Message from Chairs

Summary form only given. We are delighted to welcome our colleagues from the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the world to this 14th UKSim International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. It follows in the footsteps of last year?????????s successful event, which represented the 13th UKSim International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, also held at Emmanuel College. The conference program committee has organized an exciting and balanced program comprising presentations from distinguished experts in the field and important and wide-ranging contributions on state-of-the-art research that provide new insights into the latest innovations in the field of modelling and simulation. Being the UKSim?????????s fourth large international conference, we are hopeful that its outstanding technical content contributed by leading researchers in the field from United Kingdom, Europe and worldwide will ensure its continued success. UKSim 2012 is technically sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (UK & RI) and for the first time IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa and Middle East), UK Simulation Society, European Federation of Simulation Societies (EUROSIM), European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS), Asia Modelling and Simulation Society, Kingston University, Imperial College, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Nottingham Trent University, University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), University of Science Malaysia (USM) and University of Malaysia in Sabah, University of Technology Mara, University of Malaysia in Perlis, and University of Malaysia in Pahang. UKSim 2012 proved to be very popular and received submissions far in excess of expectation from nearly 30 countries. The conference program committee had a very challenging task of choosing high quality submissions. Each paper was peer reviewed by several independent referees of the program committee - nd, based on the recommendation of the reviewers, 110 papers were finally accepted. The papers offer stimulating insights into emerging modelling and simulation techniques and their applications in a wider variety of fields within science and technologies in the broadest sense of their meaning.