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35th International Symposium on Military Operational Research (35 ISMOR) 

ISMOR is an annual international symposium sponsored by the UK Ministry of Defence and strongly supported by the Defence Special Interest Group of the UK OR Society.  ISMOR offers a unique opportunity to spend four days exploring the application of analysis to practical issues in defence and security with a wide range of colleagues from across the world. 

• · Network with defence professionals from across the globe
• · Discover the latest defence analysis techniques through 

o Presentations about analysis applied to real-world defence and security problems 

o Multiple masterclasses and workshops from leading experts 

o A dynamic poster session! Present your work in front of a respected audience 

As well as inspiring experienced practitioners with new approaches and providing informal testing of ideas, ISMOR offers excellent development for early career analysts. 

Themes for 2018 will include: 

‘Making every penny count’ – covering issues of affordability and value-for-money 

‘Modelling for military operations’ – what models are needed and how do we develop them? 

‘Data Analytics’ – covering areas such as data science, ‘Big Data’ and advanced analytics 

‘Wargaming’ – how can we use wargaming to support decision making? 

Submit you abstract NOW for a paper or poster on any aspect of the application of analysis to defence and security, particularly those relating to the symposium themes.

Who should come to 35 ISMOR? 

 Customers, practitioners and researchers from :

• · Government departments
• · The Armed Forces
• · Industry
• · Academia 

To book your place and submit your abstract, please use the online registration facility at www.ismor.com. A range of pricing options including daily rates are available and have been held at 2015 levels with discounts available for early career analysts. 

Key Dates 

End March 2018 Deadline for early bird reduced rate. Book now to secure your place at the reduced rate. 

End April 2018 Deadline for abstracts. 

For help with your registration, contact the Royal Holloway conference office at [email protected].

Please bring this notice to the attention of any colleagues who might be interested in attending

Connections UK is an annual conference that brings together multi-national professionals to ‘advance, and sustain, the art, science and application of wargaming.’ The event is organised by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Defence Academy and King’s College London. The event is strongly supported by the Defence SIG.

Within UK Defence, wargaming is undergoing a major resurgence as exemplified this year by the UK MOD Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (VCDS) launching a wargaming initiative to “explore what would be required to reinvigorate our approach to wargaming with the aim of improving our decision making at all levels in Defence”.

Connections UK 2017 will focus on sharing wargaming best practice. It will explore how practitioners can continue to make effective use of wargaming techniques to deliver key benefits for business (public and private), security, emergency services and military organisations.

On day one, the attendees will have the opportunity to develop their wargame design skills and participate in a Megagame, whilst the main conference on days two and three will involve a mixture of plenary discussions and extensive hands-on experience.

This year’s conference will be covering topics such as ‘UK military Tri-Service and FCO wargaming’; ‘Updates on UK and US military wargaming initiatives’; ‘Current design ideas in hobby gaming’; ‘Wargaming in Education’; ‘Matrix gaming’; ‘Wargame design and analysis’, and ‘Simulating the intangible’. 

This is in addition to the keynote address and a Games Fair.

The cost of the main conference is only £135.

To find out more about Connections UK and the 2017 conference, including details on how to register, see:  http://professionalwargaming.co.uk/

Joint meeting of the

Defence and Simulation Special Interest Groups

This joint session between the UK Operational Research Society Defence Special Interest Group and Simulation Special Interest Group will review current trends and challenges in Defence Simulation, and discuss the impact of the rapidly emerging areas of hybrid simulation and (big) simulation analytics.  Presentations in these areas will be followed by a panel discussion which will capture near and far term trends and challenges.  This is a great opportunity to find out what’s going on in these areas and to join and exciting debate.

The day will run as follows:

10.00      Registration and coffee

10.30      Welcome and intros

10.40      Hybrid simulation: sliced bread, or toast?; Prof Sally Brailsford, Southampton

11.10      Trends and challenges in defence simulation; Matt Moore, NSC

11.40      Coffee

11.50      Big simulation analytics; Dr Simon Taylor, Brunel

12.20      Tour of the Cranfield Sim Lab       (Depending on numbers, may be split with a visit to the Defence Capability Centre)

13.00      Lunch

13.30      Simulation for training warfare in the information age; Jon Lloyd, Dstl

14.00      Designing complex systems by combining simulation with optimisation; Juergen Branke, Warwick

14.30      Panel session

15.15      Tour of DCC/Sim Lab

16.00      Depart

The panel will consist of the five presenters, plus Martin Kunc from Warwick, Anastasia Anagnostou from Brunel and Alan Robinson from Dstl.

Lunch and Refreshments will be available.

The meeting is free, but spaces are strictly limited: if you would like to attend please register as soon as possible and no later than 11^th November. Note that Photo ID will be required for entry to the Shrivenham Campus. To register, please contact [email protected]