborative research facility in the Universities of Cambridge and Cranfield (with an investment size of £40 million). Prof Wang and his team have won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing finalist award. Prof Wang was elected as the Chairman (UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE Computer Society in 2005. He is Fellow of British Computer Society. He has served the Irish Government High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science Panel.

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Keynote Speaker-2

Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems:

Nonlinear Dynamic Programming, a Logarithmic Function and the Concept of Contingency Fund

Dr Athanasios A Pantelous

Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (IFAM)

Department of Mathematical Sciences and Institute for Risk and Uncertainty

University of Liverpool, UK

Email: app@liv.ac.uk

Website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aap/homepage.html

Co-contributors: Humberto Godínez-Olivares and María del Carmen Boado-Penas

Summary

    The social security schemes in many western countries known to be heavily in deficit, pension funds are under increasing pressure from regulators, unions, workers and the media to address the current funding gap. From an investment perspective, these deficits have been driven by a fall in equities (such schemes typically invest heavily in equities) and bond yields (arguably the matching assets for pensions are bonds). Rising mortality rates are also another significant factor. We are living longer than expected and it is one of the main reasons for a dramatic rise in the liabilities, and hence the deficit.

    As the retirement pension is usually calculated based on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) framework, the pension for retirees is contributed mainly by the working age population. It is known that PAYGO systems require a balance between the benefits paid to the pensioners and the contributions made by the active workers. However, the Defined Benefit (DB) PAYGO financing system requires always adjustments over time in order to keep liquidity and, eventually, to maintain long term sustainability. In many EU countries, a good way to absorb the deficit is to implement parametric pension reforms. These reforms include changes in the contribution ceilings, revaluation of past wages, increases in the retirement age or indexation on the amount of the pension.

    The aim of this research project is to design an automatic balancing mechanism, which absorbs changes in the key-variables of the pension system (such as contribution rate, normal retirement age and indexation of pensions) using nonlinear dynamic programming, a logarithmic function and the concept of a liquidity or contingency fund. This mechanism calculates the optimal path of these variables over time managing fluctuations in longevity, fertility rates, life expectancy, salary growth or any other uncertainties in the pension scheme.

    The model is studied in both symmetric and asymmetric cases. Under the symmetric scenario, the model determines if the contribution rate and the age of normal retirement will be reduced if the buffer fund has a surplus or is increased in periods of deficit. Under an asymmetric design, changes in the control variables only occur when a deficit in the fund arises.

    Finally, as it can be shown the automatic balancing mechanism assures the liquidity of the PAYGO pension system without the repeated legislative intervention and it assists the decision making process. Numerical examples from EU countries illustrate the main findings of the paper.

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Speaker Biography

    Athanasios A. Pantelous is Reader in Statistics and Probability in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (IFAM) and Deputy Director of the multi-disciplinary Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty (LIRU) in the University of Liverpool. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics in 2001, MSc degrees in Statistics & O.R. in 2003, and Applied Mathematics in 2007 from the University of Athens, Greece. He received MSc in the Statistical methods applied to the Management of Insurance Organizations in 2004 and PhD in Statistics (Actuarial Mathematics) in 2008 from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. He also received a second PhD in Systems and Control Theory in 2013 from City University, London UK.

    A.A Pantelous has published over 50 scientific publications in international journals and 30 peer-reviewed publications in Springer, IEEE and IFAC sponsored international conferences. He delivered several invited key-note lectures and special tutorials at the intersection of system and mathematical control theory with particular applications to actuarial science and finance. He served as a member of the international scientific committee (chairman or/and organizer) in more than 30 international workshops, symposiums, conferences and congresses.

    Currently, he is co-Investigator in a large scale funding totaling £21 million to establish a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) on Quantification and Management of Risk & Uncertainty in Complex Systems & Environments together with Prof. Michael Beer and Prof. John Mottershead (Engineering) within the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty. This CDT is jointly funded by EPSRC and ESRC with a grant of around £4 million. The University of Liverpool will invest more than £6 million and 36 industrial (such as Munich Re, Lloyds, IBM, FNA, Rolls Royce etc) and academic partners (University of Maryland, Rice University, Columbia University, TU Kaiserslautern, National Tsing Hua University, KU Leuven, ETH Zurich) will contribute more than £10 million in the form of access to facilities, models and data. The CDT partners will provide workplaces and supervision for PhD students during industrial placements as well as training at summer schools and workshops.

His main research interests currently include:

·   Linear Stochastic/Deterministic Control Theory

·   Linear Algebra (Matrix Pencil Theory, G-inverses)

·   Generalized (Descriptor) Differential/Difference Systems

·   Catastrophe Risk Bonds

·   Pricing Processes in Insurance

·   Social Security Schemes (PAYGO)

·   Behavioural Finance

·   Financial Network Theory and Analysis

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Co-contributors Biography

Dr María del Carmen Boado-Penas joined the Department of Maths in September 2013 as a Lecturer in Actuarial Mathematics after leaving Keele University. Carmen holds a Ph.D. in Economics/Actuarial Science (Doctor Europeus and Extraordinary Award) from the University of Valencia (Spain) and a degree in Actuarial Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She has also published several articles on public pension systems in prestigious international reviews and has cooperated on various projects related to pension systems at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency in Stockholm and at the Spanish Ministry. In 2012, she worked as head of research on a project for the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Immigration, the aim of which was to evaluate the redistributive effects of the pension system reform in Spain. She was also awarded a prize by the Foundation of Spanish Savings Banks for her PhD 'Instruments for improving the equity, transparency and sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension systems'. Her research interests are focused on Notional Defined Contribution Accounts (NDCs), Actuarial Balance and Automatic Balance Mechanisms for the pay-as-you-go pension finance.

Mr Humberto Godinez-Olivares is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, University of Liverpool. He studied two degrees, one in Mathematics and the other one in Actuarial Sciences. He also got a Diploma in Dynamic Econometrics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and studied a Master in Public Policy at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).  During 2007-2012 Humberto worked as an advisor to the Chief Financial Officer at the Mexican state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), developing time series models, designing reverse auction and, analysing and proposing a reform to pension system during the last year. He is currently working under joint supervision of Dr Pantelous and Dr Boado-Penas on "Dynamic Modelling and Stability in Social Security Schemes". His research interests are pay as you go financing, actuarial balancing mechanism, optimization techniques and time series models.

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Keynote Speaker-3

Intelligent Decision Support for Intelligence Data Analysis

Qiang Shen

Director, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science

Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

Email: qqs@aber.ac.uk

Summary

Solving complex real-world problems usually requires intelligent decision-making. This typically involves the analysis of a large volume of vague and indiscernible information. For example, intelligence experts have commented that failures in detection of terrorist activity are often due to the difficulty in relating and interpreting the available intelligence, rather than a lack of data. Whilst experienced analysts can suggest plausible scenarios, the sheer amount of possibly relevant data may not be humanly interpretable in a given time-frame. The hypothetical (re-)construction of the events that may have generated the intelligence data, therefore, presents an interesting and significant research topic.

This talk will present a knowledge-based framework for the development of intelligent decision support systems under uncertain environments. This helps to assist (but not to replace) intelligence analysts by: a) identifying plausible scenarios of criminal or terrorist activity, and b) assessing the reliability, risk and urgency of generated hypotheses. In particular, the talk will introduce an integrated use of a number of recent advances in fuzzy systems for the monitoring and interpretation of intelligence data. The work offers an effective means for the generation and assessment of plausible scenarios, facilitating potentially rapid response in devising and deploying preventive measures. The talk will conclude with an outline of opportunities for further development.

Speaker Biography

Professor Qiang Shen received a PhD in Knowledge-Based Systems and a DSc in Computational Intelligence. He is 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). He has authored 2 research monographs and around 320 peer-reviewed papers, including an award-winning IEEE Outstanding Transactions paper. Professor Shen has acted as the first supervisor of over 40 PDRAs/PhDs, including one UK Distinguished Dissertation Award winner.

Professor Shen was a 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.”