The aim of the Asian Simulation Technology Conference is to give a state of the art overview of industrial simulation related basic research and to provide an annual status report on present day simulation research within a particular Asian country in relation to other Asian/Australasian countries and the rest of the world. This exchange of people, techniques and ideas among the different disciplines, universities and industry, which support the integration of simulation in the everyday workplace, is the basic premise at the heart of the ASTEC Conference. Each year ASTEC will adapt its aim in response to the demands of research at that particular point in time and on the bequest of the organizing country's and university's research needs.