Second SIMS EUROSIM Conference on Modelling and Simulation, SIMS EUROSIM 2024, and 65th International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS 2024

Oulu, Finland
The Second SIMS EUROSIM Conference on Modelling and Simulation, SIMS EUROSIM 2024 was organized in Oulu, Finland, September 10-12, 2024. The 65th International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS 2024, is embedded with SIMS EUROSIM 2024.
Organized by:
University of Oulu
Finnish Simulation Forum (FinSim)
and
Finnish Society of Automation
in cooperation with:
Scandinavian Simulation Society (SIMS)
co-sponsored by:

Information

The Second SIMS EUROSIM conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS EUROSIM 2024) and 65th SIMS conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 2024) were organized in Oulu, Finland. The background of this conference series is in the 65-years history of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS. The first SIMS EUROSIM Conference was organized as a virtual conference in 2021. The SIMS conferences are annual and every third of them is a joint SIMS EUROSIM conference.
The Scandinavian Simulation Society consists of members from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. The goal of SIMS is to further develop the science and practice of modelling and simulation in all application areas and to be a forum for information interchange between professionals and non-professionals in the Nordic countries. SIMS is a member society of The Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM) was set up in 1989. The purpose of EUROSIM is to provide a European forum for regional and national simulation societies to promote the advancement of modelling and simulation in industry, research and development. EUROSIM consists of 17 European Simulation Societies. The Scandinavian Simulation Society (SIMS) had the Annual Meetings during the conference. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) co-sponsored the conference via technical committees:
• TC 3.2. Computational Intelligence in Control
• TC 6.1. Chemical Process Control
• TC 6.2. Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing
• TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems
• TC 6.4. Fault Detection,Supervision&Safety of Techn.Processes-SAFEPROCESS
The conference program consisted of keynote presentations, regular presentations and a panel discussion. The call for papers resulted in 98 submissions prepared by 337 authors from 25 countries. Submissions were reviewed by six chairs, 26 IPC members and 21 international reviewers. Full articles were selected on the grounds of academic merit and relevance to the conference theme. Each submission had 2-5 reviews and the acceptance rate was 67% for the full articles. The proceedings include 66 articles prepared by 200 authors from 15 countries. The keynotes are included as abstracts. The IFAC conference templates were used for the regular papers.
The conference covered broad aspects of simulation, modelling and optimization in engineering applications. The most active area, energy systems, includes many articles on renewable energy, energy storage and power production. High number of contributions are for the circular economy, where the focus is the CO2 capture and use, in the steel industry, where articles are in thermodynamics and computational methods, and in the automation where advanced process control, parameter estimation, process intensification and optimization are used in various application areas, including also mobile robots, warehouse optimization and oil recovery. Other session topics include water treatment and nature-based solutions, biosystems, fluid flow and heat transfer, transportation, machine learning, and modelling in process analysis and optimization.
Panel discussion was organized on future challenges and possibilities for simulation. The discussion focused on four areas: artificial intelligence, importance of the expert or domain knowledge, requirements of data and use of written or spoken expert data. Discussions emphasized using different forms of expertise together with the data-driven approaches. The audience had time for two questions. The limitations on relying only on expert knowledge was the question. This risk can be avoided by following mixtures of ideas also out of box. This answered the question of why to participate to the next SIMS? SIMS continues to focus on different industrial and environmental applications, modelling and simulation tools and provides strong support for PhD students continue for stimulating process development for model-based automation.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the keynote speakers, authors, session chairs, members of the program committee and additional reviewers who made this conference such an outstanding success. Finally, we hope that you will find the proceedings to be a valuable resource in your professional, research, and educational activities whether you are a student, academic researcher, or a practising professional.

Author instructions

The Conference Contributions have three alternatives:
  • Full Scientific and Industrial Contributions are published as full papers whose lengths from six to eight pages for the scientific papers and from four to eight pages for the industrial papers.
  • Discussion and Student Contributions are published as short papers whose lengths should be from two to four pages.
  • Industrial Contributions can be published as Extended Abstracts whose lengths should be from one to four pages..
  • Posters are accepted on the basis of the short abstracts.

The first step for all these is to submit a 250-word Abstract in the information page at the EasyChair. Note: The deadline depends on the type of Contribution and the Abstracts should be updated in the final submission for the Conference Program.
All full and short papers should use the IFAC conference templates:
ifacconf_latex-1.4.zip
ifacconf_latex-1.4.zipmedia-files/ifacconf_latex-1.4.zip
ifacconf_office_2-0.zip
ifacconf_office_2-0.zipmedia-files/ifacconf_office_2-0.zip
ifac_sample_office.pdf
ifac_sample_office.pdfmedia-files/ifac_sample_office.pdf

These packages with more information are available at .
The peer-reviewed conference articles will be published Open Access in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings Series which has JUFO Level 1 in Publication Forum rating: in Finland.
Note: EasyChair Preprint is not used in publishing.
IFAC has decided to co-sponsor the conference (without publication in IFAC-PoL). The IFAC conference templates are used for all papers. The instructions have been updated. The deadline of the full draft papers is open until June 10, 2024.
Selected papers will get possibility to publish revised articles in Special Issues (to be informed soon) and IFAC Journals.
Extended Abstract submissions should be structured into the following sections:
  • Title which clearly indicates the research topics.
  • Authors, names institute, country and email address . The first/presenting author is responsible for ensuring that all authors have agreed to be co-authors.
  • Key words (3-5). Background, Aims, Materials and methods, (Results, Conclusions).
  • Submissions with minimum one page are required for acceptance.
  • The length of the final extended abstract is from one to four pages. Figures and tables are allowed and become essential in longer submissions.
Poster presentations are uploaded as new submissions as topic "Poster'', including authors, title, keywords and a short abstracts which is used in the program. Then upload the poster file.
We ask authors to bring posters with them to SIMS EUROSIM 2024.
Best poster(s) will be chosen during the poster session and awarded in the closing session. Paper publication possibilities are offered for selected posters.
Presentations are uploaded via the submission page. The EasyChair Smart Slide Web site is not used in the program.

Venue

Oulu City

The SIMS EUROSIM 2024 will be organized in , which is home to over 200 000 people, making it the largest urban centre in northern Scandinavia and one of the fastest growing regions in Finland. The youthful city is located on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia 220 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle and Lapland. A combination of a charming small city, an urban Centre and a dynamic International Science Centre offers in several different levels. The University of Oulu is one of the biggest and the most multidisciplinary universities in Finland.
The conference will be held in the heart of the Oulu City at Original Sokos Hotel Arina’s conference facilities, the 4th floor of the Valkea shopping centre.

Getting to Oulu

There are good flight connections to Oulu from all over the world via Helsinki. Numerous only one hour flights per day between Oulu and Helsinki are operated by . Lufthansa continues direct flights . Oulu has frequent Pendolino and InterCity train connections with Helsinki and Tampere operated by

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Information

The Second SIMS EUROSIM conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS EUROSIM 2024) and 65th SIMS conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 2024) were organized in Oulu, Finland. The background of this conference series is in the 65-years history of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS. The first SIMS EUROSIM Conference was organized as a virtual conference in 2021. The SIMS conferences are annual and every third of them is a joint SIMS EUROSIM conference.
The Scandinavian Simulation Society consists of members from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. The goal of SIMS is to further develop the science and practice of modelling and simulation in all application areas and to be a forum for information interchange between professionals and non-professionals in the Nordic countries. SIMS is a member society of The Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM) was set up in 1989. The purpose of EUROSIM is to provide a European forum for regional and national simulation societies to promote the advancement of modelling and simulation in industry, research and development. EUROSIM consists of 17 European Simulation Societies. The Scandinavian Simulation Society (SIMS) had the Annual Meetings during the conference. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) co-sponsored the conference via technical committees:
• TC 3.2. Computational Intelligence in Control
• TC 6.1. Chemical Process Control
• TC 6.2. Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing
• TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems
• TC 6.4. Fault Detection,Supervision&Safety of Techn.Processes-SAFEPROCESS
The conference program consisted of keynote presentations, regular presentations and a panel discussion. The call for papers resulted in 98 submissions prepared by 337 authors from 25 countries. Submissions were reviewed by six chairs, 26 IPC members and 21 international reviewers. Full articles were selected on the grounds of academic merit and relevance to the conference theme. Each submission had 2-5 reviews and the acceptance rate was 67% for the full articles. The proceedings include 66 articles prepared by 200 authors from 15 countries. The keynotes are included as abstracts. The IFAC conference templates were used for the regular papers.
The conference covered broad aspects of simulation, modelling and optimization in engineering applications. The most active area, energy systems, includes many articles on renewable energy, energy storage and power production. High number of contributions are for the circular economy, where the focus is the CO2 capture and use, in the steel industry, where articles are in thermodynamics and computational methods, and in the automation where advanced process control, parameter estimation, process intensification and optimization are used in various application areas, including also mobile robots, warehouse optimization and oil recovery. Other session topics include water treatment and nature-based solutions, biosystems, fluid flow and heat transfer, transportation, machine learning, and modelling in process analysis and optimization.
Panel discussion was organized on future challenges and possibilities for simulation. The discussion focused on four areas: artificial intelligence, importance of the expert or domain knowledge, requirements of data and use of written or spoken expert data. Discussions emphasized using different forms of expertise together with the data-driven approaches. The audience had time for two questions. The limitations on relying only on expert knowledge was the question. This risk can be avoided by following mixtures of ideas also out of box. This answered the question of why to participate to the next SIMS? SIMS continues to focus on different industrial and environmental applications, modelling and simulation tools and provides strong support for PhD students continue for stimulating process development for model-based automation.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the keynote speakers, authors, session chairs, members of the program committee and additional reviewers who made this conference such an outstanding success. Finally, we hope that you will find the proceedings to be a valuable resource in your professional, research, and educational activities whether you are a student, academic researcher, or a practising professional.

Program

The program of the conference has a multi-conference structure with several special topics related to methodologies and application areas. The programme includes invited talks, parallel, special, poster and pitch sessions, tutorials, exhibition and versatile technical tours.

Keynote speeches

SIMS EUROSIM 2024 is proud to present keynote speakers:
George Nikolakopoulos, LTU and Kimmo Alatulkkila, Oulun Energia

Tuesday, September 10

18.30 Get together at Oulu City Hall
(The City Hall will be reopened for the public after renovation on October 7–13, 2024, . We will be among first visitors with our pre visit).

Preliminary program, September 11 - 12

All rights to make changes reserved.

Friday , September 13, Industry Visit

  • Volter: Cleantech engineering & Green power
  • Chempolis: A true biorefining expert

Best Papers

will be awarded in the closing session.

Accommodation

The special prices are available until August 15th, 2024.
For more hotel information

Submissions

Note 1: EasyChair was down September 2 for 6 hours. Authors can continue completing their submissions until September 5,
Note 2: Submission forms updated for presentations, posters, ..., deadlines September 9. Requirements are clarified. Follow instructions. Everything is done at the Submission page.
Thematic Session proposals (CLOSED)
  • March 3 - Proposals with session abstracts
  • March 10 - Notification of acceptance 
  • March 17 - Submission of paper abstracts

Full Paper Contributions: 6-8 pages scientific papers and 4-8- pages industrial technical papers
  • (March 12) April 22  - Submission of short abstracts Closed
  • April 8 - April 27 - Abstract notification of acceptance  Done
  • (May 22) June 10 - Submission of full draft paper for review Done
  • (June 28) August 5 - Full paper notification of acceptance and comments from the scientific committee Done 
  • (August 18) September 2 - Camera-ready manuscript Extended

Discussion and Student Contributions
  • (May 19) July 15 - Submission of short abstract Done
  • (May 27) July 25- Abstract notification of acceptance Done
  • (June 16) August 5 - Submission of draft short paper for review Done
  • (June 30) August 9 - Short paper notification of acceptance  Done

Submissions continue for posters:
  • (August 12) August 19 - Submission of short abstract for a poster
  • (August 19) August 26 - Notification of acceptance of posters Extended
  • (August 25) September 2 - Camera-ready short paper Extended
  • (August 26) September 2 - Poster Extended

Industrial Extended Abstract Contributions
  • August 19 - Submission of draft extended abstracts Extended
  • August 26 - Notification of acceptance
  • (August 25) September 2 - Final Extended Abstracts Extended

Author registration
  • August 12 - Early registration Extended

All deadlines: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

Registration

Regular Fees
  • Early 610 € (until August 12)
  • Normal 770 € (until August 22)
  • Late 850 €
  • Student 187 €
  • Dinner
  • The full registrations allow one full contribution (max 8 pages). Additional contributions require additional fees. Extra papers: 2nd 100 €, 3rd 200 €, more 300 €. Each extra page 50 €.
  • The student registration fee allows one short paper (max 4 pages) + max 2 extra pages, each 50 €.
  • All registration fees include admission to all the conference sessions and documents, receptions, daily lunches and break time refreshments.
Guidelines
  • The SIMS or EUROSIM members get discount of 10%, The membership needs to be proven by a certificate.
  • New members, who join for one year by paying a special fee, will get this discount.
  • All IFAC Affiliates get discount of 10 €
  • The student fees are only for Master and Bachelor Students. PhD students do not belong in this group.
  • All prices are including VAT, and do not include the price of the hotel.
  • The proceedings and other publications of the conference are covered by the registration fees.
  • The costs of the Special Issues depend on the publishers and are not covered.

Contact

Questions about the submissions should be emailed to
Jari Ruuska, SIMS EUROSIM 2024 Chair
Esko Juuso, IPC Chair
SIMS EUROSIM 2024 Secretariat
Finnish Society of Automation / Finnish Automation Support Ltd
IFAC NMO Finland
Tel. +358 50 400 6624
E-mail:
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