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Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm

Scientific Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#ScientificModelling

Scientific Modelling and End User Programming - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#ScientificModelling.

Software Engineering - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineeringing.htm

Software Engineering Research Group SERG - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/researchgroup.php?menu=off&group=serg - SERG's mission is to bridge the gap between software engineering research and its application to different disciplines.

Systems Engineering and Simulation

Usability Survey

I'm developing a survey on usability, I don't think it's quite right yet, but I would still welcome anyone using it to leave feedback on my research topic (or about the survey) - Click Here to take part in a usability survey, and support my PhD research, for anyone who does not want to remain anonymous, I would be pleased to take an interest in their research.

The survey compares these interfaces -

Taxonomy - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration1.htm.

Diagrammatic - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration2.htm.

And asks for further advice on end-user programming.

I'm interested in feedback from anyone, whatever their level of IT skills.

Survey - Seeking feedback on software usability.

Our Research Interests in Systems Enginering and Simulation.

The intention of this project is to create a way for non programmers to create software in high level open standards based declarative languages built with Semantic Web technologies. The reasoning behind this is that if Semantic Web languages can represent data, they can also represent programs, as programs are just a specialised kind of data. The non programmer would program with this declarative language by means of a diagrammatic visualisation.

Many people would like to make greater use of computer technology but are hampered by the need to learn programming languages if they are to fully interact with software. Instead they are limited to the use of certain generic features that are provided for them. A further constraint is the cost of software, and for this project we will develop free software and encourage a community of end-user developers, and modellers.

We aim to provide Semantic Web based modelling and simulation tools that are usable and programmable by end-users. This is in order to ease the difficulties involved in translating requirements between software experts and domain experts. Our research will develop, extend, and combine existing research in provision of web page development tools for end-users, meta-programming, and web based modelling and simulation tools. The diagram below explains the research area we intend to explore.

This research will be part of our co-ordinated efforts to enable end-user programming for knowledge management (including e-learning), modelling and decision support, and simulation. Therefore the research will concentrate mainly on translation for simulation and enabling non programmers to create web-based simulation systems. This is illustrated in the figure below.

The main research area will be the interface between Meta-Programming, Modelling and Simulation, and Semantic Web Model Creation, shaded in the figure below. This could allow end-users to develop their own Semantic Web based simulation and modelling tools using a graphical visual interface.

A simple illustration of the techniques we can use to further this research area is a demonstrator we completed for meta-programming of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based drag and drop trees. Python is used as a translator between the XML representation of the trees and interactive graphical representations of them. This allows open standards platform independent end-user programming. Such techniques could be used with other Semantic Web based information representations based on languages and structures such as XML, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and OWL (Web Ontology Language), and provision of other controls. These could then be used as graphical components of a simulation system made available over the web. This demonstrator furthered the research of Anderson and Krause [1]. Whiteside also used XML based meta programming to allow end user programming of games with Simkin [2]. Semantic languages provide a higher level declarative view of the problem to be modelled.

Standardisation in XML/RDF enables use of declarative rules for web services. Rules play an important role in artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems, and for intelligent agents. To allow information sharing and reuse, interoperability, and collaboration we will use an ontology centric approach [3]. Ontologies are defined by Gruber in [4], and he also examines how equations and quantities can be represented in an ontology. Extending such work can enable functions and calculations to be represented in OWL and called by a Semantic Web based programming language.

More information on Drag and drop visual programming is at - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm.

References

[1] Sample code using drag & Drop with a tree - http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wxPython-users/msg11332.html - Drag and Drop contributed by Sam Anderson, reposted by Dirk Krause.

[2] Simkin - http://www.simkin.co.uk/Links.shtml.

[3] COSMOA: An Ontology-Centric Multi-Agent System For Coordinating Medical Responses To Large-Scale Disasters. Bloodsworth, P., Greenwood, S., 2005. AI Communications Vol 18 (3) Agents Applied in Health Care pp 229-240.

[4] Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing - Gruber T. R. 1993, http://www2.umassd.edu/SWAgents/agentdocs/stanford/onto-design.pdf - In Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, edited by Nicola Guarino and Roberto Poli, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press. Substantial revision of paper presented at the International Workshop on Formal Ontology, March, 1993, Padova, Italy. Available as Technical Report KSL 93-04, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University.

Other Pages on this subject

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm.

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm.

Internal Links

Engineering Examples - Aerospace - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/bin/browse.dsb?dir/Engineering/Aerospace/ - These examples illustrate creation of component tree definitions that are then transformed to Web based representations. The information is translated from Protégé to DecisionPro (Vanguard System) to other software as required. Another type of transformation performed is that from a tree based to interactive diagrammatic representation. Further calculations can then be performed in whatever software represents the results to the user.

Flash Taxonomy viewer that can be used to view eXtensible Markup Language (XML) taxonomies. Flash XML Taxonomy Viewer Example - Flash HCI Example. This is based on an example from a book Flash MX Application and Interface Design (Rhodes, G. et al.)

Interactive SVG Examples - Interactive SVG Examples - Wing Components.

Parametric Costing - engine and bolt

PMXML Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/PMXML.htm.

Process Modelling - PSL - Process Specification Language and XML (Extensible Markup Language) - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/ProcessSpecificationLanguage.htm.

STEPml Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/STEPml.htm.

Vanguard Global Knowledge Portal - Spar Example - Java Generator - Spar - Translated from Protege Ontology - outputs results to other languages - e.g. Java, XML for Flash tree, SVG.

Cost Modelling

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/CostModelling.htm.

Cost Engineering Capability Study (South West Aerospace & Defence) - http://www.knowledgewest.org.uk/news/archive.asp?id=42 - A scoping report into Cost Engineering practices in the South West region discussing the issues of moving towards open book tendering and cost estimating practices within the supply chain. - Knowledge West - 12/12/2006 - Researchers - Mr David Evans (University of the West of England, Bristol) - Dr Richard McIntosh (University of Bath) from the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre - With assistance from: Professor A R Mileham and Dr L B Newnes (University of Bath) - Dr J Lanham and Dr R Marsh (University of the West of England, Bristol)

Interoperability

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#Interoperability.

Internal Links

PMXML Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/PMXML.htm.

Process Modelling - PSL - Process Specification Language and XML (Extensible Markup Language) - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/ProcessSpecificationLanguage.htm.

Program Transformation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ProgramTransformation.htm.

External Links

INTEROP - public deliverables of INTEROP-NoE and ATHENA-IP are already available on the INTEROP-VLab website http://www.interop-vlab.eu - the platform of INTEROP-VLab has been chosen by the European Commission (DG INFSO, unit D4 'Networked Enterprise and RFID) to be the official repository of public deliverables from all projects in the domain of Enterprise Interoperability conducted under the 6th and 7th framework programmes.

OWL/SWRL representation methodology for EXPRESS-driven product information model Part I. Implementation methodology, Zhao, W. and Liu, J.K. 2008. Computers in Industry - Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Abstract - This paper presents an ontology-based approach to enable semantic interoperability and reasoning over the product information model. The web ontology language (OWL) and the semantic web rule language (SWRL) in the Semantic Web are employed to construct the product information model. The traditional modeling language called EXPRESS is discussed. The representation methodology for EXPRESS-driven product information model is then proposed. The key of the representation methodology is mapping from EXPRESS to OWL/SWRL. Some illustrated examples are presented. - Keywords - Product information model; OWL; SWRL; EXPRESS; Ontology representation.

Model Driven Programming

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#ModelDrivenProgramming.

Modelling

Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm

Scientific Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#ScientificModelling

Scientific Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#UWEExamples.

Ontology Driven Programming

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#OntologyDrivenProgramming

Requirements Engineering

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#RequirementsEngineering

Service-Oriented Architecture

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#ServiceOrientedArchitecture.

Simulation

Collaboration, simulation and modelling have been investigated to assist in determining the requirements for future research in modelling of problems.

Crapo et al. [26] explain that visual representations are often processed by people pre-attentively, and immediately, so this gives an advantage over text. This technique can be used more dynamically in simulations. Simulations represent the real world problem and provide constant feedback to the user on how the system is progressing. In this sense, visualisation is a type of simulation as visual interfaces are perceived in a similar way to the real world [26]. Pictorial metaphors are static, while a users' mental model is made up of mental images connected together by a set of rules. This is explained by Sasse [8]. The user runs a mental model like a simulation, this is explained by Crapo et al. [26] and [27]. Static user interfaces rely on a user to string together images into a mental model which correctly represents what the system is doing. A user may generate a mental model in response to user interface metaphors which is inconsistent with the system model. Shim et al. [18] explain "the mental models of stakeholders with various perspectives lie at the heart of the decision process, from defining what is a problem, to analysis of the results of trying to solve the problem." Simulation can help to ensure that the designers' model, system model and users' model are all the same. Ernst et al. [2] and Auer et al. [17] also make this point about mapping between user's mental model of a system, and the system model.

The figure below illustrates the problem to be solved, this is the need to translate between human and computer. It also demonstrates the complexity of the problem that needs solving. This is the complexity that is present in most software systems. Complexity varies according to the needs of the application. The complexity of calculation increases when moving from the domains of knowledge management through to decision support and simulation. The increase in complexity is of calculation in this direction from knowledge management to decision support to simulation, and of information in the other direction from simulation to decision support to knowledge management.

The research investigates provision of solutions for Knowledge Management, Decision support, and Simulation. The system provides automated translation from a model provided by the user, or by other systems into the software, ontology, and database representation. Miller and Baramidze [22] explain that for a "simulation study that includes model building, scenario creation, model execution, output analysis and saving/interpreting results. Ontologies can be useful during all of these phases." Any required calculations would then be made and translated to provide a model that can be interpreted by users.

Reichenthal [23] explains the use of the XML syntax SRML in sumulation. Kuljis and Paul [3] explain how XML and VRML can be used for simulation. Kuljis and Paul give a summary of the aims of the AARIA project for manufacturing simulation over the Internet. A significant advantage of VRML simulations over other media is that they contain a subset of CAD information that can be communicated into the system. Kim et al. [4] explain how VRML can be used for collaborative viewing and amending of mechanical parts. Phillips and Rodden [13] examine the use of VRML for building of collaborative virtual worlds. Nidamarthi et al. [14] made use of VRML to allow scientists and engineers to collaborate on the design of Nanotechnology parts.

Feng and Song evaluate simulation for process planning [10].

A future task to be undertaken would be the inclusion of uncertainty in the automatically produced models, for situations where accurate information cannot be provided for the model. This would require provision of a way of handling uncertainty for parameters within the ontology, e.g. as 3 values describing a triangular distribution rather than a unique absolute value. The decision support meta-program could be expanded to write out the code to run Monte-Carlo sampling, hence making use of the statistical uncertainty capability, Sweeting explains Monte-Carlo simulation [21]. Miller and Baramidze [22] examine efforts to develop mathematical semantic representations above the syntactical representations of MathML. This effort should make it possible for standardisation of the representation of mathematical expressions that relate nodes, and their values and expressions, to each other. The next stage in the research surrounding this thesis will be provision of constraints to prevent invalid mathematical expressions. Miller and Baramidzes' DEMO system [5] uses OWL to define a simulation and modelling class hierarchy. It would be very useful to create an example to demonstrate this with a practical model to test the use of this ontology.

Modelling and Web-Based Simulation

Huang and Mak [12] evaluate issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture. Reed et al. [9] show how web based modelling and simulation can be used for improving the aircraft design process. Shen [6] examines web based discrete-event simulation.

Lacy and Gerber [19] examine how OWL can be used to aid modelling and simulation. Miller and Baramidze [22] explain that building generic ontologies for modelling and simulation is hard, as this is not domain specific and there is need for rigorous definitions of mathematical concepts.

Our research has involved creating an OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontology to enable users to specify parameters in diagrammatic form. It could be possible to extend the semantics used in the specification of models to allow the creation of a framework for simulations. Because the ontology uses open standards, these simulations could be made broadly available on the web. It is important that the necessary infrastructure is created to allow this facility to be added. The approaches of others to this problem have been examined. Page [24][25], Page et al. [28] and Page and Opper [11] examine the nature of web-based simulations. Miller et al. [20] explain the technology behind web-based simulations, and argue the need for demonstrating the application of web-based simulations for major projects. Fishwick and Miller [15] and Park and Fishwick [16] examine the use of ontologies for modelling and simulation. The authors were involved in the RUBE project that developed a system for battle simulations. The RUBE project uses open standards and Protégé for the ontology, and outputs some code automatically. Kuljis and Paul [3] evaluate progress in this field of web simulation. They argue the need for web-based simulations to be focussed on solving real-world problems in order to be successful. Kim et al. [1] explain how techniques of generating executable code from documents specified in standardised XML can be used to create simulations. Simulations could also be used for optimization and Chen and Yücesan [7] investigate this. So web based simulation is an area of research that is worth exploring. The use of process models can allow accurate manufacturing times to be generated. This requires dynamic models of factories, cells and processes. Future research will involve developing simulation software with a web interface, which could determine a process plan and reflect resource and time constraints. Also it is necessary for users of a system to be able to gather information from various computer systems such as databases and spreadsheets. There is a conflict between the aim to develop an ideal representation of knowledge using an ontology editor, and the practical need to get the data from the database or application it is currently held in. The research undertaken in this thesis, prototypes ways of creating information and of finding it. Crapo et al. [26] and [27] have also investigated this problem.

Visualisation Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.htm.

Web Based Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#WebBasedModelling.

Web Taxonomy Creation - Article - Ezine Article - An important contribution to Public Understanding of Science and for enabling of new insights would be creation of an online systematic representation of scientific information that gives a holistic view of related knowledge. This would reuse information and ideas provided by other researchers. These systems organise and visualise information...

References

[1] A Two-Stage Modeling and Simulation Process for Web-Based Modeling and Simulation 2002 Kim Taewoo, Jinho Lee Paul Fishwick, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 12 3.

[2] Addressing cognitive issues in knowledge engineering with Jambalaya - http://www.neilernst.net/docs/pubs/ernst-kcap03.pdf - 2003. Ernst, N. A., Storey, M., Allen, P., Musen, M. - KCAP workshop - Visualization in Knowledge Engineering.

[3] An appraisal of web-based simulation: whither we wander? 2001 Kuljis Jasna, R J Paul Simulation Practice and Theory 9 37-54.

[4] Brokering and 3D collaborative viewing of mechanical part models on the Web 2001 Kim Yeongho, Youngsang Choi, Sang Bong Yoo International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 28-40.

[5] Discrete-Event Modeling Ontology (DeMO): - http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jam/jsim/DeMO/ - DeMO is an ontology for discrete-event modeling (DEM) (system dynamics for discrete-event systems (DES)). The models in the ontology focus on how state evolves over time.

[6] Discrete-Event Simulation On The Internet and the Web, 1998, Shen C C, SCS International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, San Diego 57-62.

[7] Distributed Web-Based Simulation Experiments For Optimization. Chen, C.-H., Yücesan, E., 2001. Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory, 9, pp 73-90.

[8] Eliciting and Describing Users' Models of Computer Systems. Sasse, M. A., 1997. Ph.D thesis, University of Birmingham. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.sasse/thesis.

[9] Improving the Aircraft Design Process Using Web-Based Modeling and Simulation 2000 Reed John A Gregory J Follen, Abdollah A Afjeh ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 10 1 58-83.

[10] Information Modeling of Conceptual Design Integrated with Process Planning 2000 Feng Shaw C, Eugene Y Song, The 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress November 5-10 Orlando, Florida.

[11] Investigating the application of web-based simulation principles within the architecture for a next-generation computer generated forces model - Ernest H. Page, Jeffrey M. Opper - Future Generation Computer Systems Volume 17, Issue 2 (October 2000) pp 159 - 169.

[12] Issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture, 2001, Huang, G. Q., Mak, K. L., International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 125-135

[13] Multi-authoring virtual worlds via the World Wide Web - Phillips P., Rodden T., Interacting with Computers, Volume 13, Number 3, February 2001, pp. 401-426(26).

[14] Nidamarthi S., Allen R. H., Ram D. S. (2001) Observations from supplementing the traditional design process via Internet-based collaboration tools, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 14 (1), 95-107.

[15] Ontologies For Modeling and Simulation, 2004 Fishwick Paul A, Miller John A, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

[16] Ontology-based Customizable 3D Modeling for Simulation, 2005, Park Minho, Fishwick Paul A. http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0010095/park_m.pdf - PhD Dissertation.

[17] OntoWiki - http://3ba.se - Explanation - OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration - Auer, S., Riechert, T., Dietzold, S., 2006. - 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006.

[18] Past, present, and future of decision support technology - Decision Support Systems - Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2002, Pages 111-126 - J.P. Shim, Merrill Warkentin, James F. Courtney, Daniel J. Power.

[19] Potential Modeling and Simulation Applications of the Web Ontology Language - OWL, 2004 Lacy Lee, William Gerber, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

[20] Research and commercial opportunities in Web-Based Simulation 2001 Miller John A Paul A Fishwick et al. Simulation Practice and Theory 9 55-72

[21] Risk Analysis Without Monte Carlo Simulation, 2000, Sweeting Jack, The Cost Engineer May 2000 17-20

[22] Simulation and the Semantic Web - Miller, J A., Baramidze, G., - 2005. - Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference.

[23] SRML case study: simple self-describing process modeling and simulation, Reichenthal, S.W. 2004, Simulation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter - Volume: 2, pp 1461- 1466 - ISBN: 0-7803-8786-4.

[24] The Modeling Methodological Impacts of Web-Based Simulation 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin J. Healy, Thread Technologies Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University Proceedings of the 1998 SCS International Conference on Web-Based Simulation San Diego 123-128.

[25] The Rise of Web-Based Simulation: Implications for the High Level Architecture 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference Washington DC p 1663-1668

[26] Visualization and Modelling for Intelligent Systems. Crapo, A. W., Waisel, L. B., Wallace, W. A., Willemain, T. R., 2002. In: C. T. Leondes, ed. Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Volume I Implementation Techniques, 2002 pp 53-85.

[27] Visualization and the process of modeling: a cognitive-theoretic view - Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data - Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - Andrew W. Crapo, Laurie B. Waisel, William A. Wallace, Thomas R. Willemain.

[28] Web-Based Simulation: Revolution or Evolution? 1999 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Ernest H. Page, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin Healy, ThreadTec, Inc. Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Other Publications

Links

Internal

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#ScientificModelling.

Simula - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/EndUserHistory/Simula.htm.

External

BCS (British computer Society) - Dealing with complexity in large-scale complex IT systems - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.17049 - 'We (the UK engineering population) are currently unprepared or at least under prepared for large scale complex IT projects' said Stuart Jobbins, from Rolls Royce, one of the introductory speakers at a recent BCS Thought Leadership debate. - The second speaker was Professor Justin Keen (University of Leeds) who also had an interesting perspective on the nature of complexity and how organisations can potentially deal with ever increasing levels of increasing complexity in IT systems. They were joined by leading figures from the academic, medical and business communities to debate this issue. - January 2008.

Cosmic cookery: growing galaxies in a computer - http://royalsociety.org/exhibit.asp?id=3575 - EXHIBIT 15 - The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2005 - Scientists at the University of Durham are attempting to recreate the entire evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to the present day using 'The Cosmology Machine', one of the 'top 500' supercomputers in the world.

End User Programming for Scientists: Modeling Complex Systems - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1077/ - Andrew Begel - Microsoft Research - In: End-User Software Engineering - Dagstuhl Seminar - Summary - http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=2007081 - Margaret M. Burnett, Gregor Engels, Brad A. Myers and Gregg Rothermel - From 18.01.07 to 23.02.07, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07081 End-User Software Engineering was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.

ESA - An ESA Approach to Linked Cost-Engineering Databases - http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/pff/pffv7n1/novv7n1.htm - M. Novara System Studies Division, ESTEC, G. Wnuk - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC.

ESA - Cost - Engineering - http://www.esa.int/techresources/ESTEC-Article-fullArticle_item_selected-39_1_00_par-50_1100182718714.html.

ESA - Engineering Costing Techniques in ESA - http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet81/greve81.htm - D. Greves &: B. Schreiber - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

ESA - Modelling and Simulation - http://www.esa.int/TEC/Modelling_and_simulation/.

ESA - Reduced Model Simulations for the CDF - http://www.esa.int/techresources/ESTEC-Article-fullArticle_par-28_1191248174974.html - 12 December 2007 - Accurate simulations of complex systems require complex numerical models and are consequently expensive in terms of computation time, whereas preliminary design phases require fast simulations in order to evaluate, at system level, multiple technical solutions.

ESA - Simulation Model Portability - http://www.esa.int/TEC/Modelling_and_simulation/TEC2DCNWTPE_0.html - ESA has been involved in space simulation development for a number of years, and is developing simulations for a variety of applications including analysis, engineering, test and validation, operations preparation and training. These simulators are developed by different groups and at different stages within a space project. In order to decrease the overall simulator development cost within a space project, ESA has been leading the development of the Simulation Model Portability (SMP) specification.

ESM'2007, October 22-24, 2007 - European Simulation and Modelling Conference - More details - SIMULA Workshop: "40 Years of SIMULA, the first OO Simulation Language." - Workshop Simulation with Petri Nets - Workshop Modelling and Simulation with Bond Graphs - DEVS Workshop - CoSSoM'07 - Complex systems and self-organization modelling - Fluid Flow Modelling Simulation Workshop - Workshop on Multi-agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S) - Simulation of Electrical Systems - Westin Dragonara Hotel, St. Julian's, Malta.

ESM'2009 -THE 23RD EUROPEAN SIMULATION AND MODELLING CONFERENCE - October 26-28 - Holiday Inn Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/200 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/1057.

FUBUTEC 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/94 - April 9-11, 2008, FEUP-University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - 5th Annual Future Business Technology Conference 2008 - Limiting Risk in Business through Simulation. - Final Programme available from - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/722 and http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/456 and http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/721.

Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation - http://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~pball/simulation/simulate.html - Peter Ball Design Manufacture & Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde.

ISC 2007 - Industrial Simulation Conference - Delft University of Technology - Delft, The Netherlands.

ISC'2008 (Industrial Simulation Conference), which will be held at the University of Lyon, France from June 9-11, 2008 - 2007 conference page - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/182.

Mosaic Portrait - http://mosaicportrait.co.uk/ - Mosaic Portrait solves the most important task of Artificial Intelligence - the generation of new systemic knowledge from available data. This new non-trivial knowledge, in the form of rules and hypotheses, is applied to resolve many practical problems and exploit otherwise hidden potentials in diverse areas of human activity including pharmaceutical and medical fields, finance and risk management, and industrial and manufacturing applications.

Nasa Aircraft Engines - Simulation - Requires Java Virtual Machine (free download) - EngineSim Version 1.7a .

Parallel Planet Earth Being Created - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/parallel-planet.html - Daily Galaxy - News - US Department of Defense (DOD) is developing a parallel mirror of Planet Earth on a massive, global scale, called the Sentient World Simulation. Billions of individual "nodes" virtually reflect every man, woman, and child. - July 24, 2007.

Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference - http://www.informs-cs.org/wsc05papers/297.pdf - Simulation and the Semantic Web - M. E. Kuhl, N. M. Steiger, F. B. Armstrong, and J. A. Joines, eds.

Process Pad - http://www.demoprocessmaster.com/main.html - Welcome to Process Master HTML Outputs - To view some examples of ProcessPad HTML Outputs, please click on one of the links below.

Simulation and the Semantic Web - Miller, J A., Baramidze, G., - 2005. - Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference.

So you think you can design an Aeroengine? - http://royalsociety.org/exhibit.asp?id=4662 - Economic development and the desire of modern society to travel mean that the number of flights taken worldwide is increasing 8% year on year. As a result, air travel is fast becoming a major contributor to climate change. Flying to Australia and back generates more carbon dioxide than the average driver in one year. 'The trick of keeping hundreds of tonnes of people and machine in the air and transporting them thousands of miles will always have some environmental consequences, the aim is to minimise the impact', says Phil Withers of the School of Materials at the University of Manchester. - Using state of the art techniques, Phil and his colleagues are working with Rolls-Royce to ensure the safety of new materials and manufacturing processes for the next generation of jet engines. - So You Think You Can Design a Jet Engine PDF.

So you think you can design an Aeroengine? - Source the Royal Society

SRML - Simulation Reference Markup Language - http://www.w3.org/TR/SRML/ - W3C Note 18 December 2002.

SRML case study: simple self-describing process modeling and simulation - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1371486 - Reichenthal, S.W. Boeing, Anaheim, CA, USA;

The Sim Blog - http://thesimblog.org/ - The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics related to all areas of discrete event simulation, robotic simulation, and PLC emulation. - Joe Hugan.

Vanguard System - Web-based Collaborative Modeling for Enterprise Simulation and Planning - http://www.vanguardsw.com/vanguard-system/vanguard-system.pdf.

VisSim - http://www.vissim.com/ - VisSim is a visual block diagram language for modeling and simulation of complex nonlinear dynamic systems.

VizNET UK - http://www.viznet.ac.uk/ - Researchers in scientific, engineering, social sciences,and the arts and humanities communities are generating ever increasing amounts of complex data. Analysis and presentation of this data in meaningful and optimal manner relies on effective use of visualization techniques. vizNET (a UK National Visualization Network) a collaboration between a number of visualization centres in the UK has been established to share knowledge, communicate best practice between application domains, provide training and support to researchers in visualization. vizNET is in the process of establishing a Visualization Support Network spanning the UK Academic Research Community. vizNET will offer technical guidance to new users (entry level visualization) to advanced users (expert visualization users). Consolidating the strengths of major visualization centres and groups across the UK will help the UK to realize the full potential of emerging visualization techniques and resources at a National and Regional level. vizNET is funded by the JISC Support of Research Committee.

Software Engineering

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm.

Systems Engineering

Management of Complexity

Cagle [1] explains that "You can never eliminate complexity from a system, you can only move it from place to place". Booch [2] states "Systems are becoming more complex, and often try to overcome complexity with more complexity. A bad process itself can amplify complexity." He also explains that developers should produce simpler software that increases productivity. He recommends to "grow a system's architecture through the incremental and iterative release of testable executables". This is the approach used throughout the thesis, and for this purpose, software has been released via the web in order to receive feedback. The purpose of the research is to allow software developers to deal with complexity as far as possible in order to leave the end-user free to model their own problems. Ciocoiu et al. [3] explain that growing complexity in manufacturing hinders the ability to share information as the meaning is affected by its context.

[1] Cagle, K, 2006. Thoughts on Complexity http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/03/thoughts_on_complexity.html.

[2] Booch, G., 2007. The beauty of software. British Computer Society Turing Lecture March 2007.

[3] Ontologies for Integrating Engineering Applications - Mihai Ciocoiu, Michael Gruninger, Dana S. Nau, 2000. - Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 1(1) pp 12-22.

Internal Links

OntoREM: Ontology-driven Requirements Engineering Methodology - This research aims to investigate and develop an Ontology driven Requirements Engineering Methodology (OntoREM) that addresses the needs of complex, trans-national and multidisciplinary fields with particular reference but not limited to the aerospace industry.

SEEDS (Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support) Research Site Map - Text Only Site Map

Software Engineering Research Group - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/researchgroup.php?menu=off&group=serg - SERG's mission is to bridge the gap between software engineering research and its application to different disciplines.

SoAgile: Adaptive Model-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures for Agile Cyber-Enterprise Processes - The SoAgile project aims to design, develop, demonstrate, and disseminate a service-adaptable virtualisation layer and an encompassing evolutionary service-oriented and model-driven engineering environment.

Peter Hale's SERG and CCCS (Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems) Page

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/members.php?menu=off&expand=peterhale#peterhale.

External Links

A Space Surveillance Ontology: Captured in an XML Schema - http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/space_pulvermacher.pdf - October 2000, Mary K. Pulvermacher - Daniel L. Brandsma - John R. Wilson.

Aeronautical Information (AICM/AIXM) - http://www.eurocontrol.int/aim/public/standard_page/interop_aicm.html - AICM is a conceptual/logical model that uses entities, attributes and relationships in order to describe aeronautical features such as airports, runways, navaids, obstacles, routes, terminal procedures, airspace structures, services and related aeronautical data.

Athena - European Integrated Project - http://www.athena-ip.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=89 - ATHENA - Advanced Technologies for interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications - is an Integrated Project sponsored by the European Commission in support of the Strategic Objective 'Networked businesses and government'.

Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Correct Spreadsheets, 2005, ICSE 2005 27th International Conference on Software Engineering p 136- 145.

BBC Radio 4 - Connect - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/connect/pip/69tbv/ - Quentin Cooper presents the series exploring the application of technology to solve problems on a human scale. Quentin explores the science that helps to keep transport moving in extreme weather. - 5 September 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - From the production line to the NHS - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070104.shtml - Peter Day finds out how some NHS pioneers are trying to apply the mysteries of "lean" operating systems to hospitals and doctors' practices. Japanese management techniques have revolutionised the car industry, but what do waste-averse production lines have to do with the delicate business of health care? - 2 November 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - In Business - Computers Chipped - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070906.shtml - For 40 years, computer chips have doubled in speed and power every two years. But maintaining the pace of improvement is becoming more difficult. Peter Day investigates. - 6 September 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - In Business - Lean Manufacturing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml - If your normal experience of customer service is the sound of a machine putting you on hold you may want to listen to this edition of In Business. - Peter Day talks with people who think there is a better, leaner way learning from decades of experience of the Toyota way of making cars. It's called Lean Manufacturing and it could be the way to put the customer at heart of the service industry. - 31st January 2008.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20061214.shtml - 2nd item - Complexity Science 14th December 2nd Item - Complexity Science is a broad and multi-disciplinary subject covering biology, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Complexity Scientists study large and complex systems, often turning to the natural world for inspiration on how these systems operate.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - Systems Biology - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld.shtml - Understanding our biological system - virtually! - Systems Biology - Advances in computing power have heralded a new frontier in science - where computing meets biology. - UK funding for the new science of Systems Biology has topped £100 million in the last 3 years. - Supercomputers are making very sophisticated replicas of biological process and even virtual organs - like the heart - to test new drugs and medicines. We meet one of the pioneers of this new science Denis Noble, and ask how this research will revolutionise medicine... - Quentin is joined by Denis Noble, from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Oxford University and Jaroslav Stark from Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College, University of London. - Thursday 31st January 2008.

BBC Science/Technology News - 'Big Bang' experiment starts well - Engineering - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7595855.stm - The Large Hadron Collider is not just an extraordinary science experiment, it is also a remarkable engineering undertaking. As BBC science reporter James Morgan relates, just getting it built is an astonishing story in itself. - 6 September 2008.

Bournemouth University - Software Systems Modelling Group - School of Design, Engineering and Computing - http://www.sosym.co.uk/ - The Software Systems Modelling Group (SoSyM) is a multi-disciplinary computing group focussing on the research, development and application of innovative modelling, tools and technologies for software systems.

BCS (British computer Society) - Health Informatics Now - The number's up - The way forward for the ongoing work on electronic health records was put under the microscope at a recent BCS Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) workshop. - British Computer Society 2007.

Clockwork - http://clockwork.open.ac.uk/ - Open - University - Knowledge Media Institute - Creating Learning Organisations with Contextualised Knowledge-Rich work Artifacts.

Complexity Digest - http://www.comdig.org/ - Networking the Complexity Community.

DAME - diagnostics and decision support across the Grid - The Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield, and York together with commercial partners Data Systems and Solutions, Rolls-Royce, Cybula are collaborating on the DAME project to demonstrate how Grid technology can form the basis of a decision support system using distributed data mining and analysis.

DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making - Preview - JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4 - James Scanlan and Abhijit Rao - Southampton University - Christophe Bru, Peter Hale, and Rob Marsh - UWE.

Decision Support Systems - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalimpactfactors.cws_home/505540/description#impactfactor - and Electronic Commerce - Journal.

Decision Support System Resources - http://www.DSSResources.COM/ - DSSResources.COM (Decision Support Systems Resources) is a web-based knowledge repository. The mission of this site is to help people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making.

Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2008 - http://www.infocybereng.org/imeti2008/website/default.asp?vc=20 - June 29^th - July 2^nd, 2008 - Orlando, Florida, USA - Engineering activities are based on the development of new Knowledge (scientia), new 'made things' (techné) and/or new ways of working and doing (praxis). Scientia, Techné and praxis are three important dimensions of a comprehensive conception of Engineering as a whole. Engineering, as Scientia, is mostly developed in academia; as techné is practiced in industry generating technological innovations; and as praxis is carried out in technical and non-technical organizations, supporting managerial activities and technical procedures, via methodical and methodological design and implementation. This is why Engineering provides one of the most solid academic and professional substrata for bridging among Universities, industries and governments. - Publications and conferences related to Engineering are usually oriented to one of its three dimensions. While this is an adequate thing to do when disciplinary focus is sought, it does not represent Engineering as a whole and it misses the very important synergic relationships among the three kinds of engineering activities mentioned above. This is why a group of scholars, professionals and consultants, in the field of engineering, considered the possibility of initiating a publishing process and organizing a conference where presentations will not be reduced to one of the Engineering's dimensions, but to foster the participation of academics, practitioners and managers in the three dimensions of Engineering, in the same conference, or in the same publication, so they can synergistically interact with each other. A consequence of this purpose is the organization of IMETI 2008, and the publication of multiple-author books series, where submissions will be accepted for the presentation of:

New knowledge (Engineering as Scientia);
New products and services, i.e. technological innovations (Engineering as techné);
New technical and managerial methods and methodologies (Engineering as praxis);
New meta-engineering (Engineering of Engineering activities) knowledge, innovations and methodologies.

More details regarding the notion of Engineering and reasoning supporting the definition given above can be found in the article "The Essence of Engineering and Meta-Engineering: A Work in Progress" (Callaos, 2008) which is available at http://www.iiis.org/Nagib-Callaos/Engineering-and-Meta-Engineering/.

Engineering ontologies - http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/tradepress/eng.html - Anthony Hunter.

Gartner Group Report - Gartner Says Business Application Vendors Face Challenge to Move to ' The Process of Me' - http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_152638_11.html - Person to Process Interaction is the Next Innovation Step in Business Software Press Release 2006.

How novices formulate models. Part II: a quantitative description of behaviour - http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/2602279a.html - T R Willemain and S G Powell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA - Journal of the Operational Research Society 2006, pp1-12.

INCOSE - International Council on systems Engineering - Bristol - http://www.incose.org.uk/bristol.htm - Welcome to the homepage of the Bristol Local Group of INCOSE UK. Information related to the purpose of the group, forthcoming events and contact details.

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC) - http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmic.

INTEROP Portal - http://www.interop-noe.org/ - Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software.

Interoperability for Enterprise Software & Applications - http://interop-vlab.eu/newsletter/newsletter-nb02/ - December 2007 - Founded in March 2007 in Brussels as a Not-for-profit International Association under the Belgian law (AISBL), INTEROP-VLab is rapidly extending its membership and deploying its activity.

Matlab - Aerospace Toolbox 1.0 - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/products/aerotb/ - Aerospace reference standards, environmental models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing.

Matlab - Improving an Engine Cooling Fan Using Design for Six Sigma Techniques - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/company/newsletters/digest/2006/july/cooling.html?s_cid=MLD0706ukTA2 - MATLAB Digest - July 2006 - Stuart Koxala and Dan Doherty.

MATLAB Digest - January 2007 - Accelerating Flight Vehicle Design - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/company/newsletters/digest/2007/jan/flightsim.html - By Arkadiy Turevskiy, Stacey Gage, and Craig Buhr.

MetaEdit+ DSM environment - http://www.metacase.com/ - MetaEdit+ is aimed at the expert developer looking to gain productivity by generating full code directly from models. First you design the modeling language with MetaEdit+ Workbench and then other developers model with the language in MetaEdit+.

MODAF.com - http://www.modaf.com/ - MODAF provides a rigorous way to present an enterprise architecture, and is a key enabler to MOD's Network Enabled Capability (NEC). It defines a set of key business and technical information for describing an enterprise architecture.

MOdel driven MOdernisation of Complex Systems - http://www.viewzone.org/momocs/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=17 -MOMOCS aims at studying a methodology and related tools for fast reengineering complex systems. The project is studying how to solve the dilemma between rigorous methodologies and agile and unstructured one, allowing the modernisation engineer to concentrate on what to do and not how to do it.

Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS) - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/nodes/MoSeS/ - Moses is a three year project running at the University of Leeds from September 2005. - The objective of the project is to develop representation of the entire UK population as individuals and households, together with a package of modelling tools which allows specific research and policy questions to be addressed. The components of the Moses project are a baseline representation of the UK population; a dynamic modelling capability; a grid-enabled portal for policy analysis; and a series of application scenarios.

Multidisciplinary Design Tools for Affordability - (2003) - Blair M., Hartong A. - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Technosoft - AML, Adaptive Modeling Language.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Process Specification Language (PSL) - A Few PSL Basics....

Past, present, and future of decision support technology - Decision Support Systems - Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2002, Pages 111-126 - J.P. Shim, Merrill Warkentin, James F. Courtney, Daniel J. Power.

Publications about e-Science - Research Councils UK - http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/publications - Including e-Science Highlights.

Rolls-Royce - Securing the Future at Rolls-Royce - http://www.e-steel.com/resources/pdfs/Rolls-Royce_A_Closer_Look.pdf - Managing Materials Risk for the Extended Supply Chain.

SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML - http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-05-21-a.html - Cover Pages - W3C has acknowledged receipt of a Member Submission from the National Research Council of Canada, Network Inference, and Stanford University for SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML. The submission has been made in association with the Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee. - May 21, 2004.

SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML - http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/ - W3C Member Submission 21 May 2004 - This document contains a proposal for a Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) based on a combination of the OWL DL and OWL Lite sublanguages of the OWL Web Ontology Language with the Unary/Binary Datalog RuleML sublanguages of the Rule Markup Language.

SWRLEditorFAQ - Protégé Wiki - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SWRLEditorFAQ - The SWRL Editor is an extension to the Protege-OWL SWRLTab that supports the editing of SWRL rules. It can be used to create SWRL rules, edit existing SWRL rules, and read and write SWRL rules.

SWRLLanguageFAQ - Protégé Wiki - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SWRLLanguageFAQ - SWRL is an acronym for Semantic Web Rule Language. It is intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web. SWRL is based on a combination of the OWL DL and OWL Lite sublanguages of the OWL Web Ontology Language.

SWRLTab - Protégé Wiki - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SWRLTab - The SWRLTab is a development environment for working with SWRL rules in Protege-OWL. It supports the editing and execution of SWRL rules.

System Engineering AIN Public Web pages - Systems Engineering AIN Web Page, Systems Engineering AIN Word/PDF - System Engineering.

TANET - Technology Application Network - TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION SPANNING the whole of the UNITED KINGDOM AND BEYOND! - TANet is a unique network of over 20 co-operating Universities, Technology Centres and Key Business Partners providing the most comprehensive support for the SME Manufacturing sector for the whole of the UK.

Technosoft Adaptive Modelling - http://www.technosoft.com/publications.php.

Technosoft Adaptive Modelling - http://www.technosoft.com/docs/AIAA_2002_1296_SDM_02.pdf - STRUCTURAL DESIGN, ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, AND COST MODELING USING THE ADAPTIVE MODELING LANGUAGE.

The Sim Blog - http://thesimblog.org/ - The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics related to all areas of discrete event simulation, robotic simulation, and PLC emulation. - Joe Hugan.

Vanguard Home Page - http://www.vanguardsw.com/

Vanguard - (Systems Thinking Specialists) - http://www.lean-service.com/home.asp - The Toyota System for Service Organisations.

Visualisation

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.htm.

Conferences - recent and future

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Currently we have a two-centre lecture series and are now intending to establish a further centre in the South West. This would enable both interested industry and academic bodies to benefit. - Further Information - Word - Adobe PDF.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorth.htm - The British Computer Society's SocioTech group hosts talks and events that relate to IT technology and its social impact. The talks are an excellent opportunity to find out about the variety of work in academic research and industry.

Conferences - Computing and Aerospace

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/Events.htm.

Modelling Conferences - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#Conferencesrecentandfuture.

Software Engineering Conferences - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#Conferences.

Local Events

BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

INCOSE

http://incoseonline.org.uk/Groups/Bristol/Bristol_Calendar.aspx?CatID=Groups&CalendarType=Bristol

23/09/2009 -
23/09/2009

18:30

Bristol Local Group

Room 1N05 on the University of the West of England (UWE), Frenchay Campus, Bristol

Developing Systems Delivery Capability in the South West
Over the past two years Paul Shakspeare has been leading a project funded by the South West RDA to identify and resolve strategic skills gaps in the aerospace sector. As a result of this work a training and development strategy to respond to the skill shortages and professional development needs critical to the successful delivery of complex systems has been formulated. This session gives systems engineers, project managers and HR professionals a chance to feed into this process and help steer regional strategy and its associated funding.

Other Conferences

Systems Engineering, Estimation, Decision Support - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/#Conferencesrecentandfuture.

2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2008 (http://www.sciiis.org/KGCM2008); will be held jointly with The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing: KCPR 2008, and The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences: KCC 2008. It will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on June 29th to July 2nd, 2008.

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - http://ase.cs.uni-essen.de/ase/past/ase2005/ - Long Beach, California, USA, November 7-11, 2005 - papers, demonstrations, tutorials.

30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - http://icse08.upb.de/ - The International Conference on Software Engineering is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering. - 10 - 18 May, 2008 in Leipzig, Germany.

Asian Simulation Technology Conference ASTEC 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/19 - The aim of the Asian Simulation Technology Conference is to give a state of the art overview of industrial simulation related basic research and to provide an annual status report on present day simulation research within a particular Asian country in relation to other Asian/Australasian countries and the rest of the world.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 24th January 2008 - title : Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like - speaker: Neil Maiden, Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interface Design - Requirements, City University School of Informatics - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Specifying requirements is too often seen as a "stenographer's task". The requirements engineer passively listens and records while the stakeholders state their needs. However, this approach relies on stakeholders knowing what they need, and what they want. But people do not know what they want until they see it. Most useful products come not from stakeholders' imagination, but from an invention. Neil shows that requirements engineering should be a creative process and describes techniques to invent requirements based on results from current research. - Neil has directed inter-disciplinary research in requirements engineering for 15 years and is the Editor of the IEEE Software's Requirements column.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 21st February 2008 title : Agile Programme Management - speaker : Jennifer Stapleton, Stapleton Business Solutions - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Jennifer will talk about how Programmes can be structured, governed and managed so that they can be as responsive to internal and external change as the business requires. - Jennifer has been cited by PMI as one of the world’s most influential women in project and Programme management for her work in the agile arena, particularly in DSDM. She was Technical Director of the DSDM Consortium for 11 years and is the author of "DSDM, Business Focused Development".

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Tuesday 11th March 2008 title : A Practical Method for Complex Business Change Projects: Soft Systems Methods and Public Private speaker : Dr Peter Parkes, Managing Director, Peak Performance venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London -Change Projects are inherently complex. Partnerships, and particularly Public Private Partnerships, are notoriously difficult to govern. Putting the two together has led to some major failures in Benefits Realisation. Peter will talk about practical application of soft systems methods to bid and deliver these challenging projects in complex environments.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Wednesday 26th March 2008 title : The Scientist, the Accountant, and the Boardroom - speaker : Professor Clive Holtham, Information Management, Cass Business School, City University of London - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - With the CIO at the boardroom table, have we reached the end of the journey? Or is the information scientist about to grab the Finance Director's hand in a paradigm shift in strategic management? It took the intersection of information management and information technology to move IT from service provider to business enabler. Now the intersection with accountancy and general management beckons another step change in the intelligent exploitation of IT – is this a threat or opportunity for the IT profession?

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 17th April 2008 title : Science and Engineering: a collusion of cultures - speaker : Professor Sir Tony Hoare, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London (Joint event with Kingston and Croydon Branch) - Pure Science and practical Engineering lie at two ends of a wide cultural spectrum, diametrically opposed across many dimensions. In every branch of Engineering Science, the intellectual integrity of the discipline, as well as its practical utility, requires that these cultures must not collide. Rather, they must collude in the old etymological sense of playing fairly together. A particular example treated in this talk is the collusion of the Science of Programming with the Engineering of Software.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 15th May 2008 title : AGM, followed by: Why are Projects Still Failing? - speaker : Richard Morreale, Inspiration Systems - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Why, after spending loads of money over the last 30 years on project management tools, methods and techniques are projects still failing at about the same rate they did 30 years ago? Richard presents what he sees as the issues and what can be done about them. Richard ensures that this will be not only a great session with lots to think about but will also be fun.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 24 January 2008 IT at JET - A Challenging Fusion Research Environment.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 21 February 2008 How Big Business learned to love Virtual Worlds.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 13 March 2008 What's Hot.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 24 April 2008 Annual Branch Visit: Technology in Action - Shrivenham.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 22 May 2008 Education in the Internet Age and Branch AGM.

Bristol & Area Regional Group of the Ergonomics Society (BARGES) - http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/page.php?p=31&s=11 - BARGES meetings are held on Tuesdays at 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start. The location is Ergo Innovation, Unit 1.16 Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol BS4 3EH. Dates to be advised.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - 2008 - January 30th - Dr John P Carney - Industrial and Academic Co-ordinator DSTL/MOD - Confessions of a Knowledge Manager - January 30th.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Feb 13th - Dr Gordon Hunter - The University of Lethbridge, Canada - Qualitative Research Methods: Fieldwork Experience.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Karen Gadd : TBA.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Alistair Sutcliffe: Professor Deputy Head of School of Informatics, University of Manchester - Re-defining Design Quality in HCI.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Gus Hosein : Visiting Fellow in the Information Systems Group, Department of Management, LSE - Co-director of the Policy Engagement Network, LSE - Senior Fellow, Privacy International - Visiting Scholar, American Civil Liberties Union project on Technology and Liberty - The Danger of Mixing Politics and and System Specifications: the National Identity Scheme and its Challenges.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - 25th April 2007 - Ann Blandford: Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of UCL Interaction Centre - Understanding the CASSMs in interactions between users and systems.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Dr Nadia Papamichail - Manchester Business School - 7th May 2008 - Best practice in decision making.

CAiSE'08 - The 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'08) - http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/ - 16-20 June 2008, Montpellier, France.

CE 2007 - The 14th International Conference on Conccurrent Engineering - http://ce2007.lit.inpe.br/ - Welcome to the official CE'2007 website - Brazil 16th - 20th July.

Choose and Book - Achievements, challenges, benefits and the future - British Computer Society - http://www.hinorth.bcs.org.uk/ - Speaker: Nic Fox, Development Team Manager, National Choose and Book Team, NHS Connecting for Health - Next Meeting Tuesday, 12th February 2008Choose and Book has been in live operation since the summer of 2004. The NHS is increasingly leveraging the technology and in many health communities Choose and Book is becoming the everyday standard way to refer.

Code Generation 2007 - http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2007/ - 18th-20th May 2007 - Cambridge, UK - Code Generation, Model-Driven Software Development.

Code Generation 2008 - http://www.codegeneration.net/conference/index.php - 25th-28th June 2008 - Cambridge, UK - A growing number of developers are using or planning to use model-based code generation - are you ready for the next evolutionary step in software? - WHO'S CG2008 FOR? - CG2008 is for software practitioners and those with a stake in the future of their development organisation..

Final Call for Speakers:

Submission Deadline: Friday January 18th 2008

We are seeking high-quality session proposals covering topics on model-driven software development (including Software Factories, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), Generative Programming, Software Product Lines and related areas).

Sessions could cover topics such as:

- Code Generation and Model Transformation tools and approaches

- Defining and implementing modelling languages

- Domain Analysis and Domain Engineering

- Language evolution and modularization

- Meta Modelling

- Runtime virtual machines versus direct code generation

- Tool and technology adoption

http://www.codegeneration.net/conference/index.php.

CSIE - 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009) - http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009/index.html - March 31 - April 2, 2009 - Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA - CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering.

Digital Enterprise Technology DET2007 - http://www.det-conf.org.uk/index.html - Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) is "the collection of systems and methods for the digital modelling and analysis of the global product development and realisation process, in the context of lifecycle management." The principal aim of DET 2007 is to provide an international forum for the exchange of leading edge scientific knowledge and industrial experience regarding the development and integration of the various aspects of DET - 19-21 September 2007.

ECEC 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/98 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology (Eurosis).

ECEC'2008 - Concurrent Engineering - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/433 - April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - The conference aim of ECEC'2008 is to provide European Researchers with a forum, where they can discuss the latest developments linked to concurrent engineering focused on European research projects.

EMMSAD ' 08 - http://www.emmsad.org/ - 16-17 June, 2008, Montpellier, France - held in conjunction with CAiSE '08.

New knowledge (Engineering as Scientia);
New products and services, i.e. technological innovations (Engineering as techné);
New technical and managerial methods and methodologies (Engineering as praxis);
New meta-engineering (Engineering of Engineering activities) knowledge, innovations and methodologies.

Enterprising architecture - http://www.opengroup.org/glasgow2008/ - The 18th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Glasgow, 21 - 23 April, will seek to detail the core elements of an enterprise architecture that provides the foundation for a dynamic and successful business environment.

ESM 2006 - European Simulation and Modelling Conference - October 23-25, 2006 - LAAS, Toulouse, France.

ESM'2009 -THE 23RD EUROPEAN SIMULATION AND MODELLING CONFERENCE - August 15-20 - Holiday Inn Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/200 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/1057.

ESS 2007 - The Embedded Systems Show - http://www.edaexhibitions.com/ess/index.htm - Come and see the complete range of embedded system development technology - 17-18th October 2007.

EUROMEDIA 2008 - 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 - UNIVERSITY OF PORTO - PORTUGAL - APRIL 9-11, 2008 - The 2008 Euromedia conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. - More info about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 - The workshops page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 - especially the track on D-TV - The venue page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/478 - The hotel page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/471.

EUROSIS Conferences Overview - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/2 - EUROSIS organizes a number of conferences each year covering as many aspects as possible of computer simulation and modelling. Here follows the listing of events in chronological order. If you want more information about the specific events please go to the specific conference pages above or below.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - "The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology".

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/119 - GAMEON-NA 2008, August 13-15, 2008 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada (http://www.mcgill.ca/) - The aim of the 4th annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn'NA 2008) is to bring together academics, researchers and games people from North America in order to exchange ideas on higher-level concepts that contribute to the field of computer gaming research.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - GAME-ON 2008, November 17-19, 2008 (websites coming online shortly) - Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain - in combination with the first Spanish Games Conference.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/205 - MESM'2008, August 26-28, 2008 - 2008 (websites coming online shortly) - Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan - With an inclusive conference trip to Petra.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/145 - NASTEC' 2008, August 13-15, 2008 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Eurosis - ESM'2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/129 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/21 - October 27-29, 2008 - 2008 - Universite du Havre. Le Havre, France with a trip to Honfleur and Mont Saint Michel - The 22nd annual ESM 2008 (European Simulation and Modelling Conference) is the original European international conference concerned with state of the art technology in modelling and simulation. ESM 2008 aims to provide an overview of academic research in the field of computer simulation.

Eurosis - NASTEC' 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/145 - August 13-15, 2008 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada. - Themes Soft Computing, Web Computing and VR.

Eurosis - 2009 so far confirmed

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - ISC'2009, June 2009 Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - MESM'2009 - University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/21 - ESM'2009, October 2009 De Monfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - GAME-ON 2009, November 2009 - University of Applied Sciences, Dusseldorf, Germany.

2010 so far confirmed

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - ISC'2010, June 2010 Budapest, Hungary.

EuroSys2007 - Call for Papers - Lisbon from March 21st to 23rd 2007.

Eurosis - ECEC'2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/123 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

Eurosis - Euromedia 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/cms/?q=node/147 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

Eurosis - FUBUTEC 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/98 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

FOODSIM2008 - Dublin, Ireland - June 26-28, 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/105 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/513 - Bi-Annual - MODELLING AND SIMULATION - IN FOOD ENGINEERING 2008.

Grand Challenges in Computing Research - GCCR'08 - From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020 - British Computer Society BCS - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9891 - GCCR'08 will take place over two days from 18-19 March 2008 in London. It is timed to follow on from the Ubiquitous Computing discussion meeting being held at the Royal Society on 17-18 March - As indicated in the title GCCR'08 will focus on the research grand challenges that were established by UKCRC in 2002.

IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) - http://www.iadis.org/ - Home page with Conference Details.

IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2007 http://www.mccsis.org/ - Lisbon, Portugal 3 - 8 July 2007.

IASTED 2008 - Software Engineering - http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-598.html - SE 2008 - as part of the 26th IASTED International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS - February 12 - 14, 2008 Innsbruck, Austria.

ICE'2008: the 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENTERPRISING - Lisbon - Portugal, 23-25 June 2008 - http://www.ice-conference.org/ - The ICE conference is a premier forum to enable practitioners, researchers as well as tool vendors to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their work in the broad domain of Concurrent Enterprising.

IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/ - September 17-19, 2007 - Irvine, California, USA - The field Semantic Computing applies technologies in natural language processing, data and knowledge engineering, software engineering, computer systems and networks, signal processing and pattern recognition, and any combination of the above to extract, access, transform and synthesize the semantics (contents) of multimedia, texts, services and structured data.

I-ESA 2008 - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2008/ - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2008/doc/programme_brochure.pdf - Interoperability for Enterprise Software Applications - Pre-conference March 25th 2008 - Conference March 26th - 28th 2008 - Berlin, Germany.

IFAC conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing - http://cidyt.mty.itesm.mx/ifac-CEA07/ - IFAC - CEA - Monterrey - Mexico - October 2-5, 2007.

IFAC/IFIP/IFORS IEA Symposium - Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems - http://www.ifac-hms-2007.com/ - Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel Seoul Korea - September 4-6th 2007 - International Federation of Automatic Control.

IFAC World Congress - http://www.ifac2008.org/ - International Federation of Automatic Control - July 6th-11th Seoul - Korea.

IFIP 8.6 WG Conference on 'Open IT-based innovation' - http://ifip8-6.ceditec.etsit.upm.es/ - IFIP 8.6 2008, hosted by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. The conference will be held on October 22-24 2008 at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion. - Conference - Theme - Today, most innovative firms in the IT sector cannot possess all the knowledge and business assets they need to be competitive. They must frequently rely on formal and informal agreements with partners not only in order to cooperate in technology/product development or system integration, but also to complete their capabilities in the associated technology transfer or diffusion activities. As a consequence, technology based innovation processes are changing to adapt themselves to deep changes in organisational contexts and they are becoming more open.

IICAI - 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - http://www.iiconference.org/ - 17th-19th December 2007 - The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in AI and related fields in India and the rest of the world. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between AI researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in India and abroad. The conference will be held every two years to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in AI and related areas.

International Conference on Digital Factory (ICDF 2008) - http://www.icdf2008.info/ - Coimbatore (India) from August 11-13 - In high precision manufacturing industries, digital systems are widely used to automate various systems and processes. The advances in microchip and computer technology have bridged the gap between traditional electronic control and process control engineering. The increasing demand on quality and productivity of products and services change the industrial dynamics on several fronts including economics, research, technical knowledge, cost, reliability, modernization and so on. To match these demands of increased quality at lower cost, more and more industries are moving towards digital technology. Digital based technology in modern systems established in every field is already changing the existing traditional systems. Besides globalised e-commerce, manufacturing with its growing knowledge is more and more being operated on internet platform also.

International Symposium 2008 (IS2008) - INCOSE - http://www.incose.org/symp2008/ - Systems Engineering for the Planet - The Netherlands - 15-19th June - On behalf of the Netherlands Chapter of INCOSE, and of the Region 3 Planning Committee of the International Symposium 2008 (IS2008), I invite you to join us for the world's premier Systems Engineering Event that takes place at the Jaarbeurs Conference Center (Beatrix building), Utrecht, the Netherlands.

International Workshop on Advanced Information Systems for Enterprises (IWAISE'08) - http://www2.lifl.fr/iwaise08/cfp.html - explores trends in the development of advanced information systems for enterprises and investigates various research issues of this domain.

Interop Events - http://interop-vlab.eu/Events - Presentation of events around Enterprise Interoperability.

INTEROP-VLab UK Pole event will be held on 25-26 February 2008, in University of Coventry (UK). Information to access will be available soon on the INTEROP-VLab portal (http://interop-vlab.eu/backoffice/interop-vlab-poles-news/interop-vlab-uk-pole-meeting) - It will be devoted to presenting the purpose and activities of the UK Pole and INTEROP-VLab. The second day will be devoted to discussing the INTEROP-VLab activities with the members/partners, but the meeting is far as possible open to non-partners - all participants to Monday meeting particularly welcome.

ISC 2007 - Industrial Simulation Conference - Delft University of Technology - Delft, The Netherlands.

ISC'2008 (Industrial Simulation Conference), which will be held at the University of Lyon, France from June 9-11, 2008 - More information about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/490 - The online registration forms for non-authors - https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/303 - the ISC'2008 final programme can now be downloaded in doc format from the following links - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/files/ISC2008FINPROG.doc and from http://www.eurosis.org/cms/files/isc/isc2008/ISC2008FINPROG.doc.

ISPE - The 14th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering:Research and Applications - http://www.ispe-org.net - July 16-20, 2007 - São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.

Leaders of Industry Conference - London 25th September 2007 - http://www.eiil.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=40 - Conference to be held at IMechE Headquarters, 1 Birdcage Walk, London - The European Engineer - An Endangered Species ? - 25th September 2007 [12.00 - 18.00] - Both European business and society in general have an obligation to ensure a home-grown supply of innovators to allow manufacturing and other technology-led business sectors to lead the world towards ever higher standards of operational efficiency and lower consumption of natural resources whilst at the same time meeting the increasing demands of global consumers. This requires an increase in the number of young people pursuing school and university choices that will enable them to pursue a career in science, engineering or related disciplines.

Model-Driven User-Centric Design and Engineering - MDUCDE 2007 - http://www.zmmi.de/MDUCDE2007/ - Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel Seoul Korea - September 5th 2007 - The workshop aims to: - Bring together a community integrating people and knowledge from human-computer interaction as well as human-machine interaction - Discuss issues on advanced and future user interface design, engineering, and automatic generation - Leveraging model-driven and automatic application of ergonomic knowledge in software and system engineering - Identify needs, goals, and future research areas in user-centric design.

Multi-Strand Conference: - http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cmc/ - Cranfield University, supported by BCS, is holding a multi-strand conference entitled 'Creating wealth through research and innovation' on 6-7 May. This new conference explores how wealth is created through research and innovation. - 6 - 7 May 2008 - Cranfield University - This new multi-strand conference explores how wealth is created through innovation by bringing together researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum. - A welcoming and supportive forum for early-stage researchers, with sessions across applied sciences, engineering, technology, applications and management - Research papers presented at the Conference will be formally published in the conference series of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and distributed to libraries worldwide. Full proceedings will be available to delegates in electronic format.

NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING - SUMMER SCHOOL NN2008 - http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt - July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal - The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). - Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a POSTER/WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

"New Business Opportunities in Space". One-day space conference. Organised by the West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF).

Tuesday 24 July 2007 at Exeter, Devon

Details http://www.weaf.co.uk

Space is a fast-growing business. Data from satellites of various kinds is finding ever wider applications. ESA and NASA have ambitious plans for new programmes involving human spaceflight. Space tourism is within sight of becoming a serious business. - WEAF is offering its members an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in this one-day conference. - The major players of the space industry will outline new opportunities, SMEs will be able to market themselves, and space tourism companies will outline their plans. - This is a conference for both aviation and space companies, because space tourism blends current space technology with carrying passengers safely, and this requires aviation skills and experience.

The New Space Age - Presentation to WEAF Space Conference - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/NewSpaceAgeWEAF.pdf - 24 July 2007 by David Ashford, Bristol Spaceplanes Limitedand - Fabian Eilingsfeld, Price Systems.

SME Presentation - Scisys - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/SCISYS_Space_2007.pdf - with a focus on Space Exploration... - Presentation to WEAF Space Conference - July 2007 - Chris Lee, SciSys Space - Chair of UKspace Space Science Industrial Committee.

SME Presentation - IGG Components - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/IGGSpacepresentationWEAF.pdf - Roger Buckley - IGG - ALTER Technology Group.

SME Presentation - SEA - Making a living in space - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/ChrisChalonerSEA.pdf - perspectives from the viewpoint of a South-West SME - Dr Chris P Chaloner - Business Development Executive, Aero-Space Division.

Putting the patient at the heart of care - http://www.phcsg.org.uk/ - Annual Conference - 28-29 September, Oxfordshire - The Primary Health Care Specialist Group is a specialist group of the British Computer Society, the chartered body for informatics professionals.

Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - IEEE ICSC2008 - http://icsc.eecs.uci.edu/ - August 4th-7th, 2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA - Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society - The field of Semantic Computing (SC) brings together those disciplines concerned with connecting the (often vaguely-formulated) intentions of humans with computational content. This connection can go both ways: retrieving, using and manipulating existing content according to user's goals ("do what the user means"); and creating, rearranging, and managing content that matches the author's intentions ("do what the author means"). - The content addressed in SC includes, but is not limited to, structured and semi-structured data, multimedia data, text, programs, services and, even, network behavior. This connection between content and the user is made via (1) Semantic Analysis, which analyzes content with the goal of converting it to meaning (semantics); (2) Semantic Integration, which integrates content and semantics from multiple sources; (3) Semantic Applications, which utilize content and semantics to solve problems; and (4) Semantic Interfaces, which attempt to interpret users' intentions expressed in natural language or other communicative forms.

SOAWorld 2007: Enterprise Open Source: http://www.soaeosconference.sys-con.com/ - June 25-27 2007 - New York.

SPA-214 - The Impact of Software Engineering Research on Software Engineering Practice - BCS SPA - http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/ImpactStudy - Speaker: Professor Alex Wolf, Imperial College, London - Date: Wednesday 6th February 2007 - Time: 18:30 - Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA - Enormous change has occurred in software engineering practice over the past decades. The worldwide software industry now generates hundreds of billions of US dollars in revenue annually and continues to expand in scope and revenue volume. Indeed, the software industry is increasingly acknowledged as a key driver of both social and economic growth. - In view of this, it seems important to consider to what extent industrial and academic software engineering research has had an impact (positive or negative) on the practice of software engineering. A group has formed to consider this question, taking a scholarly and methodical look into the origins of several critical elements of the practice, including high-level programming languages, configuration management tools, distributed middleware, testing and architecture.

TCT 2007 - The rapid product development and rapid manufacturing event - http://www.time-compression.com/x/exhibition.html - 26th/27th September, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK - TCT 2007 is the only UK event focused on providing solutions for accelerating products to market. Whether you are working for a global engineering concern or an SME the Rapid Product Development and Rapid Manufacturing technologies on show at TCT 2007 will help you to reduce time and cost to market, and have a demonstrable impact on the bottom line.

The 7th OOSPLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling - http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM07/ - October 21-22, 2007, Montreal, Canada - Domain-Specific Modeling raises the level of abstraction beyond programming by specifying the solution directly using domain concepts. In many cases, final products can be generated automatically from these high-level specifications. This automation is possible because both the language and generators need fit the requirements of only one company and domain.

The Ergonomics Society - http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/section.php?s=6 - Ergonomics is a multi-disciplinary subject and the variety of conferences and events that may be of interest to ergonomists reflects this. Worldwide events are listed with information and contact details.

The future of computer technology - British Computer Society - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.15671 - The Computer Journal presents: The future of computer technology, and its implications for the computer industry, by Steve Furber. - Date: Tuesday 12th February 2008 - Time: 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start - Venue: Central London - Lecture by Prof. Steve Furber - University of Manchester. The lecture will be followed by a debate. The lecture itself, and the discussion following it, will be edited for the Computer Journal.

The Twenty First International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems http://www.iea-aie.pwr.wroc.pl/ - June 18-20, 2008 Wroclaw (Poland) – Wroclaw University of Technology - Adaptive Networked Systems and Media - ANSyM'2008 ! - http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ANSyM2008/.

TP.CG.08 - The UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association presents The sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08) - http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/ - University of Manchester, UK - 9-11th June 2008 - Hosted by Research Computing Services - in co-operation with Eurographics - (Paper submission deadline March 10th 2008) - PAPER SUBMISSION TOOL IS NOW ONLINE - Proceedings published by EG and placed on the EG Digital Library - TP.CG.08 is the 26th conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association. The aim of the conference is to focus on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and to bring together top practicioners, users and researchers, which will hopefully inspire further collaboration between participants particularly between academia and industry. - VizNET competition - Selected entries will feature in the vizNET website. The Eurographics UK Chapter (EGUK) will host a session at their annual conference, TP.CG '08 which will be held at the University of Manchester, UK June 9th-11th to showcase the winning entries. EGUK will pay for a full conference ticket - entrance, tutorials, socials and accommodation - for the winning submission.

VIVACE 2007 - Forum 3, 17-19 October 2007 - http://www.vivaceproject.com/content/forum3/forum3.php - Forum 3, 17-19 October 2007 - This public Forum will be held on 17th to 19th October 2007 at the Diagora congress centre at Labège on the south-eastern outskirts of Toulouse. It will comprise plenary sessions interspersed with short parallel sessions. There will be a press briefing on the morning of day 1. - This three-day Forum will be constructed around the full set of services and results developed during the project and will show how these are being and can be exploited both within the European Aeronautical and Space Industry and the transport vehicle market in general. The presentations and demonstrations will cover themes of system and component simulation, whole engine development, supply chain manufacturing workflow simulation, etc. and will represent selected "use cases", i.e. real industrial simulations of a part of the aircraft or the engine or of a development process.

VRAP 2007 - 3rd international conference on advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping - http://www.dem.estg.ipleiria.pt/vrap2007/ - Leiria, 24th to 29th September 2007 and The 1st CoSpaces Annual Conference will be held on 26th - 28th September 2007 in conjunction with VR@P 2007 in Leiria, Portugal. - The conference will take place at the School of Technology and Management which is at an important industrial centre and historical city of Portugal, Leiria, distant around 1 hour from Lisbon. This School provides education in the sectors of technology and management for more than 5000 students and is one of the five Schools forming the Institute Polytechnic of Leiria. VRAP is designed to be a major forum for the Scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational aspects of virtual and physical prototyping and related areas.

Winter Simulation Conference WSC '06 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - Monterey, California, USA - December 3-6, 2006.

Winter Simulation Conference '07 WSC'07 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - J.W. Marriott, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., during the period December 9-12, 2007 - WSC'07 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Winter Simulation Conference, featuring a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. The conference includes student presentations, exhibits, training sessions by software vendors, business meetings for professional societies and software user groups, and a general reception.

Winter Simulation Conference '08 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida - The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation. In addition to a technical program of unsurpassed scope and quality, WSC provides the central meeting place for simulation practitioners, researchers, and vendors working in all disciplines and in the industrial, governmental, military, and academic sectors. WSC'08 will feature a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. The conference includes student presentations, exhibits, training sessions by software vendors, business meetings for professional societies and software user groups, and a general reception. The theme for WSC 2008 is "Global Gateway to Discovery". December 7-10, 2008.

WMSCI 2008: The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (Orlando, Florida, USA. June 29th-July 2nd, 2008) http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008.

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Adobe demo of Airbus - Interactive Airbus A380 based on SVG graphics format

Airbus A380 - A380 Airbus - News and demonstrations.

BBC Health - 'Action needed' on NHS computers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6559947.stm - Delays and costs of the multi-billion pound NHS information technology upgrade mean its future is "not looking good", a group of MPs has said. - 16 April 2007.

BBC News - Modelling of the Heart - Oxford University - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5145920.stm - Case studies: The three Rs - Some researchers are working on ways to lower the numbers of animals used in scientific experiments.

BBC News - Nasa and Google form cosmic union - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6192523.stm - Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa. - BBC News Technology - 19th December 2006.

BBC News - Officially Ignorant? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/6475059.stm - Whitehall has been reluctant to adopt the modern number crunching techniques and knowledge-sharing pioneered by the private sector. 21 March 2007.

BBC Radio - Euro Everything - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20060518.shtml - Radio Broadcast - In Business - Peter Day.

BBC Radio 4 - In Business - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml - Research Party - Peter Day looks at US industry's 'secret sauce'. - The American economy may have a "secret sauce": billions of federal dollars spent on research projects doled out to corporate USA. Finland does something similar to boost Finnish innovation. - Are these are examples Britain ought to follow? - Peter Day - 21 June 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - Mananging Uncertainty in Complex Models - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070419.shtml - Radio 4 Broadcast - Thursday 19 April 2007 - In many branches of science, more and more predictions are made by running computer models. But as these models get increasingly complex, a better understanding of the mathematics of uncertainty is becoming essential, especially when important policy decisions hinge on the scientists' predictions.

BBC Technology news - Nasa and Google form cosmic union - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6192523.stm - Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa. - BBC News Technology - 19th December 2006.

British Computer Society - Developing the future - 26 June 2007 - In less than three years time, more than half of UK GDP will be generated by people who create something from nothing, according to the 2007 Developing the Future (DtF) report launched today at the British Library.

British Computer Society - He's not heavy, he's my UML tool - Paul Wells, AgileJ Ltd - Software development tools can be wonderful things in the right hands, but it can be difficult to find the right tool for the right job. Paul Wells of AgileJ Ltd looks at what happens when UML tools meet the agile coding world.

E-science's first five years are a success - http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/4/30.pdf - British Computer Society Thought Leadership - Helen Boddy.

Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference - http://www.informs-cs.org/wsc05papers/297.pdf - SRML Case Study: Simple Self-Describing Process Modeling and Simulation - Steven W. Reichenthal - Boeing.

Scientific Journals International - http://www.scientificjournals.org/ - SJI mission is to give every researcher, writer or artist a fair consideration to be published. The academic, creative and scientific developments depend on the effective, rapid and efficient dissemination of information and ideas from all disciplines and at all levels. This revolutionary project is an attempt to provide a one-stop efficient forum for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines. There is no other journal in the world that aims to have this scope. - Current Issue - http://www.scientificjournals.org/current_issue.htm.

South West RDA commits 2.7 million pounds to Integrated Wing technology programme - http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/news/release.asp?releaseid=1750 - 12 December 2006 - South West England is playing a key role in a 34 million pound research project led by Airbus UK at Filton, which will develop the technology for a new generation of aircraft.

Supply Chain Article - http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/6/10 - In chains - Richard Platts, MBCS - ITNNOW - British Computer Society (BCS) - A supply chain is a set of coordinated and linked supplier-customer relationships by which raw materials and intermediate products are transformed into final products. Although commonly referred to as a chain, in practice the various relationships form a complex multidimensional network of organisations. It is usually the case that no one organisation controls the overall supply chain for any particular product. Typically there are dominant organisations that exert influence on others but in a free market economy competition ensures that can change. - November 07.

UniverseToday - GoogleNASA - Google and NASA Ames announced today that they'll be forming a new partnership to work together on several space-related projects - December 18th, 2006.

UWE on Top Gear - Sunday 18th February 2007 - engineers from our Faculty were involved in was aired at 8pm. It featured a Robin Reliant rocket powered car, sort of modified to resemble a NASA space shuttle! Mike Ackerman and Chris Hart both worked with UK Rocket Association and the Top Gear team to help make the stunt happen - UWE News - http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/article.asp?item=1002&year=2007.

Useful Publications

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Publications and References

A Two-Stage Modeling and Simulation Process for Web-Based Modeling and Simulation 2002 Kim Taewoo Jinho Lee Paul Fishwick ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 12 3.

An appraisal of web-based simulation: whither we wander? 2001 Kuljis Jasna, R J Paul Simulation Practice and Theory 9 37-54.

An Internet-enabled integrated system for co-design and concurrent engineering, 2004, Li W D, J Y H Fuh, Y S Wong, Computers in Industry 55 87-103.

Brokering and 3D collaborative viewing of mechanical part models on the Web 2001 Kim Yeongho, Youngsang Choi, Sang Bong Yoo International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 28-40.

DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making, 2006, Scanlan J, Rao A, Bru C, Hale P, Marsh R, Journal of Aircraft - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4.

Design and Prototyping of Knowledge Management Software for Aerospace Manufacturing, Hale P, Scanlan J, Bru C, 2003, 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF

Design of a Meta Model for integrating enterprise systems, 2004, Wang Chin-bin, Tsung-Yi Chen, Yuh-min Chen, Hui-Chuan Chu Computers in Industry 56 305-322.

Discrete-Event Modeling Ontology (DeMO): - http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jam/jsim/DeMO/ - DeMO is an ontology for discrete-event modeling (DEM) (system dynamics for discrete-event systems (DES)). The models in the ontology focus on how state evolves over time.

Discrete-Event Simulation On The Internet and the Web, 1998, Shen C C, scs International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, San Diego 57-62.

Distributed Web-Based Simulation Experiments For Optimization. Chen, C.-H., Yücesan, E., 2001. Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory, 9, pp 73-90.

End-User Development Techniques for Enterprise Resource Planning Software Systems - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1097/pdf/07081.SpahnMichael.Paper.1097.pdf - Michael Spahn, Stefan Scheidl, Todor Stoitsev - SAP AG, SAP Research CEC Darmstadt, End-User Software Engineering M. H. Burnett, G. Engels, B. A. Myers, G. Rothermel (Eds.) - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/index.php?semnr=07081.

Engineering Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies: A Critical Evaluation - El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R. (2005) Engineering Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies: A Critical Evaluation - IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications, part of the 23rd Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria pp 222-227.

Improving the Aircraft Design Process Using Web-Based Modeling and Simulation. Reed, J. A., Follen, G. J., Afjeh A. A. (2000) ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 10 (1), 58-83.

Information Modeling of Conceptual Design Integrated with Process Planning 2000 Feng Shaw C, Eugene Y Song, The 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress November 5-10 Orlando, Florida.

Interoperability of Protégé using RDF(S) as interchange language. Garcia-Castro R, Gomez-Perez A, 2006. In: 9th Intl. Protégé Conference, July 23-26, 2006 - Stanford, California - http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/submissions/abstracts/3.4_Garcia-Castro_Gomez-Perez_Protege2006.pdf.

Investigating the application of web-based simulation principles within the architecture for a next-generation computer generated forces model - Ernest H. Page, Jeffrey M. Opper - Future Generation Computer Systems Volume 17, Issue 2 (October 2000) pp 159 - 169.

Issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture, 2001, Huang, G. Q., Mak, K. L., International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 125-135

Model-based tools for pervasive usability, 2005, Paterno Fabio, Interacting with Computers 17, 291-315 - http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/cameleon/pdf/last-model-based%20approaches-IwC.pdf.

Model-Driven Program Transformation of a Large Avionics Framework - http://www.cis.uab.edu/gray/Pubs/gpce-2004.pdf - Jeff Gray, Jing Zhang, Yuehua Lin, Suman Roychoudhury, Hui Wu, Rajesh Sudarsan, Aniruddha Gokhale, Sandeep Neema, Feng Shi, and Ted Bapty - Third International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering GPCE.

Modelling and Simulating Product Development Process, 2000, Nour M, Scanlan J, 6th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising.

Modelling and Simulating Product Development Process, 2000, Nour M, Scanlan J, Bru C, Proceedings of the 6th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, Toulouse (France), 28-30 June 2000, pp. 111-118.

On the insufficiency of ontologies: problems in knowledge sharing and alternative solutions - Correa da Silva F.S.; Vasconcelos W.W., Robertson D.S., Brilhante V., de Melo A.C.V., Finger M., Agusti J., - Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 15, Number 3, March 2002, pp. 147-167(21).

Ontological Approach for Organisational Knowledge Re-use in Product Developing Environments - Wai M Cheung, Paul G Maropoulos, James X Gao, Hayder Aziz - 11th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising - ICE 2005 - University BW Munich, Germany.

Ontological Modeling, 2003, Kalinichenko L, Missikoff M, Schiappelli F, Skvortsov N, Proceedings of the 5th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries RCDL2003, St. - Petersburg, Russia, 2003 - http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru/synthesis/publications/ontomodeling/.

Ontologies and Semantics for Seamless Connectivity, 2004 - http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0412/12.uschold-9.pdf - Uschold M, Gruninger M Boeing, Univerity of Maryland - Association for Computer Machinery - Special Interest Group on Management of Data - SIGMOD Record December 2004 Vol 33 Number 4.

Ontologies Come of Age, 2003. . McGuinness D. L., In: Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster, ed. Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential. MIT Press, 2003.

Ontologies for Integrating Engineering Applications - Mihai Ciocoiu, Michael Gruninger, Dana S. Nau, 2000. - Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 1(1) pp 12-22.

Ontologies For Modeling and Simulation, 2004 Fishwick Paul A, Miller John A, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

Ontologies Ontologies Everywhere - but Who Knows What to Think? 2006 - http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/submissions/slides/1.2_Uschold.pdf - Uschold M, Boeing - 9th Intl. Protégé Conference July 23-26, 2006 - Stanford, California - July 24 Morning Session.

Ontology-based Customizable 3D Modeling for Simulation, 2005, Park Minho, Fishwick Paul A. http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0010095/park_m.pdf - PhD Dissertation.

Ontology Query Languages for the Semantic Web: A Performance Evaluation. Zhang, Z. 2005. - Thesis - (Under the Direction of John.A.Miller).

Open standard, open source and peer-to-peer tools and methods for collaborative product development. - Aziz, H., Gao, J., Maropoulos, P., Cheung, W. M., 2005. Computers in Industry, 56, pp 260-271.

Potential Modeling and Simulation Applications of the Web Ontology Language - OWL, 2004 Lacy Lee, William Gerber, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

Preliminary Findings from the DECIDE project, 2002, Hale P, Scanlan J, Bru, C, Dunkley M, ISPE/CE2002 Concurrent Engineering Conference Cranfield University p 839 - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF.

Probabilistic Pseudo-generative Cost Modelling Through Virtual Template Propagation 2001 Marsh Rob Terry Hill, J Scanlan, Martin Dunkley, Paul Cleevely CEAS Conference on Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design and Optimization June 2001 Maternushaus Koln, Cologne, Germany.

Process architectures and process models: opportunities for reuse. Green, S., Beeson, I., Kamm, R., 2007. In: 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support BPMDS07 and CAiSE'07 11-15 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway.

Provision of a Web Based Decision Support system for Wing Box Tooling, 2001, Hale P, Scanlan J, Hill T, Nour M, Bru C, Jocelyn A, Round M, Dunkley M, 7th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF.

Research and commercial opportunities in Web-Based Simulation 2001 Miller John A Paul A Fishwick et al. Simulation Practice and Theory 9 55-72

Risk Analysis Without Monte Carlo Simulation, 2000, Sweeting Jack, The Cost Engineer May 2000 17-20

Simulation and the Semantic Web - Miller, J A., Baramidze, G., - 2005. - Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference.

SRML case study: simple self-describing process modeling and simulation, Reichenthal, S.W. 2004, Simulation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter - Volume: 2, pp 1461- 1466 - ISBN: 0-7803-8786-4.

Structural Design, Analysis, Optimization, and Cost Modeling Using the Adaptive Modeling Language - http://www.technosoft.com/docs/AIAA_2002_1296_SDM_02.pdf - John Marino, Adel Chemaly.

The Modeling Methodological Impacts of Web-Based Simulation 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin J. Healy, Thread Technologies Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University Proceedings of the 1998 SCS International Conference on Web-Based Simulation San Diego 123-128.

The OWL-S Editor - A Domain-Specific Extension to Protégé Elenius, D., 2005. - 8th Intl. Protégé Conference - July 18-21, 2005 - Madrid, Spain.

The Rise of Web-Based Simulation: Implications for the High Level Architecture 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference Washington DC p 1663-1668

UML for Interactive Systems: What is Missing, Palanque, P., Bastide R., 2003. http://www.se-hci.org/bridging/interact/p96-99.pdf - INTERACT 2003 Closing the Gaps: Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction Zürich, Switzerland.

Using Alloy in process modelling, Wallace C., 2003, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 45 (15), 1031-1043 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/ChrisWallace.pdf.

Visualisation of Cost Information 2002 Bru C, Scanlan J Hale P, Dunkley M, 9th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Cranfield University.

Visualization and Modelling for Intelligent Systems. Crapo, A. W., Waisel, L. B., Wallace, W. A., Willemain, T. R., 2002. In: C. T. Leondes, ed. Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Volume I Implementation Techniques, 2002 pp 53-85.

Visualization and Protégé - http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/abstracts/Storey.pdf - Margaret-Anne Storey, Robert Lintern, Neil Ernst, David Perrin - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada - 7th International Protégé Conference - Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th, July 2004 - Bethesda, Maryland.

Visualization and the process of modeling: a cognitive-theoretic view - Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data - Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - Andrew W. Crapo, Laurie B. Waisel, William A. Wallace, Thomas R. Willemain.

Visualization of Cost Information, 2004 Bru C, Scanlan J, Hale P, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 53-59.

Visualization of Large Nested Graphs in 3D:Navigation and Interaction - http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/PDFs/visualnav.pdf - Greg Parker, Glenn Franck and Colin Ware, 1998, Faculty of Computer Science - University of New Brunswick - Journal of Visual Languages and Compuing, 9, 299-317.

Web-Based Simulation: Revolution or Evolution? 1999 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Ernest H. Page, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin Healy, ThreadTec, Inc. Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

What makes expert systems survive over 10 years-empirical evaluation of several engineering applications 2003 Nurminen Jukka K, Olli Karaonen and Kimmo Hatonen, Expert Systems with Applications 24 2 199-211.

Funding Calls

Systems/Software Engineering Funding Calls - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/proposallinks.htm#SystemsSoftwareEngineering.

DTI (Department of Trade & Industry) - Spring 2007 Competition - http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/technologystrategy/competitions-for-funding/page37788.html#Technology_areas - Key Dates - Background to the Spring 2007 Competition - Technology Priority Areas (PDFs) - Guidance for Applicants.

BAE Systems/EPSRC Strategic Partnership: Service and Support Engineering Solutions - http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/BAESystems.htm - EPSRC and BAE Systems have formed a strategic partnership to jointly fund high quality basic, strategic and applied research. Following the successful announcement of a programme of research in Aeronautical Engineering, EPSRC and BAE Systems are launching a collaborative, two-year integrated research programme in Service and Support Engineering.

· How can the life-cycle costs associated with the sustainment/ support of complex delivery systems be minimised?

· How can the business proposition and the relationship across several product and service providers be structured?

· How can the entire operation be transformed to embed a service culture - 'servitisation'?

· How can modelling visualisation technology be applied to meet the service and support challenge?

· How can capability be accurately modelled?

Feasibility Studies in Underpinning Physical Sciences and Engineering for Energy Research - http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/EnergyFeasibilityStudies.htm - A total of £2 million has been earmarked by the EPSRC Energy Programme for research proposals in the form of speculative feasibility studies to carry out underpinning science and engineering to tackle energy research challenges.

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