WSC 2018 Early Registration Deadline Approaching! Oct 10th
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2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2018)
December 9-12, The Swedish Exhibition & Congress
Center,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Early registration deadline Oct 10th 2018!
Conference Theme: Simulation for a Noble Cause!
WSC 2018 focus is on highlighting the use of simulation for noble causes!
Simulation has been found useful for a range of scientific, engineering and business applications as evident by the papers presented at Winter Simulation Conferences over the past 50
years. Simulation has been employed to help noble causes too over the recent past but such efforts have received limited attention. The 2018 conference seeks to highlight applications of simulation for noble causes in addition to continuing to report leading
developments and applications in other fields. We especially invite papers describing uses of simulation in efforts analyzing and addressing issues facing humanity including, but not limited to, reducing poverty and world hunger, social causes, social problems,
improving natural environment, and disaster response.
WSC2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Jean Baderschneider
CEO and Founding Board Member
Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
Title: The potential of simulation for disrupting modern slavery systems
According to recent global estimates, over 25 million people are in conditions of modern slavery around the world. Modern slavery, an umbrella term which includes forced labor and forced
sexual exploitation, is an economic crime of opportunity that occurs in every country in the world, generating an estimated $150 Billion USD in illegal profits to traffickers. It is a massive system of exploitation driven by both supply of vulnerable populations
and demand for cheap products and services.
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) is a bold public-private partnership with a mission to make modern slavery economically unprofitable by catalyzing and coordinating a global,
coherent strategy. Dr. Baderschneider will discuss how developing this coherent strategy will require innovative approaches to collecting data and to evaluating and disrupting systems driving modern slavery. She will highlight the potential of simulation to
be a game-changer in this effort.
TITANS OF SIMULATION
Russell Cheng
Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton
Peter Frazier
Associate Professor, Cornell University, and,
Staff Data Scientist and Data Science Manager at Uber
PROGRAM
WSC 2018 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice.
Please visit www.wintersim.org for
program and other details.
WSC 2018 is sponsored by ACM/SIGSIM, ASA (Technical Co-Sponsor), ASIM (Technical Co-Sponsor), IEEE/SMC (Technical Co-Sponsor), IIE, INFORMS-SIM, NIST (Technical Co-Sponsor) and SCS.
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Simon J E Taylor
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
Professor of Computing, Director of Research (Computer Science)
Director of the Modelling & Simulation Group
Brunel University London
College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Department of Computer Science, Modelling & Simulation Group
Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8252-0189