Numerical Modeling and Simulation has reached an amazing level of maturity and therefore is increasingly used as a complement to Experimental Modeling and Analysis and as a design or certification tool in engineering applications. However, after more than thirty years of worldwide research efforts around Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, the problem of assessing and controlling the quality of the numerical solutions is still relevant. The design of sophisticated engineering systems requires increasingly complex and coupled modeling and increasingly time-consuming computations. Adaptive approaches, which provide reliable and cost efficient modeling and coherent coupling of different scales and mechanisms in a unique model, are more strategic and indispensable than ever.

The objective of the ADMOS 2011 conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the current state-of-the-art achievements in the fields including theoretical models, numerical methods, algorithmic strategies and challenging engineering applications.

ADMOS is one of the conferences that launched the ECCOMAS series of thematic events, in 2003. It is a medium-size conference (an average of about 80 delegates), which allows for dynamic and fruitful exchanges. After four successful editions, held successively in Göteborg in 2003, in Barcelona in 2005, in Göteborg in 2007 and in Bruxelles in 2009, the fifth edition of ADMOS will take place at Ecole Centrale Paris, in Châtenay-Malabry (France).