Conference Committee
Conference General Chair
Prof. Dr Marwan Al-Akaidi, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Local Chair
Haidar Harmanani, LAU, Department of Computer Science, Byblos, Lebanon
Local Co-Chair
Nashaat Masnour, LAU, Department of Computer Science, Beirut, Lebanon
Local Committee
Faysal Abu Khuzam, LAU, Department of Computer Science, Beirut, Lebanon
Nashaat Masnour, LAU, Department of Computer Science, Beirut, Lebanon
Samer Saab, LAU, Department of Computer Engineering, Lebanon
Iyad Ouaiss, LAU, Department of Computer Engineering, Lebanon
Walid Keirouz, American University at Beirut, Department of Computer Science
Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
International Programme Committee
Modelling Methodology and Modelling Tools
John Dalseng, Finnmark College, Alta, Norway
Helge Hagenauer, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Brian Hollocks, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Bjoern Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden
Panajotis T. Katsaros, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Thomas O Mathuna, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
Michel Minoux, Universite P. et M. Curie-CNRS, Paris cedex 05, France
Tudor Niculiu, University Politecnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Marc Parenthoen, CERV, Plouzane, France
Zdravko Terze, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Dmitry Zaitsev, Odessa National Telecommunications Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
Analysis Methodology
Abdel Aitouche, Hautes Etudes Industrielles, Lille Cedex, France
Bruno Ciciani, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
John Dalton, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Julie Dugdale, Universite Paul Sabatier, Narbonne, France
Mauro Iacono, SUN - II Universita di Napoli, Aversa (CE) Italy
Jens Kohlmeyer, Universitaet Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Francesco Moscato, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Aversa, Italy
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Gardanne, France
Nadia Zanzouri, ENIT, Tunis, Tunisia
Simulation of Networks and Communication
Salvatore D'Antonio, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica, Naples, Italy
Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, Khalifa University of Science, Sharjah, UAE
Med Salim Bouhlel, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia
Dirk Brade, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden
Eugen Dedu, LIFC, Montbelliard, France
Carlos Palau, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Djamel Sadok, The Federal University of Pernambuco - Brazil
Ahmad A. Sharieh, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Veronique Veque, Universite de Paris Sud LRI, Orsay, France
Complex Systems Simulation
Marta Pla Castells, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Michele Colajanni, Universita di Modena, Modena, Italy
Krzysztof Fujarewicz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Tom Dhaene, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Jean-Christophe Guyot, EADS SPACE Transportation, Les Mureaux Cedex, France
Daniel Huber, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Abder Koukam, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France
Jan Lemeire, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Jorge M. Perez, ITP, S.Fernando de Hernares, Spain
Panos Periorellis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Fatima Rateb, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Marc Rouff, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Jan Studzinski, Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Science
Simulation of Signal and Image Processing
Bruno Ciciani, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Aboul Ella Hassanine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
Tania Jimenez, LIA, Universite d'Avignon, France
Viorel Nicolau, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania
Bogdan Raducanu, UAB, Cerdanyola, Spain
Renate Sitte, Griffith University, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Australia
Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Hanene Trichili, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Ahmed M. Zeki, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Energy Systems Simulation
Paulo Maciel, UFPE, Recife, Brazil
Musleh B. AL-Otaibi, Alahmadi, Kuwait
Ahmad Jammal, Ministry of Education & Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon
Janos Sebestyen Janosy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary
Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Porto, Portugal
Tzanko Tzanov, Polytechnical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Patrick Waeger, EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Simulation in the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry
Ammar Al Khani, Espoo, Finland
Diganta Bhusan Das, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Eugenio Ferreira, Universidade do Minho, Braga Portugal
Vahid Nassehi, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Mohammad Al-Nawafleh, Tafila Applied University College, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Tafila, Jordan
Cornel Resteanu, Research Institute of Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
M R Riazi, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
Multimedia and Virtual Reality Systems
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Rion, Patras, Greece
Eckhard C. Bollow, Software Technology and IT-Project Management, Lueneburg, Germany
Maria Paule Ruiz del Puerto, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christoph Laroque, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Ahmed Mostefaoui , Laboratoire d'Informatique de Franche-Comte Montbeliard Cedex, France
Elena Pelican, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
Dorin-Mircea Popovici, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
Christian Reimann, C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Zasriati Azla Sabot, University Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR) Selanngor, Malaysia
Mike Sips, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Decision Processing in Management
Hadhoum Boukachour, Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Joel Colloc, Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Jeanne Schreurs, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Christine Sybord, Lyon 2 Lumiere University, Lyon, France
Behrouz Zarei, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Systems
Syed Afaq Husain, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Manuel Alfonseca, Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Clemens Heitzinger, Arizona State University (ASU), USA
Manuel Gonzalez Hidalgo, Edf. Anselm Turmeda, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain
Tomislav Pribanic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Oliver Straub, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Jean-Pierre Thomesse, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France
Olaf Tietje, Systaim GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
Modelling and Simulation for Industrial Applications
Track Chair: Prof. David Stockton, de Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Luis Felipe Acebes Arconada, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Leopoldo Arnesto, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Michel Benne, Sucreries de Bois Rouge, Saint-Andre, France
Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient cedex, France
Christelle Bloch, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort Cedex, France
PJ Byrne, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
A. Chatzinikolaou, Bosch Rexroth SA, Athens, Greece
Olaf Diegel, Massey University, Albany Campus, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
S Collart Dutilleul, LAGIS-EC-LILLE, Villenneuve d'Ascq, France
Georges Habchi, Polytech'Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
Sergej Kalaschnikow, VA TECH ELIN EBG Elektronik GmbH & Co, Vienna, Austria
Markus Koch, C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany
Habtom Mebrahtu, Anglia Polytechnica University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Pascal Meyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lars Moench, TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Carlos E. Pereira, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Caterina Rizzi, Universita degli Studi di Bergama, Dalmine, Italy
Amir Shirkhodaie, Tennessee State University, Nashville, USA
Hans Veeke, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Ramiro Velazquez, Universite Paris 6 - CNRS, Fontenay aux Roses, France
Val Vitanov, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
Ursula Wellen, Deutsche Post AG, Bonn, Germany
Joao de Silva Wellington, UFPE, Recife, Brazil
Simulation in Logistics, Traffic, Transport and Harbour Simulation
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden
Isabel Garcia Gutierrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain
Thomas Hanne, Fraunhofer-Institut ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Daniel Krajzewicz, GermanAerospace Centre, Berlin, Germany
Seung Man Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA
Herve Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France
Vittorio Maniezzo, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Rafael J. Martinez, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Philippe Mussi, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Frederic Serin, IUT du Havre, Le Havre, France
Web based Simulation
Victor Bassilious, University of Abertay Dundee, United Kingdom
Jorge Marx Gomez, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Wolfgang Kuehn, University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Germany
Jose Machado, Unviersidade do Minho, Braga Codex, Portugal
Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Ilissia, Athens, Greece
Francesco Quaglia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
Stefan Sarstedt, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Simulation in Information Processing
Julien Bourgeois, LIFC, Montbelliard, France
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France
Patrick De Causmaecker, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 04, France
Laurent Guillon, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France
Jean-Claude Hochon, GFI Consulting, Toulouse, France
Majed Khodr, Manar University, Lebanon
Peter Lawrence, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Christophe Roche, Universite de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac cedex, France
Christian Siemers, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Nagi Wakimm, Saint Esprit University, Beirut, Lebanon
Simulation in Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
Chrissanthi Angeli, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Piotr Bania, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Mokhtar Beldjehem, St.Anne's University, Halifax, Canada
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Hagenberg, Austria
Paulo Alexandre Ribeiro Cortez, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
Rashidy Kanan, University of Amirkabir, Tehran, Iran
Nashat Mansour, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Antoni Ligeza, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Marie-Ange Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France
Paulo Moura Oliveira, UTAD-Universidade de Tres-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
S.Tauseef Ur Rehman, Pakistan
Kifah Tout, The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Angus Wu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Simulation in the Built Environment
Bernadette O'Regan, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Agustin Yague, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Simulation in Archaeology
Jean Yves Blaise, UMR CNRS/MCC 694 MAP, Marseille, France
Anders Hast, University of Gavle, Gavle, Sweden
Wolfgang Kreutzer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Marcos A Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield , United Kingdom
Simulation Projects in the Arab World
Saleh Al-Jufout, Tafila Technical University, Tafila, Jordan
Mohamed-Aly O. Louly, University of Technology, Troyes, France
