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A. Applied and computational mathematics

Stream Leader: Barry Croke

SESSIONS
- A1. Advances in neural networks, soft systems and complex systems modelling and applications
  Session Organiser: Sandhya Samarasinghe
- A2. Spatial/spatio-temporal predictive modelling: variable selection, performance assessment and uncertainty quantification
  Session Organisers: Jin Li and Shuvo Bakar
- A3. Solving practical inverse problems
  Session Organisers: Bob Anderssen and Markus Hegland
- A4. Bridging between mathematical and physically based models
  Session Organisers: Suxia Liu, Earl Bardsley, Milton Speer and Xingguo Mo
- A5. Industrial modelling and simulation
  Session Organisers: Bob Anderssen and Julia Piantadosi

B. ASOR – DORS

Stream Leaders: Simon Dunstall and Arvind Chandran

SESSIONS
- B1. Analysis and decision making under uncertainty
  Session Organisers: Geoff Lee and Darryn Reid
- B2. Defence decision analysis
  Session Organiser: Richard Taylor
- B3. Force design and wargaming
  Session Organiser: Renee Kidson
- B4. Machine learning in Defence applications
  Session Organiser: Michael Papasimeon
- B5. OR methods, platforms and applications
  Session Organiser: Brandon Pincombe
- B6. OR/CP and analytics for transport, logistics, and supply chain
  Session Organiser: TBA
- B7. Heuristics and matheuristics in scheduling, logistics and supply chain
  Session Organisers: Amir Salehipour, Babak Abbasi and Andreas Ernst
- B8. Design of experiments
  Session Organisers: Matthew Dragovic, Andrew Gill and David Marlow
- B9. Simulation-based analysis
  Session Organisers: Hasan Turan, Enayat Moallemi and Sondoss Elsawah

C. Biological systems

Stream Leaders: Malcolm McPhee and David Mayer

SESSIONS
- C1. Agricultural systems
  Session Organisers: Malcolm McPhee and David Mayer
- C2. Emerging technology in DSS for agriculture
  Session Organisers: Neville Herrmann and Eric Zurcher
- C3. Innovative tools to support modelling
  Session Organisers: Val Snow and Dean Holzworth
- C4. Advances in agent-based modelling and their statistical challenges in biological, ecological and agricultural systems
  Session Organisers: Mitchell Welch, Timothy Schaerf, Brenda Vo and Paul Kwan
- C5. Advances in computational biology and bioinformatics – neural networks, artificial intelligence and complex systems modelling approaches
  Session Organiser: Sandhya Samarasinghe
- C6. Pasture and rangelands system modelling
  Session Organiser: Jo Owens

D. Computer science and engineering

Stream Leaders: Tim Peterson and Nicholas Car

SESSIONS
- D1. Provenance
  Session Organisers: Nicholas Car, Mingfang Wu and Wolfgang Mayer
- D2. Workflows and modelling software: opportunities, best practice and case studies
  Session Organiser: Paul Cleary
- D3. Cloud and web applications for environmental data analysis and modelling
  Session Organiser: Dan Ames
- D4. Modelling, simulation and optimisation in engineering
  Session Organisers: Amer Farhan Rafique and Qasim Zeeshan
- D5. Machine-learning for environmental modelling
  Session Organisers: Wenyan Wu, Conrad Wasko, Ataur Rahman and Holger R Maier

E. Economics and finance

Stream Leaders: Michael McAleer and Chia-Lin Chang

SESSIONS
- E1. Modelling international business finance and financial markets in Asia
  Session Organiser: Zhaoyong Zhang
- E2. Technology and innovation
  Session Organiser: Chia-Lin Chang
- E3. Quantitative and computational finance
  Session Organisers: Chia-Lin Chang and Michael McAleer
- E4. Financial risk management
  Session Organiser: Michael McAleer
- E5. Ethical and sustainable finance
  Session Organisers: Sazali Abidin and Christopher Gan

F. Energy, integrated infrastructure and urban planning

Stream Leaders: John Boland and Pascal Perez

SESSIONS
- F1. Probabilistic forecasting of solar farm output
  Session Organiser: John Boland
- F2. Integrating live data in simulation
  Session Organisers: Robert Tanton, Johan Barthelemy and Nicolas Verstaevel
- F3. New trends in modelling and simulation of future mobility
  Session Organisers: Bo Du and Michael Bell
- F4. Urban observatories and city benchmarking
  Session Organisers: Cole Hendrigan and Gideon Aschwanden
- F5. Modelling the impact of low carbon energies
  Session Organisers: Pascal Perez, Fariba Ramezani and Michael Young

G. Environment and ecology

Stream Leaders: Andre Zerger, Brett Bryan and Grant Hamilton

SESSIONS
- G1. Modelling for the Great Barrier Reef
  Session Organiser: Barbara Robson
- G2. Modelling complex human-natural systems under uncertainty: advances of participatory and computational approaches
  Session Organisers: Enayat Moallemi, Shirin Malekpour and Brett Bryan
- G3. The role of modelling and simulation to supporting evidence-based decision making in agriculture and biosecurity: science meets policy
  Session Organiser: Hazel Parry
- G4. Integrating translational ecology in freshwater systems
  Session Organisers: Ashmita Sengupta and Danial Stratford
- G5. Assessing impacts of resource developments on ecosystems
  Session Organisers: Brent Henderson, Kate Holland, Linda Merrin and Steve Lewis
- G6. GIS and environmental modelling
  Session Organiser: Shawn Laffan
- G7. Integrated modelling and data science for environmental and human health
  Session Organisers: Stefan Reis, Gavin Pereira, Bin Jalaludin, Ivan Hanigan and Nicholas Osborne
- G8. Modelling sustainable food and land systems
  Session Organisers: Michalis Hadjikakou and Brett Bryan
- G9. Informatics and machine learning for ecology and agriculture
  Session Organisers: Grant Hamilton, Andre Zerger and Evangeline Corcoran

H. Global change and natural hazards

Stream Leaders: Jason Evans and Christoph Rudiger

SESSIONS
- H1. Global change population and economic risk assessments and risk-informed decision-making: modelling and simulation
  Session Organisers: Peijun Shi and Yongqiang Zhang
- H2. Projections of regional climate change: from modelling to applications
  Session Organiser: Jason Evans
- H3. Enhancing real-time rainfall information: retrievals, analyses and forecasts
  Session Organisers: Pablo Rozas-Larraondo and Luigi J Renzullo
- H4. Climate impacts on soil security
  Session Organiser: Xihua Yang
- H5. New approaches to measure and model the dynamics of rivers, wetlands and constructed water bodies
  Session Organisers: Jiawei Hou, Norman Mueller, Claire Krause and Albert Van Dijk
- H6. Earth observation data assimilation for improved land surface modelling
  Session Organisers: Siyuan Tian, Luigi J Renzullo and Wendy Sharples
- H7. Modelling of bushfire dynamics, fire weather, impact and risk
  Session Organiser: Jason Sharples
- H8. Single and multiple natural hazards: impacts on regional to global scales
  Session Organisers: Fei Ji and Nicholas Herold
- H9. UNESCO initiatives for enhanced resilience and agenda 2030 Delivery in Asia and the Pacific region
  Session Organisers: Ai Sugiura and Shahbaz Khan

I. Health informatics

Stream Leaders: Louise Freebairn and Irene Hudson

SESSIONS
- I1. Modelling cancer, chronic disease, and safety data in translational research
  Session Organisers: Sejong Bae, Karan P Singh, Jong Bae Baek and Alfred Bartolucci
- I2. Health care decision support: applications and challenges
  Session Organisers: Louise Freebairn, Jo-An Atkinson, Shaowen Qin and Ante Prodan
- I3. Data science and simulation modelling methods in the health sector
  Session Organisers: Jo-An Atkinson, Louise Freebairn, Shaowen Qin and Ante Prodan
- I4. Climate change and health – risks, health metrics and alerting
  Session Organisers: Irene Hudson, Ainura Tursunalieva and Madawa Jayawardana

J. Participatory decision making and modelling social systems

Stream Leaders: Gregory Summerell and Oz Sahin

SESSIONS
- J1. Integrated participatory systems approach for modelling socio-ecological systems
  Session Organisers: Russell Richards and Oz Sahin
- J2. Holistic modelling and optimisation for sustainable design of buildings and communities
  Session Organisers: Edoardo Bertone and Emiliya Suprun
- J3. Modelling for action: how can we make ourselves heard?
  Session Organisers: Alexey Voinov, Flavio Pileggi, Martin Volk and Ghassan Beydoun
- J4. Application of new data, visualisation, analytics and decision support tools/systems for increasing climate resilience of infrastructure systems
  Session Organisers: Fahim Tonmoy and Oz Sahin
- J5. Science for sustainability: learning how to successfully use modelling and simulation to promote sustainability at the science-for-policy and science-for-management interfaces
  Session Organisers: Greg Summerell and Keith Matthews
- J6. Optimisation methods and applications to socio-environmental principle-agent problems
  Session Organisers: Brad Barnhart and Martin Volk
- J7. Integrated assessment and modelling for understanding pathways for socio-environmental systems: case studies of impact
  Session Organisers: Lilly Lim-Camacho, Wendy Merritt and Serena Hamilton
- J8. Modelling and decision making under uncertainty
  Session Organisers: Joseph Guillaume, Tony Jakeman, Holger Maier and Lucy Marshall
- J9. Being socially inclusive in your modelling practices: what does this mean and what are the benefits?
  Session Organiser: Susan Cuddy

K. Water resources

Stream Leaders: Francis Chiew and Jai Vaze

SESSIONS
- K1. Collaborative arrangements to support and improve water modelling
  Session Organisers: Paul Lawrence, Brian McIntosh, Piet Filet, Jenny Riches, Ed Couriel and Jean Erbacher
- K2. Flood and tsunami modelling: techniques and applications
  Session Organisers: Fazlul Karim, Stephen Roberts, Jin Teng and Jai Vaze
- K3. Large sample and high resolution hydrological studies to tackle a rapidly changing world
  Session Organisers: Yongqiang Zhang, Jorge Peña Arancibia, Fubao Sun and Dongryeol Ryu
- K4. Meeting the simulation challenges of Northern Australia
  Session Organiser: Justin Hughes
- K5. Observing and modelling surface water dynamics
  Session Organisers: Stefania Grimaldi, Valentijn Pauwels, Jeff Walker and Ashley Wright
- K6. Modelling eco-hydrological processes at different spatial and temporal scales
  Session Organisers: Edoardo Daly, Patricia Saco, Federico Maggi and Willem Vervoort
- K7. Hydrologic non-stationarity and extrapolating models to predict the future
  Session Organisers: Jai Vaze, Francis Chiew, Murray Peel, Margarita Saft and Tim Peterson
- K8. Advances in large scale hydrological modelling to improve predictions and assessments of water availability and accounting
  Session Organisers: Jai Vaze, David Post, Barry Croke and Russell Crosbie
- K9. Enabling better water resources decision making in the face of uncertainty
  Session Organisers: Michelle Ho, Bree Bennett and Lanying Zhang
- K10. Land surface observation and assimilation: data-model integration approach for improved hydrologic prediction and water resources management
  Session Organisers: In-Young Yeo, Jeff Walker, Xiaoling Wu and Medhi Khaki
- K11. Quantifying and managing hydroclimatic variability and change – getting maximum value from observed data, palaeoclimate records and climate models
  Session Organisers: Anthony Kiem, Andrew Magee and Tessa Vance
- K12. When models fail: lessons learned from false starts, wrong turns and dead ends
  Session Organisers: Fiona Johnson, Lucy Marshall, James Bennett and Mark Thyer
- K13. Advances and applications in hydrometeorological forecasting
  Session Organisers: Tze Ling (Seline) Ng, Céline Cattoën-Gilbert, David Robertson, James Bennett, QJ Wang and Mark Thyer
- K14. Understanding and quantifying uncertainties in hydrologic and environmental models
  Session Organisers: Lucy Marshall, Danlu Guo and Stefania Grimaldi
- K15. Advances in water quality modelling and analysis
  Session Organisers: Anna Lintern, Danlu Guo, Susan Cuddy, Freeman Cook, Andrew Western, Sandy Elliot, Baihua Fu, Ulrike Bende-Michl, Dave Waters and Tony Weber
- K16. Integrated urban water cycle modelling
  Session Organisers: Meenakshi Arora and Hector Malano
- K17. Modelling and assessing water resources and hydrology at the national level
  Session Organisers: Chantal Donnelly, Andrew Frost and Jai Vaze
- K18. Groundwater hydrology
  Session Organisers: Tim Peterson, Elisabetta Carrara and Willem Vervoort
- K19. River system modelling for water resources management: advances and challenges
  Session Organisers: Dushmanta Dutta, Richard Beecham, Linda Holz and Alistair Korn
- K20. Understanding water-poverty dynamics for infrastructure development
  Session Organisers: Emily Barbour, Nicky Grigg, Mashfiqus Salehin and Jim Hall
- K21. Cumulative impacts of mining on water, ecology and society
  Session Organisers: Neil McIntyre, David Post and Liliana Pagliero
- K22. Australian drought: assessment and management for sustainable development
  Session Organisers: Malcolm Watson, Jannatun Nahar and Fiona Johnson
- K23. Managing the Great Barrier Reef
  Session Organiser: Dave Waters
- K24. Spatial analysis for hydrological modelling
  Session Organisers: John Gallant and Jen Austin
- K25. eWater Source for river basin modelling
  Session Organisers: Robert Carr and Trudy Green
- K26. Innovations in water sensitive urban design using MUSIC
  Session Organisers: Ashis Dey and Trudy Green
- K27. Using eWater Source to support Integrated Water Resource Management
  Session Organisers: Geoff Adams and Trudy Green
- K28. Understanding hydrological processes in a changing environment
  Session Organisers: Lei Cheng, Pan Liu, Lu Zhang, Jai Vaze and Francis Chiew

Supporting evidence-based decision making: the role of modelling and simulation