26th European Simulation and Modelling Conference- ESM'2012, October 22-24, 2012, FOM, Essen, Germany, Preliminary Programme


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Preliminary Programme

Session Timing

October22

08.00-17.00 Registration
09.00-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.00 Keynote Speaker - Prof. Clausen, Fraunhofer Institute
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Sessions
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 Sessions
17.30 Free Evening

October 23

08.30-17.00 Registration
09.00-09.30 Welcome - Prof. Hermeier, FOM
09.30-10.30 Keynote Speaker - Dr. Montemanni, IDSIA
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Sessions
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Sessions/Tutorial
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 Sessions /Workshop
20.00-23.00 Conference Dinner

October 24

08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 Sessions
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-12.45 Closing Session and Best Paper Award

Keynote Speeches

Simulation and modelling of transport networks and logistic nodes
Prof. Uwe Clausen, Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Dortmund, Germany

Scheduling problems with precedence constraints: models and algorithms
Dr. Roberto Montemanni, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA),Manno, Switzerland

Tutorial

MapleSim 6
Thomas Richard, Senior Applications Engineer, Maplesoft

Workshop

Simulation in Genetics and QTL-mapping
Dr.David Mester, Yefim Ronin and Abraham Korol, Institute of Evolution, Haifa University
Israel

SESSIONS

SIMULATION TOOLS

TOOLS_07
A Survey on Multi-Formalism Performance Evaluation Tools

Simonetta Balsamo, Gian-Luca Dei Rossi and Andrea Marin, DAIS - Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy

PAR_01
Automatic Parallelization of a Gap Model using Java and OpenCL

Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Arthur Forest, Julien Pal, Bruno Corbara and D.R.C. Hill, ISIMA, CNRS, Aubiere, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, LIMOS, Clermont Ferrand, France

TOOLS_06
Hybrid Systems Modelling and Simulation in DESTECS: a Co-Simulation Approach

Yunyun Ni and Jan F. Broenink, CTIT Institute, University of Twente, Twente, The Netherlands

PAR_02
From Sequence Diagrams UML 2 x TO FD DEVS

Roberto Pasqua, Damien Foures, Vincent Albert and Alexandre Nketsa, CNRS, LAAS, Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

METH_06
Computer Simulation of Photonic Crystal Fibers Using FDTD Method

Raed. K. Ibrahim and Oras. A. Shareef, Electrical and Electronic Technical College, Baghdad, Iraq

FUZZY SIMULATION AND AI

OPT_02
Reliability Based Pareto Optimal Design of Controller for Probabilistic Systems using Fuzzy Rule Based Systems and GA

A. Jamali, B. Ahmadi and N.Nariman-zadeh, The University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

AI_01
Simulation of the Delphi Method with a Fuzzy Expert System

Richard Pohl and Christina Klüver, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

AI_02
Heuristic Based Model Selection for a New Least Squares SVM Solution

Jingjing Zhang and Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

N-03
Catalyst Yield Prediction by ANN Models

Nasibeh Hassanjanikhoshkroud, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

FLUID_02
Failures Localization at the Water Networks by Means of Neuronal Nets

Jan Studzinski, Izabela Rojek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION

HEALTH_02
Study of Different Patient Controlled Analgesia Modes using Hybrid Simulation Technique

Henrikas Pranevicius, Tadas Kraujalis and Vytautas Pilkauskas, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania and Mindaugas Pranevicius, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Osvaldas Pranevicius, New York Hospital Queens Flushing, USA

ECO_03
Simulations in Genome Mapping

David Mester, Yefim Ronin, Zeev Frenkel, Dina Mitkov and Abraham Korol, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

METH_10
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods to Analyze the Steady-State Flux Solution Space of Metabolic Network Models

Thomas Latzko, Uwe Jaekel, Wolfgang Wiechert and Katharina Noh, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, JARA-HPC, Julich, Germany

METH_15
Nonparametric Estimation of a Survival Function using Refined Descriptive Sampling

Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and Mahdia Azzal, University A. Mira of Bejaia, Algeria

ECO_01
COASTGEN: A new Agent Based Modelling Tool for Invasive Spartina Species

James T. Murphy and Mark Johnson, NUI Galway, Galway and Ray Walshe, CloudCORE Cloud Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

METH_03
Vine Model Design using a Domain Specific Modeling Language

Guillaume Barbier and Véronique Cucchi, ITK SAS, Montpellier and Jérémy Flusin, Clermont Université, Clermont-Ferrand and François Pinet, Irstea, UR TSCF, Aubière and David Hill, ISIMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France

SIMULATION IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

PAR_04
A Distributed Simulation Tool on Windows Phone 7

Manuel Díaz, Daniel Garrido, Luis Llopis and Enrique Soler, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

TOOLS_09
Team-K: A New Kernel for Soft Real Time Simulation

Manuel Díaz, Daniel Garrido, Luis Llopis, Enrique Soler, University of Málaga and Sergio Romero, Software for Critical Systems S.L, Malaga, Spain

FLUID_01
ACFD Approach for CANDU6 Fuel Bundle Subcooled Boiling Flow

I. Prisecaru and D. Dupleac, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, and S. Nicolici and R. Bilegan, Subsidiary of Engineering and Technology for Nuclear Projects, Magurele – Ilfov, Romania

FLUID_03
Development of CANDU 6 moderator models for simulating the flow circulation and predicting temperature distribution inside the Calandria vessel

I. Prisecaru, D. Dupleac and S. Nicolici, Politehnica University of Bucharest, and R. Arsene, S.C. Energonuclear S.A., Bucharest, Romania

ELECTRONIC NETWORKS

GRAPH_TOOL_01
Providing a Graphical User Interface for the Modelling of Network Simulator 3 Scenarios

Eduardo M.D. Marques and Jorge J.F. Sousa, University of Madeira (UMa), Funchal - Madeira, Portugal and Paulo N.M. Sampaio, Salvador University (UNIFACS), Salvador, BA, Brazil

ANMT_01
Influence of relative traffic distribution in nodes with blocking: an analytical model

Herwig Bruneel, Willem Melange, Bart Steyaert, Dieter Claeys and Joris Walraevens, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

TOOLS_04
RECSIM - A Simulator for reconfigurable Network on Chip Topologies

Alexander Logvinenko and Dietmar Tutsch, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

METH_07
Towards the Modelling of the Fault Tolerance Mechanism of the PIM SM Multicast Routing protocol in an IPTV Environment

Gábor Lencse and István Derka, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary

HUMAN –MACHINE SIMULATION

METH_05_RAND
Using Guided Simulation to Improve a Model-Based Design Process of Complex Human Machine Systems

Stefan Puch and Martin Franzle, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and Bertram Wortelen and Thomas Peikenkamp OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany

OPT_05
Design and Optimisation of a Motion Cueing Algorithm for a Truck Simulator

E. Thöndel, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

METH_08
Analysis of the Electro Hydraulic Speed Control Systems by Real Time Simulation with Hardware in the Loop

Marius Alexandru Mitroi, Daniel Dragos Ion Guta, Georgiana Claudia Vasiliu, Daniela Vasiliu and Nicolae Vasiliu, University POLITECHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

GRAPH_04
Simultaneous Simulation of one Dimensional Flexible Objects in 3-D Graphical Simulation Environments

Frank Heinze, Institute for Research and Transfer, RIF e.V., Dortmund and Juergen Rossmann, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, and Bartholomaeus Rudak, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

RISK MANAGEMENT

EMERG_01
SimReg: System Dynamics Simulation of Interregional Risk Management

Viveca Asproth, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

EMERG_03
Modeling and Simulation of Operational Risks in the Finance Industry

Christoph Brandt, Technical University of Berlin, Germany & Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg and Francesco Santini, Natallia Kokash and Farhad Arbab, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands

POLICY AND BUSINESS PROCESS SIMULATION

AGENT_03
Provenance and Traceability in Agent Based Policy Simulation

Ulf Lotzmann and Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

OPT_01
An Electric Optimization Problem

William Conley, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, U.S.A.

AGENT_01
An Agent-Based Simulation of Viral Marketing Effects in Social Networks

Axel Hummel, Heiko Kern, Stefan Kuhne, University of Leipzig, Leipzig and Arndt Dohler, Intershop Communications AG, Intershop Tower, Jena, Germany

TOOLS_05
A Business Language for a Distributed Simulation Framework

Carlos Bragança de Oliveira and António Carvalho Brito, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

WEB_01
Analysis of Business Process Dynamic Models for Development of Simulation Modeling Service

Konstantin Aksyonov, Eugene Bykov, V. Kamelsky, Olga Aksyonova, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia

METH_13
University Production Function Simulation

Matthias Klumpp, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

EDU_01
Higher Education Productivity and Quality Modelling with Data Envelopment Analysis Methods

Golnaz Maleki, Matthias Klumpp and Marc Cuypers, HELENA Research Group, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

INTEL_03
Work Harmonization in Construction Repetitive Projects

Magdalena Hajdasz, Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

TOOLS_02
Using Protocol State Machines to Support Simulation-Based Emulation Projects

Torben Meyer, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg and Steffen Strassburger, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany

TOOLS_03
Tool for Collaborative Support in Pre-Project Phase

Michal Žák and Šárka Květoňová, Brno University of Technology, Brno and Jiří Slabý, IBM Czech Republic s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic

PETRI_01
Colored Petri Nets in the Simulation of ETL Standard Tasks the Surrogate Pipelining Case

Diogo Silva, Orlando Belo and João M. Fernandes, ALGORITMI R&D Centre, University of Minho, Portugal

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT LOGISTICS

HEALTH_04
Step towards Simulation and Monitoring of Hospital Waiting Lists

Marta Viana, Olivia Oliveira, Antonio Abelha and Jose Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

HEALTH_01
Simulation training for Safer Transitions of Patients in Fragmented Health Care Systems

Ranjit Singh, Diana Anderson and Gurdev Singh, State University of New York at Buffalo. USA and Alan C. Roberts, Royal Society of Medicine and Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation, University of Bradford, United Kingdom and Sonjoy Singh and Ashok Singh, Niagara Family Medicine Associates, Niagara Falls, USA and Ron Brooks, Dendress Corporation, Buffalo, USA

INTEL_01
Intelligent Decision Support in Intensive Care – Towards Technology Acceptance

Filipe Portela and Manuel Filipe Santos, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães and José Machado, António Abelha and José Neves, Universidade do Minho, Braga and Álvaro Silva and Fernando Rua, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Hospital Santo António, Porto, Portugal

FACILITY PLANNING

N_01
Challenges of using Discrete Event Simulation for facility planning in SMEs: A Case Study

Ruby W.C.Hughes, Rab Scott and Keith Ridgway, AMRC with Boeing, University of Sheffield, Rotherham, United Kingdom

METH_12
Hybrid modeling of strategy and production in the manufacturing industry –taking the best from system dynamics and discrete event simulation

Bojan D. Jovanoski and Robert Minovski, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Karpos II b.b., Skopje, Macedonia and Gerald Lichtenegger and Siegfried Vössner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

METH_11
Virtual Commissioning for PLC Simulation

Minsuk Ko, Dae Soon Chang, and Sang C. Park, Ajou University, Yeongtong-gu, Korea

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

OPT_03
Graphical Modelling and Simulation of Product Development Projects

Sebastian Schneider and Susanne Mutze-Niewohner, IAW, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen and Ralf Laue, University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau, Zwickau and Arian Storch, it factum GmbH Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

METH_01
Model-Based Design of Paper Handling in Printers

Ralf Stamps, Joanna van de Mortel-Fronczak, Jos Baeten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven and Lou Somers, Oce-Technologies B.V., Venlo, The Netherlands

N_02
Towards Performance Based Design: Scope of using Computer Based Lighting Simulation Tool for Designing Efficient Luminaire Layout of a Production Space in the Context of Dhaka Region, Bangladesh

Md Mohataz Hossain, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION

GEO_AGENT_01
Supply Chain Building Blocks –Integration of Geographic Information in an Agent Based Model for Simulating Generic Supply Chain Designs

Wolfgang Kersten and Mayolo Alberto Lopez Castellanos, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany

LOGIS_10
Warehouse Design and Product Assignment and Allocation: a mathematical programming model

Carla A. S. Geraldes, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança and Maria Sameiro Carvalho and Guilherme A. B. Pereira, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

LOGISTICS ANALYSIS AND PROGNOSIS

LOGIS_01_AI
Application of New Techniques of Artificial Intelligence in Logistics: An Ontology-driven Case-based Reasoning Approach

Martin Kowalski, Stephan Zelewski and Daniel Bergenrodt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, and Hubert Klüpfel, TraffGo HAT GmbH, Duisburg, Germany

LOGIS_02_AI
Dynamic Scheduling in Logistics with Agent Based Simulation

Matthias Klumpp and Gregor Sandhaus, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

LOGIS_03
Logistics Performance Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

Andreas Berrisch and Matthias Klumpp, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

LOGIS_07
Transport Volume and Green Transport Modes Prognosis with GAMS

Sascha Bioly and Matthias Klumpp, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

LOGISTICS ROUTING

LOGIS_12
Integrating Consolidation Options in a New Conceptual Freight Transportation Framework

Tabitha Maes, Katrien Ramaekers, An Caris, Gerrit K. Janssens and Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

LOGIS_08
GAMS Modelling in Logistics Location and Routing Decisions

Victor Kuchshaus, Verena Gusik, Christina Westphal and Matthias Klumpp, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

VEHICLE ROUTING AND TRAFFIC

TOOLS_01
A New Cellular Automaton Approach for Simulations of Probabilistic Features of Vehicular Traffic

Boris S. Kerner, Daimler AG, Sindelfingen, Germany and Sergey L. Klenov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia and Gerhard Hermanns and Michael Schreckenberg, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

OPT_06
Vehicle Routing Planning and Simulation – A Hybrid Model for Observing System Performance

Sultan Ceren Salkın and Mahir Oner, Istanbul Technical University, Maçka Istanbul, Turkey

OPT_07
Modelling and Simulation of Train Positioning within the Railway Network

Jan Fikejz and Antonín Kavička, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

TERMINAL LOCATION SIMULATION

LOGIS_04
The Transport of Palletized Goods via the Inland Waterway - An Optimal Location Analysis and Simulation

Koen Mommens and Cathy Macharis, VUB, Brussels, Belgium

LOGIS_05
Optimizing LTL Terminal Performance by Simulation

Uwe Clausen, Peiman Dabidian, Daniel Diekmann, Ina Goedicke and Jan Kafka, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

LOGIS_06
Simulation of Transshipment Terminals in the Parcel Delivery Industry

Uwe Clausen and Daniel Diekmann, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

LOGIS_11
DEA Simulation in Logistics Tour and Location Planning – Two German Business Applications

Christina Westphal, Philipp Düppe and Matthias Klumpp, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany