Plenary abstracts

These tutorials and keynote speeches discuss the following: Simulating the concept abstraction mechanism in brain for image retrieval; Getting started With AnyLogic and multimethod simulation modeling; What is Intelli-Plan?; Methods for testing and validation of simulation models for engineering applications; Modelling of metabolic processes: bridging the gap between data and process understanding; The state of the art of neurodynamic optimization - past, present and future; and Looking at problems the other way round: engineering applications of inverse simulation based on continuous system simulation methods.