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UKSim-AMSS
20th International Conference on Modelling & Simulation Cambridge University (Emmanuel
College), 27 - 29 March 2018 View UKSim2015 papers in uksim.info online Digital
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Call for Papers Paper Submission Registration Venue/Rooms Social Events TOBA Submission: See above Notification Paper: from 1 Feb Final
Upload into EDAS for checking & Registration (Payment): 20
February Credit Card on EDAS Camera-ready to IEEE server & copyright form: 27 February Conference
Chair: Alessandra Orsoni Honorary
Programme Chair: Adam Brentnall Local
Arrangements/ Venue
Chair: Richard
Cant General Chair: Publication
Research Editor: Zuwairie Ibrahim General
Co-Chair: Ajith Abraham EUROSIM
Liaison Chair Alessandra Orsoni |
Papers with Top Review Scores of 0.8 and 0.9 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Paper Submission Extended deadline, 17 February
2018 Write your paper using these
Templates: Word template (MS Word .doc format) And Submit to EDAS http://edas.info
, UKSim2018 (kindly ignore all formatting error messages from
EDAS, our editors will check it and tell you exactly how to repair it, no
need to repeatedly re-upload your paper to EDAS) Conference venue and accommodation: Emmanuel College, St Andrews Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3AP. Other
accommodation in Cambridge ===========================================================================================================
Papers are invited on any aspect of modelling
and simulation to be presented at UKSim2018, University of Cambridge
(Emmanuel College). The accommodation, renowned catering and conference
facilities are an ideal blend of modern and historic. The venue offers an
especially attractive opportunity for both professional discussion and
socialising. Full Paper (six pages with
figures) are invited on any aspect of modelling, simulation and their
applications. Tracks/Themes - Intelligent Systems - Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Soft Computing and Hybrid Soft Computing - Computational Intelligence - Systems Intelligence - Intelligence Systems - Control of Intelligent Systems - Control Intelligence - e-Science and e-Systems - Robotics, Cybernetics, Engineering,
Manufacturing and Control - Methodologies, Tools and Operations
Research - Bio-informatics and Bio-Medical Simulation - Discrete Event and Real Time Systems - Image, Speech and Signal Processing - Natural Language Processing/language
technologies - Computer Generated Art (images to be
exhibited at the conference and included in the proceedings CD) - Industry, Business and Management - Human Factors and Social Issues - Energy, Power Generation and Distribution - Transport, Logistics, Harbour, Shipping and
Marine Simulation - Supply Chain Management - 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 Suggested topics (other topics are
also welcome): Simulation methodology and practice, languages, tools and
techniques. Models and modelling tools. Data/object bases. Analytical and
statistical tools. Simulators and simulation hardware, training simulators.
Integration of simulation with concurrent engineering, integrated design and
simulation systems. AI, intelligent systems, agent-based simulation, decision
support systems, philosophical issues, analogies, metaphors, knowledge
modelling, acquisition and synthesis of new knowledge/models,
intelligent/adaptive behaviour, man/machine interaction, control systems.
Parallel and distributed simulation, discrete event systems. Artificial
neural networks, computational intelligence. Applications:
aerospace; remote sensing; electronic circuits and systems; communication and
networks; business; management; finance; economics; leisure, games,
war/conflict/rebellion modelling; psychology, cognitive functions, behaviour,
emotion, subjectivity; humanities, literature, semantics modelling/dynamics;
biology; medicine; public health; energy, power generation and distribution,
manufacturing; planning; control; robotics; measurement; monitoring; energy;
safety critica1 systems; transportation; structural mechanics and civil
engineering, oil and gas; education and training; military. Exhibitors:
manufacturers of software and hardware, publishers, etc., are invited to
apply to exhibit their products. Accepted
papers will be submitted to the IEEE
Digital Library. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the
International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology. The registration fee is $595. This will include a copy of the proceedings,
refreshments and lunch. Accommodation
in College: graduates from Cambridge colleges go on to become
leading world scientists, prime ministers, parliamentarians and top civil
servants. Share the experience of living-in by staying in college rooms. An all inclusive full-board 3-day package is available for
$650, single occupancy. This includes a meal on the evening before the
conference, all meals/conference dinner on day 1 and day 2 (including
conference pre-dinner reception), and breakfast and lunch on day 3. For those
wishing to eat outside, a Bed & Breakfast 3 day package is available at
$490 single occupancy. A limited number of en-suite
rooms are also available on all-inclusive full board basis at $850 for a 3
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You are invited to submit: - computer generated art, submit title and
abstract on EDAS as a normal paper then upload the image pdf file only as the
Full paper - 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 modelling and simulation and
their applications in science, technology, business and commerce. The
proceedings of the Conference will be submitted to the IEEE Digital Library.
The conference is supported/co-sponsored by -
EUROSIM -
European
Council for Modelling & Simulation -
Society for
Computer Simulation Int. (SCS)- Europe -
IEEE UK &RI
Computer Chapter -
Asia Modelling
& Simulation Section Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
All papers are to be submitted electronically,- see
full instructions under Paper
Submission below, in PDF or
Word format. All papers and artwork will be peer reviewed by at least three
independent referees of the international program committee. Paper Submission: UKSim2018 is using EDAS for submission, reviews and
registration, authors need to: - create an account with
EDAS (if not already have one) at edas.info - open the list of
conferences managed by EDAS & find UKSim2018 - click on Submit button on
the right to enter your paper title & abstract - upload file. IEEE Author Kit: emailed to authors on completion of registration/payment
on EDAS. Paper Templates: Word template (MS Word .doc 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. Conference website: http://uksim2018.info (http://uksim/uksim2018/uksim2018.htm
IEEE Student Members Travel Grants: a limited number of travel bursaries are available
for partial support of travel expenses to attend the conference to present
the paper, contact the general chair david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk Attendance and presentation 1. Non-attendance
does not affect publication in the CD, it only affects submission to I-Xplore (about 6 to 12 months after the conference). 2. Authors who
find it impossible to attend but still wish their paper to be submitted to I-Xplore must upload their Presentation file to EDAS for review by the committee to approve submission to
I-Xplore. The presentation file must include the reasons and explanation
for non attendance in the first slide after the title slide. 3. Authors who
confirm their intention to attend and present but do not show up will not
have the proceedings CD sent to them nor will their paper
be submitted to I-Xplore. 4. The
presentation program must be accurate to avoid time waste. I-Xplore: a paper will not be submitted to I-Xplore if it suffers from one or more of the following problems: 1. Below average
English, 2. Excessive
number of citations to the authors own work in References, 3. Little
interaction with EE and Computing, 4. Not within
the conference scope or has not followed Template, 5. Author did
not offer Valid reasons for not attending or not submitted the presentation
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Kai
Juslin (SIMS) Esko Juuso (SIMS) Khalid
Al-Begain (UKSim) Rashid Mehmood (UKSim) Gaius Mulley (UKSim) Miroslav
Snorek (CSSS) Andras Javor (HSS) Franco Maceri (ISCS) Peter Schwartz (ASIM) Charles Patchett (BAE, Warton) Henri Pierreval (FRANCOSIM) Kambiz Badie (Iran) Yuri Merkuryev
(LSS) Zulkarnay
Zakaria (Malaysia) |
Gaby Neumann (ASIM) Hosam Faiq (Malaysia) Hissam Tawfik (UK) Jiri
Kunovsky
(CSSS) Azian
Azamimi Abdullah (Malaysia) Sanjay Chaudhary (India) Arijit
Bhattacharya (Ireland) Atulya
Nagar (UK) Gregorio Romero (Spain) Kenneth Nwizege
(UK) Kathy Garden (NZ) M Luisa Martinez
(Spain) Giuseppe De
Francesco (Ireland) Jerry John Kponyo (Ghana) |
Suiping
Zhou (Singapore) Mikulas Alexik
(CSSS) Borut Zupancic
(SLOSIM) Igor Skrjanc
(SLOSIM) Wan Hussain Wan Ishak (Malaysia) Nitin Nitin (India) Ford Gaol (Indonesia) Philip Sallis (NZ) Martin
Tunnicliffe (UK) David
Murray-Smith (UKSim) Mahdi
Mahfouf (UKSim) Emelio Jimenez Macias (SPAIN) Danilo
Pelusi (Italy) |
Alessandra
Orsoni (UKSim) Vlatko Ceric Theodoros
Kostis (Greece) Russell
Cheng (UKSim) Miguel
Angel Piera (Spain) Antonio
Guasch (Spain) David
Al-Dabass (UKSim) Jadranka Bozikov
(CROSSIM) Richard Cant (UKSim) Felix Breitenecker (ASIM, SNE) Eduard Babulak (Canada) Siegfried Wassertheurer (ASIM) |
Wolfgang Wiechert (ASIM)S. Wassertheurer (ASIM) Janos Sebestyen-Janosy (HSS) Olaf
Ruhle (ASIM) Zuwairie Ibrahim (Malaysia) Marius
Radulescu (ROMSIM) Leon
Bobrowski (PSCS) Mojca Indihar Stemberger
(Slovenia) Rosni Abdulla (Malaysia) Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic
(Croatia) Roland
Wertz (Germany) |
Norlaili Safri
(Malaysia) Nikolaos
V. Karadimas (Greece) Afrand Agah (USA) Piers Campbell (UAE) Fabian Bottinger (Germany) K.G. Subramanian
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Registration: Only one
method of payment is available on EDAS: Credit Card:
payment is accepted online and confirmation is instant. 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. UKSim2015) 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. 4. Under
this table a list of credit card symbols and SWIFT. Click on the credit card
symbol. 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
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UKSim2018, Papers going to Publication
Papers by Track ToC If your paper is absent it
means we have not received the publication fee and your paper will not be
published. If you intend to pay soon by
credit card on EDAS (no other payment method is accepted), email the general chair
immediately on david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk. Early Bird Rate ends 5pm UK time
Tuesday 27 February, after that the late rate applies at $640, no student
discount. __Sub____= Substitute Presenter needed ____ _______ = Presentation file in EDAS
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Authors of papers with top review scores of 0.8 and 0.9 0.8: H2, S2, X3, Z1. 0.9: F1 H2, 1570435290, Using PCA and K-Means to
Predict Likeable Songs from Playlist Information, Richard Cant S2, 1570428807, Automated Volume
Analysis of Open Pit Mining Productions Based on Time Series Aerial Survey, Zsolt Domozi X3, 1570432676, Build or Merge:
Locational Decisions in Mobile Access Networks, Maurizio Naldi Z1, 1570424666, Demagnetization Analysis
of Mechanical Manipulation on Permanent Magnets, Marcelo Ribeiro F1, 1570437927, Measurement of Rater Consistency by Chance-Corrected Agreement
Coefficients, Zheng Xie Are invited to submit an extended version to IJSSST Congratulations,
here are the steps: 1. Extend
the paper by at least one page over the conference paper, up to a maximum of
20 pages 2. Amend the
title, abstract section and conclusions to reflect the additional material 3. Submit
the new version to IJSSST-V19 Issue No. 3 using EDAS, by the end of May 2018. 4. Inform
the general chair on david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk +.+ |
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Brain and
Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Prof Frank Wang
Head of School of Computing, University of Kent
Canterbury, UK
Chair, IEEE Computer Society, UKRI Chapter
Email: frankwang@ieee.org
Abstract
Deep learning was inspired by the 1981 Nobel Prize
work by David H. Hubel & Torsten Wiesel, who
found a cascading model in the human brain. We are building a computer that
works similarly to the human brain and could be useful for modern simulation
and modelling. Most of previous efforts to build brain-like computers have
failed because it took about the same silicon area to emulate a CMOS synapse
as that needed to emulate a neuron. In theory, any realistic implementation
of a synapse should ideally be at least four orders of magnitude smaller than
that required to build a neuron. The invention of the memristor
opens a new way to implement synapses. A memristor
is a simple 2-terminal element, which means a vast number of memristors could be integrated together with other CMOS
elements, in a brain-like machine.
Biography
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Keynote
Speaker-2 Lessons
Learnt in Delivering Complex, Science Based, Large-Scale Synthetic
Environment Trials Professor Jon Platts Dean, Cardiff School of Technologies Email: jplatts@cardiffmet.ac.uk Abstract
This talk will discuss personal recollections and
lessons identified during an intensive period of research involving the use
of Synthetic Environments to deliver actionable research output. The research
took place between 2010 and 2013 whilst the author was leading the technical teams
involved in autonomous systems research within QinetiQ. Four trials were
executed at 6 monthly intervals. The research work was focussed on how best to
introduce automation and autonomy to formations of both manned and unmanned
air systems to deliver significant additional capabilities. Studies indicated
that cloud based concepts would
provide benefits by maximising the availability of capability, reducing
redundancy and permitting efficiencies in operation and deployment of effect.
This work examined automation applied to the cloud and built on substantial
work looking at command abstraction of users and consumers interacting with
systems. The work retained the absolute authority of the human supervisor.
Data was gathered through Synthetic Environment based trials which immersed
serving military personnel, exercising both manned and unmanned systems,
whilst divorcing the operators from platform ownership allowing them to
concentrate instead on task ownership. Within the synthetic environment,
baseline systems were compared with systems possessing higher degrees of
automation and tool functionality. In a nutshell: candidate technologies were
developed for real-time execution and analysis in a militarily realistic
scenario with military operators. The talk will explain the setup of the trial and
describe the interplay and conflicting requirements running across parallel
swim lanes as the teams involved (for example, military scenario planning,
candidate technology development, synthetic environment development,
hypothesis development and analysis), developed the trial to meet aggressive
deadlines. Biography
Jon recently took up this role following careers in
the Royal Air Force and industry research and development. He has had
commercial success with his own company Muretex,
winning significant, nationally competed, research grant funding,- most recently in the latest round of Innovate UK
funding for Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He has international contacts
and reach, having proposed and chaired 2 European research action groups over
8 years; been invited to deliver a NATO lecture series on autonomy. Jon was
the Head of Autonomy for QinetiQ for 13 years, shaping the direction of
research programmes and co-ordinating multi-organisation teams (from QinetiQ,
Dstl, BAE Systems, Thales UK, the Military and
Academia) and multi-disciplinary teams, the output being to design and
deliver large scale research (both flight and synthetic) trials. Highlights
include a flight trial over Dartmoor where a single seat fast jet pilot
controlled 4 drones (1 live, 3 synthetic) on an attack mission using high levels
of autonomy and leading QinetiQs autonomous systems
offering into the UKs Taranis stealthy Unmanned Combat Air System
demonstrator. In his current role Jon will lead the ambitious
multi-million pound Cardiff School of Technologies launch and development, to
further establish Cardiff Metropolitan University as a world leader within
the tech industry. The School plans to recruit 2,000 new students by 2024,
aligned to the employment needs of South Wales' growing tech sector and will
partner with technology-focused companies across the Cardiff Capital Region
to support their growth plans with students work ready in areas such
as data science, cyber security, mobile computing, artificial intelligence
and systems engineering. Jon holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering from the University of Bradford, an MSc in Aerosystems
Engineering from Loughborough University and a PhD in Self organising fuzzy
logic from Loughborough University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of
Engineering and Technology and a member of both the Institution of
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Keynote
Speaker-3 Feature Selection in Systems Modelling
with Imprecise Data Prof Qiang Shen Director, Institute of
Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science Aberystwyth University,
Wales, UK. Email: qqs@aber.ac.uk Abstract Feature selection (FS) addresses the problem of
selecting those system descriptors that are most predictive of a given
outcome. Unlike other dimensionality reduction methods, with FS the original
meaning of the features is preserved. This has found application in tasks
that involve datasets containing very large numbers of features that might
otherwise be impractical to model and process (e.g., large-scale image
analysis, text processing and Web content classification), where feature
semantics play an important role. This talk will focus on the development and
application of approximate FS mechanisms based on rough and fuzzy-rough
theories. Such techniques provide a means by which imprecisely described data
can be effectively reduced without the need for user-supplied information. In
particular, Fuzzy-Rough Feature Selection (FRFS) works with discrete and
real-valued noisy data (or a mixture of both). As such, it is suitable for
regression as well as for classification. The only additional information
required is the fuzzy partition for each feature, which can be automatically
derived from the data. FRFS has been shown to be a powerful technique for
semantics-preserving data dimensionality reduction. In introducing the
general background of FS, this talk will first cover the rough-set-based
approach, before focusing on FRFS and its application to real-world problems.
The talk will conclude with an outline of opportunities for further
development.
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Keynote
Speaker-4 Cross
Disciplinary Simulation Studies Prof Kelvin
Donne University of Wales Trinity Saint David Swansea Campus, Mount Pleasant Swansea SA1 6ED kelvin.donne@uwtsd.ac.uk We discuss the results of Computer Simulation work
undertaken across a diverse range of disciplines, from underpinning numerical
analysis in the Boundary Element Method through to computational modelling in
ballistics and Product Design. Computational
Modelling of projectile impact onto laminated glazing: we consider the impact of small fragments onto
laminated glass windows, which could be either architectural or automotive.
We review the physics involved, then discuss simulation studies of a number
of situations, including: - The initial impact event creating a localised chip: computational work using an
explicit time-dependent finite element model will be presented. - The subsequent chip to full crack-off: in the case
of automotive glazing, this would mean replacing the whole windscreen rather
than a localised repair. - Thermo-structural analysis of windscreens in
extreme environments. The presentation will consider material models for
brittle materials, strain-rate dependency and damage models commonly used in
these type of analyses. The simulation work is informed by experimental
ballistic work and some high speed videos will be shown illustrating how
these can help in the qualitative interpretation of the simulation work. The presentation will also emphasise the issues
concerned with short deadlines for simulation work sponsored by industry and
how results need to be presented for non-technical audience. Mitigation
of the Singularity problem in the Time-Dependent Boundary Element Method: The Time dependent BEM is a relatively obscure
technique for solving transient thermal diffusion problems. This presentation
will describe recent results showing the power of this method in the context
of light-tissue interaction, including benchmarking against analytical
solutions. In particular, the well-known singularity problem with algorithms
based around Green functions will be discussed along with mitigation
strategies. A practical application of the TDBEM will be presented, illustrating
the convergence challenge for medical device modelling [1, 2]. Usability
Analysis for Product Design Evaluation: Early work in usability analysis for expert system evaluation in our
research group has led to an opportunity to diffuse this method into the
assessment of new product design and development, where quantitative methods
have been relatively underexploited or indeed avoided compared to qualitative
techniques. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the power of
statistically rigorous usability analysis, where Thurstones
method [3, 4] of pairwise comparisons is used in conjunction with a set of
design factors to assess new product concepts. - Design of action furniture: The case study will
discuss the process of product deconstruction leading to design factors that
serve as criteria to assess different design solutions for both manual and
powered reclining furniture, by a UK based company seeking to achieve a
competitive edge. The case study will show the conjunction of this Psychophysics
approach along with more conventional fatigue analysis. - Different forms of representing a new glass
sculptural concept at an early stage of the product development cycle will be
assessed, including sketching, Gouraud shading,
photorealistic rendering , mono and stereo [5,6]. This second case study,
Thurstones method of pair-wise comparisons,- originally proposed as a
quantitative approach for aesthetic judgment, is applied to assess how
different representational modes from paper sketching through to stereoscopic
virtual images perform in conveying the design intent. This analysis will be
applied to three different glass design concepts. References 1. Donne K E, Bashford T & Marotin A: Solution of the Transient Thermal Diffusion equation
using the Boundary Element Method, Int. J. Comp. Meth. and
Exp. Meas., Vol. 5, No. 3 (2017) 260 - 270. DOI: 10.2495/CMEM-V5-N3-260 -
270. Presented at the 39th International Conference on Boundary Element
Methods, Siena , Italy, September 2016 2. Bashford T, Donne K E, Marotin A & Al-Hussany A.
Parallelisation techniques for the Dual Reciprocity and Time-Dependent
Boundary Element Method algorithms, Int. J. Comp. Meth. and
Exp. Meas., Vol. 5, No. 3 (2017) 395 - 403. DOI: 10.2495/CMEM-V5-N3-395-403.
Presented at the 39th International Conference on Boundary Element Methods,
Siena, Italy, September 2016 3. Thurstone
LL, A Law of Comparative Judgment, Psychological Review Vol 101, No 2, pp
266-270, (1994). 4. Gescheider
G A, PsychoPhysics Method: Theory and Application,
2nd Edn [Lawrence Erlabum
Associates], (1985). 5. Donne K E, Head R, A quality
metric for glass artefact prototypes, 6th International Conference Quality
Reliability Maintenance, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK, 2007. 6. Head R, Donne K E, Bender R,
Brown RDH (June 2005) Digital Design Methodology for Glass Design &
Manufacture 9th International Conference on Architectural & Automotive
Glass, Tampere, Finland.
Kelvin Donne is now
Professorial Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and was
previously Faculty Dean and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor. He has published over 70 papers and has
supervised over 20 PhD students mainly in the area of computational physics.
His main areas of research are tissue photonics and automotive glass
fracture. |
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