Preface

EUROSIM is the Federation of European Simulation Societies which was set up in 1989. Its purpose is to promote, especially through local simulation societies, the idea of modelling and simulation in different fields, in industry, research and development. At present EUROSIM has eleven full members and three observer members.

The EUROSIM Congress is organised every three years by a member society of EUROSIM. After Capri, Vienna, Helsinki, Delft and Paris the 6th EUROSIM Congress is being organised by the Slovenian Society for Simulation and Modelling, SLOSIM, and takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

The efforts of the organisers have resulted in an unexpectedly large interest in the event, as much more than five hundred papers from almost 50 countries were submitted. Altogether 420 contributions from 42 countries were included in the final programme. This proves that modelling and simulation is, in spite of being a very traditional discipline, still attractive, modern, and with a wide range of applications and research possibilities, and is closely connected with many of the most sophisticated and modern disciplines.

The scope of the congress includes all aspects of continuous, discrete (event) and hybrid modelling, simulation, identification and optimisation approaches. The programme scheme consists of tutorials, plenary lectures, regular sessions, special sessions, poster sessions and a student competition.

Tutorials cover the more general areas of broader interest. Below you can find the titles and the presenters of the tutorials.

THE TITLES OF THE TUTORIALS	PRESENTERS
INVERSE SIMULATION METHODS AND APPLICATIONS	Murray-Smith D.
SUPER-OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND MODEL NESTING	Kindler E.
INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELING AND SIMULATION WITH MODELICA USING OPENMODELICA ENVIRONMENT	Fritzson P., Lundvall H., Brugård J.

The plenary lectures will be presented by five outstanding speakers, all of them well known in the field of modelling and simulation (see titles and presenters below). The lectures will cover a wide range of modelling and simulation topics.

THE TITLES OF THE PLENARY PAPERS	PRESENTERS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT MODELING AND SIMULATION IN MODELICA	Cellier F.
INTEGRATED MULTISCALE SIMULATION OF CONTINUOUS CASTING OF STEEL	Šarler B.
EXPERIENCES AND TRENDS IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF INTEGRATED INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES	Juslin K.
AN ODE FOR THE RENAISSANCE	Breitenecker F.
THE CHALLENGE OF MODELING HIGH SPEED FLOWS	Longo J.M.A

The regular programme consists of regular papers and posters. The only distinction is in the form of presentation: oral or poster. There are 34 regular sessions with oral presentation with 203 contributions and 1 poster session with 30 contributions, altogether 233 papers, which cover the congress’ scope and topics. All the papers were revised by at least three members from the International Programme Committee.

Twenty-three special sessions (some are organised as tracks) with 168 papers are organised by experts from the area of modelling and simulation and cover rather specific areas relating to modelling and simulation. Partly these are invited papers, and partly they were submitted after the session organisers’ call. The review procedure was organised by the session organisers. You can see the names of the sessions and the organisers in the table below. At this point we would like to express our gratitude to the session organisers.

THE TITLES OF SPECIAL  SESSIONS	ORGANISERS
EDUCATION IN SIMULATION / SIMULATION IN EDUCATION	Wiechert W.
SIMULATION IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS	Štemberger M., Orsoni A.
MODELLING OF CRYOGENIC SYSTEMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS	Rachid A., Chadli M., Coppier H.
MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MECHATRONICS	Schmucker U.
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND DISCRETE SIMULATION	Huyet A.L, Pierreval H.
INCREASED PREDICTABILITY OF CRASH MODELS	Eichberger A.
DIGITAL FACTORY/SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES	Jósvai J., März L.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF SIMULATION IN INDUSTRY	Juslin K.
FUZZY SYSTEMS	Škrjanc I.
SIMULATIONS, MODELLING AND OPTIMIZATION OF VLSI CIRCUITS	Strle D.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION	Dellino G., Lino P., Meloni C., Rizzo A.
ALGEBRAIC METHODS AND ALGORITHMS IN MODELLING DISCRETE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS	Li A.
SIMULATION IN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS	Mihalič R.
MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY	Drinovec J., Mrhar A., Atanasijević-Kunc M.
MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS	Lebon F., Maceri F.
MODELS NETWORKS FOR PROCESS SYSTEMS SIMULATION	Savković-Stevanović J.
CONTROL AND DECISION FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS	Popescu D., Tanguy G.D.
SIMULATION OF MULTIFIELD AND MULTISCALE PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURAL AND MATERIAL ENGINEERING	Callari C., Maceri F.
AGENT-BASED AND DYNAMIC APPROACHES TO MODELLING IN ECONOMICS	Wöckl J., Almeder C.
DOMAIN MODELLING THROUGH AUTONOMOUS DISCOVERY	Bratko I.
ALTERNATIVE MODELLING AND COMPARISONS AND BENCHMARKING IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION	Breitenecker F., Wiechert W.
MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN THE VEHICLE THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM	Puntigam W.
MODELLING OF STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC SYSTEMS – MODEL REDUCTION METHODS	Schwarz P., Breitenecker F.

The student competition contains papers describing the work of undergraduate or bachelor/master students. This means that it is not intended for PhD students unless they are presenting their earlier work. Ten students will compete in this session.

The papers in these proceedings follow the same order as in the programme. We hope that both publications – the Programme and the Proceedings – will help the attendees and session chairs during the sessions.

We hope that your participation at the 6th EUROSIM Congress will be pleasant and productive, scientifically and socially. We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage you and your colleagues to attend the next EUROSIM Congress, which will take place in September 2010 in Prague.

Ljubljana, September 2007

Borut Zupančič Chair of the Congress, President of EUROSIM		Rihard Karba Chair of the IPC, President of SLOSIM