The Department of Statistics and Operation Research of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in collaboration with the Statistics Department of the Barcelona University, the Department of Statistical Modelling of Saint Petersburg State University and INFORMS Simulation Society are sponsoring the 9th International Workshop on Simulation.

This international conference is devoted to statistical techniques in stochastic simulation, data collection and analysis of scientific experiments and studies representing broad areas of interest. The 1st – 6th Workshops took place in St. Petersburg (Russia) in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2009, the seventh in June 2013 in Rimini, and the eight in September 2015 in Vienna.

Selected papers from the workshop (of size 8 – 15 pages) will be published in special issues of two journals: «Statistical Papers» and «Communication in Statistics».

The Ninth Workshop will take place in the UPC Campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona on June 25 – 29, 2018. A book of abstracts will be available at the beginning of the Conference. There will be also interesting cultural programs and excursions.

For more information: http://ssa.cf.ac.uk/iws2018/index.htm