1. UKSim2016 18 th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation 6 – 8 April 2016 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Words of thanks Conferences coming up This conference

2. Thanks are due to Reviewers, track teams and Authors from all countries including (country of 1 st author): United Kingdom-8. Saudi Arabia-7. Egypt, Germany: 4 each. Iran, Kuwait, Turkey, UAE: 3 each. China, India, Ireland, Lebanon, Norway, Russia: 2 each. Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovakia, Thailand, USA: 1 each. Total 60 papers from 27 countries. EUROSIM and its national societies 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, UMP, UMS, UTM, KMUT and other universities in South East Asia for active sponsorship and support.

3. Conferences Coming up this year SIMS2016 : Systems Informatics, Modelling & Simulation, 1 - 3 June, Riga, Latvia, deadline 1 May 2016 CICSyN2016 : Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, 25 - 27 July, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, deadline 15 June 2016 AIMS2016 : Artificial Intelligence, Modelling & Simulation, 7 - 9 September, Madrid, Spain, deadline 1 August EMS2016/CIMSim2016 : European Modelling Symposium/ Computational Intelligence, Modelling & Simulation, 24 – 26 October, Pisa, Italy, deadline 15 September AMS2016/ICAIET2015 : Asia Modelling Symposium/International Conference on Artificial Intelligence application in Engineering and Technology, 5 – 7 December, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, deadline 20 October

4. UKSim2016 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), 3 Keynote speakers, 1 in each day-1, day-2 and day-3. Day-1 Today: full day, 2 parallel sessions, till 5.30pm Prof Frank Wang + 21 papers Day-2 Presentations in morning only, 2 parallel sessions Prof Yong Meng Teo+ 9 papers 2.30 Cambridge tour (a must!!) 7.00 Conference Dinner, Fellow Breakfast Room Day-3 Presentations in morning only, 2 parallel sessions Prof Hermann Hessling + 10 papers Closing remarks in Auditorium, photo session, lunch

5. UKSim2016 Published Papers Statistics Papers published: 60 Scheduled for presentation: 3 keynote speakers and 40 papers Published papers by track: most popular tracks: 19.S.Image, Speech and Signal Processing8 21.U.Energy, Power, Transport, Logistics, Harbour, Shipping and Marine Simulation8 24.X.Mobile/Ad hoc wireless networks, mobicast, sensor placement, 6 26.Z.Circuits, Sensors and Devices6 06.F.Bioinformatics and Bioengineering5 11.K.Intelligent Systems and Applications4 25.Y.Performance Engineering of Computer & Communication Systems4 16.P.Robotics, Cybernetics, Engineering, Manufacturing and Control3 23.W.Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies3 09.I.Games, VR and Visualization2 10.J.Emergent Technologies2 20.T.Industry, Business, Management, Human Factors and Social Issues2 The rest track: A, B, CA, E, H, M and N + 1 each 7 Total 60

6. UKSim2016 Day-1 Keynote Speaker-1 + 21 papers 9 – 10.45am: Keynote Speaker, Prof Frank Wang: Computing for Big Science: Gravitational Wave Detection Coffee break 11.15 – 12.15pm, 6 papers Room-A A1, I1, I2 Room-B F3, F4, F5 Lunch 1.30 – 3.15pm, 10 papersRoom-A J1, K2, T1, T2, U1 Room-B N1, P1, P2, P3, Z1 Tea break 3.50 – 5.30pm, 5 papersRoom-A S1, S2, S4, S6, S7 Close of day-1 and photo opportunity

7. UKSim2016 Day-2 Keynote Speaker-2 + 9 papers 9 – 10.30am: Keynote Speaker, Prof Yong Meng Teo: Modelling & Formalizing Weak Emergence 10.30 – 11: Coffee break 11 – 12.40: 9 papers Room-A U2, U4, U5, U6, U8 Room-B W1, W2, W3, X1, [] 12.40: Close of day-2, photo opportunity & Lunch 2.30: Cambridge Tour 7pm: Conference Dinner

8. UKSim2016 Day-3 Keynote Speaker-3 + 10 papers 9 – 10.30am: Keynote Speaker, Prof Herman Hessling: Analysing Large-Scale Data 10.30 – 11: Coffee break 11 – 12.40: 9 papers Room-A B1, H1, Y2, Y4, CA1 Room-B Z2, Z3, Z4, Z6, K.L 12.40: Close of conference, photo opportunity, Lunch and depart

9. Keynote Speaker-1: Professor Frank Wang Computing for Big Science: Gravitational Wave Detection 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.

10. Keynote Speaker-2: Prof Yong Meng Teo Modelling and Formalizing Weak Emergence -Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore -Head: Information Technology Unit and the Computer Systems Research Group. -Visiting Professor: Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2010. -Fellow of the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance from 2002-2006. -Master and PhD, both in Computer Science, from University of Manchester in UK. -Research interests: parallel & distributed computing -Current projects: i) performance analysis of large systems, ii) cloud computing and iii) composability theory and its validation. -Held various visiting positions at MIT (USA), KTH (Sweden), Hitachi Central Research Lab (Japan) among others.

11. Keynote Speakers –3, Professor Herman Hessling Analysing Large-Scale Data Bachelors and Masters in Physics at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen and Hamburg. Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Theoretical Physics, Thesis: Quantum Equivalence Principle Postdoctoral research fellow at Deutsches Elektronen- Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg (1993-1996). Team member of the ZEUS experiment on the internal structure of the proton conducted with the HERA collider. 1999: Technical Director at a networking company then Professor of Operating Systems at University of Applied Sciences Hof. Since 2000: Professor of Applied Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin.

12. UKSim2016 Thank you and have a good conference!!