Simulation and Informatics (SIMFORMATICS) workshop
12 October 1993 - 12 October 1993
Belgium
Following the inauguration of the European Chair in Simulation Sciences at the University of Ghent, Belgium and the initiation of the ESPRIT Working Group "Simulation in Europe" (11 October 1993), a SIMFORMATICS (Simulation and Informatics) workshop will be held at the University on 12-13 October.
The subject-area, "simformatics", is a view of the activity of simulation as an integral part of problem solving. Therefore the real challenge in this area is to organize/represent information in such a way that the problem may be simulated if necessary.
The two-day workshop presents simformatics as the advanced problem solving tool of the future via a series of lectures given by invited experts. Subjects include:
- An institute for simulation and training (a discussion of the use of simformatics in the USA and the importance of the University of Ghent's Chair);
- Simformatics, building bridges (i.e. between the developer/academic and the simulation user);
- The scientific prediction of major catastrophes and the limitations of computer models and simulations;
- The simformatics approach to the use of simulation in concurrent engineering (concurrent engineering represents a more systematic approach to the creation of quality products and their delivery to the market at lower cost and in significantly less time);
- The conjoint numeric, symbolic and neural computing approach to simformatics (a discussion of multiparadigm modelling and simulation);
- Methodology based simulator architecture (solutions to the study of ill-defined systems proposed and implemented in an advanced simulation facility at the University);
- Advances in simformatics software.
In addition, a panel meeting of the ESPRIT Special Interest Group "Simulation in Europe" (SIE) will take place on the morning of 12 October. Exchanges of ideas between members of the Special Interest Group and invited simulation experts and pioneers will help to shape the policy guidelines for a SIE Working Group on "Simulation for the Future".
A subsequent open meeting of the SIE Special Interest Group will be held during ESS '93, the European Simulation Symposium, taking place in Delft on 25-28 October 1993.
For further information, please contact:
University of Ghent
Department for Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control
Coupure Links 655
B-9000 Ghent
Tel. +32-9-2645931/-2645932; Fax +32-9-2234941
The subject-area, "simformatics", is a view of the activity of simulation as an integral part of problem solving. Therefore the real challenge in this area is to organize/represent information in such a way that the problem may be simulated if necessary.
The two-day workshop presents simformatics as the advanced problem solving tool of the future via a series of lectures given by invited experts. Subjects include:
- An institute for simulation and training (a discussion of the use of simformatics in the USA and the importance of the University of Ghent's Chair);
- Simformatics, building bridges (i.e. between the developer/academic and the simulation user);
- The scientific prediction of major catastrophes and the limitations of computer models and simulations;
- The simformatics approach to the use of simulation in concurrent engineering (concurrent engineering represents a more systematic approach to the creation of quality products and their delivery to the market at lower cost and in significantly less time);
- The conjoint numeric, symbolic and neural computing approach to simformatics (a discussion of multiparadigm modelling and simulation);
- Methodology based simulator architecture (solutions to the study of ill-defined systems proposed and implemented in an advanced simulation facility at the University);
- Advances in simformatics software.
In addition, a panel meeting of the ESPRIT Special Interest Group "Simulation in Europe" (SIE) will take place on the morning of 12 October. Exchanges of ideas between members of the Special Interest Group and invited simulation experts and pioneers will help to shape the policy guidelines for a SIE Working Group on "Simulation for the Future".
A subsequent open meeting of the SIE Special Interest Group will be held during ESS '93, the European Simulation Symposium, taking place in Delft on 25-28 October 1993.
For further information, please contact:
University of Ghent
Department for Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control
Coupure Links 655
B-9000 Ghent
Tel. +32-9-2645931/-2645932; Fax +32-9-2234941