Marking the 30th anniversary of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS), this inspirational text/reference reviews significant advances in the field of modelling and simulation, as well as key applications of simulation in other disciplines. The broad-ranging volume presents contributions from a varied selection of distinguished experts chosen from high-impact keynote speakers and best paper winners from the conference, including a Nobel Prize recipient, and the first president of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation (also abbreviated to ECMS).

The ECMS and its Position in European Simulation History: A Personal Impression.- Brain Maps for Space.- Coordinated Learning of Entorhinal Grid Cells and Hippocampal Place Cells: Space, Time, Attention, and Oscillations.- Adaptive Model Theory: Modelling the Modeller.- Multi-Formalism Modelling of Human Organization.- A New Research Architecture for the Simulation Era.- A Ship Motion Short Term Time Domain Simulator and its Application to Costa Concordia Emergency Manoeuvres Just Before the January 2012 Accident.- Fuzzy Modelling and Fuzzy Collaborative Modelling: A Perspective of Granular Computing.- Control Law and Pseudo-Neural Networks Synthesized by Evolutionary Symbolic Regression Technique.- On Practical Automated Engineering Design.- Flow-Level Packet Loss Analysis of a Markovian Bottleneck Buffer.- Fitting Methods Based on Distance Measures of Marked Markov Arrival Processes.- Markovian Agent Models: A Dynamic Population of Interdependent Markovian Agents.