Conference Committee
General Conference Chairs
Joel Colloc, CESH (Centre Européen de Santé Humanitaire) Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France
Claude Petit, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France
General Program Chairs
Khaled Ghedira, Tunisia
TBA
Local Committee
TBA
International Programme Committee
Discrete Simulation Methodology, Languages and Tools
Matthias Becker, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Carmen Bobeanu, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Helge Hagenauer, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Sophie Hennequin, ENIM, Metz Cedex, France
Mauro Iacono, SUN II, Universita di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Bjorn Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Sarka Kvetonova, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Pierre l'Ecuyer, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Jan Lemeire, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Lenin Lemus, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Maria do Rosário Moreira, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Aziz Naamane, lSIS-EPUM, Marseille, France
Jose Neves, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Werner Pohlmann, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria .
Jiri Safarik, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic .
Werner Sandmann, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
Frederic Serin, IUT du Havre, Le Havre, France
Jaroslav Sklenar, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Giorgio Tonella, Univ. de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
Antonella Zanzi, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy
Simulation in Manufacturing
Reza Azadegan, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
Peter Byrne, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Ana Camacho, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Luis Camarinha-Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Eduardo Castellano, IKERLAN Technological Research Centre, Mondragón-Arrasate, Spain
Remy Dupas, Universite Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France
Baltazár Frankovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Alexander Felfernig, University of Klagensfurt, Klagensfurt, Austria
Michel Gourgand, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Bernard Grabot, LGP-ENIT, Tarbes, France
Pouria Homayonifar, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Christophe Laroque, Universitaet Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Habtom Mebrahtu, APU, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Carlo Meloni, Politecnico di Bari - DEE, Bari, Italy
Pascal Meyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Birgit Oberer, TK, Austria, Villach, Austria
Henri Pierreval, IFMA, Aubiere Cedex, France
Marcos A.Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Flavio Tonelli, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Markus Vorderwinkler, PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr, Austria
Simulation in Steel Manufacturing
Brian Hollocks, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Simulation in Automotive Systems
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jesus Felez, UPM, Madrid, Spain
Morteza Montazeri, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Rob Walker, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Simulation in Robotics
Leopoldo Arnesto Angel, UPV, Valencia, Spain
A. Chatzinikolaou, Athens, Greece
Mohsen Bahramni, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Andrzej Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technollogy, Warsaw, Poland
Markus Koch, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
George L.Kovacs, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary .
Terje Kristensen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Alexandru Marin, Polytechnical Inst.of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Martin Mellado, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Bogdan Raducanu, Computer Vision Centre, UAB, Barcelona, Spain
Krzysztof Skrzypczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Angel Valera, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Simulation in Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications
Kamel Barkaoui, CEDRIC-CNAM, Paris, France
Dietmar Boenke, Hochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Boguslaw Butrylo, Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest, France
Tom Dhaene, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Domenico Giunta, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Paulo Maciel, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Ana Pajares, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Maurizio Palesi,Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Fernando Boronat Segui, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Renate Sitte, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Simulation in Electronics Manufacturing
Track Chair: Lars Moench, Fernuniversitat Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Theresa Roeder, San Francisco State University, USA .
Oliver Rose, Dresden University of Technology, Germany .
Gerald Weigert, Dresden University of Technology, Germany .
Simulation of Complex Multiprocessor Systems
Orhan Gemikonakli, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
Simulation in Logistics, Transport and Harbour Simulation
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Isabel Garcia Guttierez, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Martin Grunow, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland
Daniel Krajzewicz, German Aerospace Centre, Berlin, Germany
Peter Lawrence, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Marie-Ange Manier, UTBM, Belfort, France
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland
Jaap Ottjes, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Selwyn Piramuthu, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Rik van Landeghem, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Hans Veeke, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Pengjun Zheng, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Hospital Logistics Simulation
Track Chair: Christine Verdier, IMAG, Grenoble, France
Co-Chair: Giorgio Romanin-Jacur, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy
Francois Chapuis, SIS, University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Claude Dussart, CESH, University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Jose Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Claude Petit, CESH, University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Peter Summons, University of Newcastle, Australia
Complex Systems Modelling
Ivan Bruha, McMaster University, Canada
Frantisek Capkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Gabriella Dellino, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom
Alessandro Genco, Universita di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Krzysztof Fujarewicz, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland
Eugene Kindler, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic .
Marielle Mokhtari, Defence R&D Canada, Valcantier, Canada
Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS, Toulouse, France
Marc Parenthoen, CERV, Plouzane, France
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome I, Rome, Italy
Filippo Queirolo, Comotec, Morez, France
Miguel Rocha, University do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Michael Sobolewski, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Simulation in Aerospace
Wolfgang Kuehn, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany .
Martin Spieck, DLR, Goettingen, Germany .
Zdravko Terze, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Tao Wan, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Marine Simulation
Cyril Ray, Ecole Navale, Brest, France
Simulation in Industrial Design and Product Design
Chiara Catalano, IMATI-CNR, Genoa, Italy
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Jorge Perez Mateos, Industria de Turbopropulsores SA, Madrid, Spain
Catarina Rizzi, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Simulation in Engineering Processes
Chrissanti Angeli, Technological Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Blazej Balasz, Technical University of Koszalin, Koszalin, Poland
Alejandra Gomez Padilla, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Fouad Riane, CREGI-FUCAM, Mons, Belgium .
Christopher Schlick, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Jan Studzinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Joao Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Simulation in Energy and Power Systems
Saleh Al-Jufout, Tafila Technical University, Tafila, Jordan
Manuel Cordeiro, CETAV/UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal
Janos-Sebestyen Janosy, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Mohammad Montakhab, University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Simulation in Multibody Systems
Track Chair: Bernd Schaefer, DLR, Wessling, Germany
Ignacio GarcÃa-Fernández, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Jose Diaz Lopez, Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden .
Simulation in Chemical, Petroleum and Mining Engineering
Diganta Das, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Klaus Hellgardt, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Vahid Nassehi, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Mohamad R. Riazi, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Simulation in Military and Defense
Roberto de Beauclair Seixas, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rinardo Michelini, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Carlos Palau, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Matthias Reuter, CUTEC Gmbh, TU-Clausthal, Clausthal, Germany .
Virtual Reality and Graphical Simulation in Industrial Simulation
Track Chair: Guodong Shao, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Emilio Camahort, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Anders Hast, University of Gavle, Gavle, Sweden
Pieter Jorissen, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Fabrizio Lamberti, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy .
Sudhir Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada .
Verification, Validation and Accreditation
Mokhtar Beldjehem, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Roberto Revetria, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Agustin Yague, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dmitri Zaitsev, Odessa National Telecom University, Odessa, Ukraine
Simulation and Training
Manuel Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Wenji Mao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
Dorin-Mircea Popovici, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
Esjan Rajabally, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Gerhard Schreck, Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany
Ahmed Bin Subaih, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom .
Workshops
Workshop on Modelling and Simulation in the Textile Industry
Track Chair: Vladan Koncar, ENSAIT, Roubaix, France
Antonela Curteza, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Peter Farber, Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld, Germany
Jiri Militky, Technical University Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic .
Ali Shams-Nateri, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran
Workshop on Simulation in Sports
Track Chair: Raphaël Massarelli CRIS University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Paolo Grigolini, University of Texas, Denton, USA (tbc)
Arne Sieber, Profactor Solutions GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria (tbc)
Thierry Terret, CRIS, Lyon, France
RFID Track
Yo-Ping Huang, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jaap Ottjes, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Selwyn Piramuthu, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Hans Veeke, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden
Petr Hanacek, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Jairo Montoya Torres, Universidad de la Sabana, Chia, Columbia
NANOSIM
Clemens Heitzinger, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Javier Marin, ETSI, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain .
Workshop Augmented Reality and Pervasive Systems in Simulation
Alessandro Genco, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Workshop on Simulation in Lean Manufacturing
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Abdelaziz Bouras, University of Lyon II, Bron Cedex, France
Hendrik Van Landeghem, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
