Integration of Traffic Simulation and Propulsion Modeling to Estimate Energy Consumption for Battery Electric Vehicles.- Speeding Up the Evaluation of a Mathematical Model for VANETs using OpenMP.- The Stability Box for Minimizing Total Weighted Flow Time under Uncertain Data.- Numerical Modelling of Nonlinear Diffusion Phenomena on a Sphere.- Simulation, Parameter Estimation and Optimization of an Industrial-scale Evaporation System.- High Detailed Lava Flows Hazard Maps by a Cellular Automata Approach.- A Consistent Preliminary Design Process for Mechatronic Systems.- A Process based on the Model-driven Architecture to Enable the Definition of Platform-independent Simulation MODELS.- Dynamic Response of a Wind Farm Consisting of Doubly-fed Induction Generators to Network Disturbance.- Educational Simulators for Industrial Process Control.- Simulation-based Development of Safety Related Interlocks.- Modelling Molecular Processes by Individual-based Simulations Applied to Actin Polymerisation.- Marine Ecosystem Model Calibration through Enhanced Surrogate-based Optimization.- Hydrodynamic Shape Optimization of Axisymmetric Bodies using Multi-fidelity Modeling.- Analysis of Bulky Crash Simulation Results: Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects.- Integration of Optimization to the Design of Pulp & Paper Production Processes.- Variation-aware Circuit Macromodeling and Design based on Surrogate Models.- Analysis and Optimization of Bevel Gear Cutting Processes by Means of Manufacturing Simulation.

The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2011) which was sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

SIMULTECH 2011 was technically co-sponsored by the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS), GDR I3, Lionphant Simulation and Simulation Team and held in cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (ACM SIGSIM) and the AIS Special Interest Group of Modeling and Simulation (AIS SIGMAS).