Chairs' welcome message

We are delighted to welcome our colleagues from the UK, Europe and the rest of the world to this 15th UKSim International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK. It follows in the footsteps of last year's successful event, which represented the 14th 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 15th large international conference, we are hopeful that its outstanding technical content contributed by leading researchers in the field from UK, Europe and worldwide will ensure its continued success. UKSim 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (UK & RI) and 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 Section, 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.