Special sessions are very small and specialized events to be held during the conference as a set of oral and poster presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme or consisting of the works of some particular international project. The goal of special sessions (minimum 4 papers; maximum 9) is to provide a focused discussion on innovative topics. All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on digital support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings are submitted for indexation by Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP and EI.
SPECIAL SESSIONS LIST
SDDOM 2012, Special Session on Computationally Efficient Simulation-Driven Engineering Design Optimization and Modeling
Chair(s): Slawomir Koziel and Leifur Leifsson
MSCCEC 2012, Special Session on Applications of Modeling and Simulation to Climatic Change and Environmental Sciences
Chair(s): Francisco Mugica and Carlos Gay
HA 2012, Special Session on Health Applications
Chair(s): Angela Testi and Elena Tànfani
Special Session on Computationally Efficient Simulation-Driven Engineering Design Optimization and Modeling -
SDDOM
2012
Scope
The use of computer simulations is ubiquitous in contemporary engineering design. High-fidelity numerical models are very accurate but, at the same time, computationally expensive and inherently noisy. Depending on the structure complexity and required accuracy level, evaluation time for a single design can take hours, days or even weeks. Therefore, direct use of high-fidelity simulations in the optimization loop may be prohibitive. On the other hand, in many cases, simulation-driven design is the only option due to complexity of the structure under consideration and the lack of analytical models and/or systematic design procedures. In such instances, computationally efficient design can be performed using surrogate-based optimization (SBO), where the high-fidelity model is replaced by its computationally cheap but still reasonably accurate representation, a surrogate. The surrogate model can be created using various approximation schemes. The surrogate can also be knowledge-based, i.e., constructed from the low-fidelity model that enjoys the same physics as the high-fidelity one. One of the important goals of SBO procedures is to reduce the number of high-fidelity model evaluations, and, consequently, to lower the overall optimization cost. The special session will focus on reviewing state-of-the-art and promoting new directions of surrogate-based and knowledge-based design optimization and modeling methodologies exploiting computer simulations as well as their applications in various fields of science and engineering.
This is the second edition of the SDDOM. The first edition, SDDOM 2011, took place during SIMULTECH 2011 and attracted a large number of high-quality speakers.
Special Session on Applications of Modeling and Simulation to Climatic Change and Environmental Sciences -
MSCCEC
2012
Scope
The main objective of the session is to provide a forum to disseminate and discuss recent and significant research efforts in climate change and atmospheric sciences applications in modeling and simulation based on Computational Intelligence which have significant impact to society.
New, unusual and hybrid approaches used to deal with such applications are particularly encouraged. The session is therefore open to high quality submissions from researchers who should present original research and applications including innovative results.
Special Session on Health Applications -
HA
2012
Scope
The main difficulty of making decisions in the health care area is linked to the complexity and intrinsic uncertainty of the system itself and to its dynamic nature. Moreover, decisions in the health care field are subject to many challenges and constraints: fast change and uncertain outcomes, aging population, increasing citizen expectations, equity considerations and limited resources.
In this context simulation modelling techniques can supply the different stakeholders involved in the health care delivery process with appropriate decisions making tools.
The special session is aimed at collecting the application of simulation models to different concrete situations and problems arising in the broad field of health care delivery and evaluation.
A key feature of the session should be combining a clear explanation of methodological and theoretical concepts together with some reminds to practical applications. Each contribution should, therefore, contain both methodological and theoretical concepts as well as data collection and practical application and also the description of the impact on health care policy.