SIMEX'2013, September 18-20, 2013, The Hotel, Brussels, Belgium, Preliminary Programme


Preliminary Programme

Session Timing

September 18

08.30-15.30 Registration
09.00-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.00 Keynote Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.00 Session
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Invited Speaker
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-17.30 Tutorial
17.30-18.00 The SIM Project
20.00-23.00 Conference Dinner

September 19

08.30-15.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 Invited Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.00 Session
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Invited Speaker (TBA)
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-17.30 Tutorial
17.30-17.45 Closing Session and Best Paper Award

Keynote Speech

Why Simulation is Important: An Engineer's Perspective
Chris Koh, Ph.D., Director, PepsiCo Global R&D Fellow, PepsiCo Advanced Research
PepsiCo, Inc., Plano, USA

Invited Speeches

An Easy to Learn System for Simulation of Business Problems
Ingolf Ståhl, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

Commercial Simulation Software for Modeling and Analysis of Vehicle Powertrain Systems
Valerian Croitorescu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania and Jan Anthonis and Stijn de Bruyne, LMS International, Leuven, Belgium

Sessions

ACADEMIC TOOLS

UNI_01
Soft Computing for the Analysis of Complex Problems

Christina Klüver and Jürgen Klüver, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

UNI_02
A New Approach to 3D Simulation Technology as Enabling Technology for eRobotics

Jürgen Rossmann, Michael Schluse, Christian Schlette, Ralf Waspe, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

UNI_03
Estimating Project Risks’ Probability with Limited Statistical Data

Vrassidas Leopoulos, Michael Douloumpekis, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos and Elena Rokou, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

COMMERCIAL TOOLS

COM_01
Multi-Method Modeling

Andrei Borshchev, The AnyLogic Company, St.Petersburg, Russia

COM_03
Human-and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator for Studying Vehicle Longitudinal Dynamics

Ionuț Stoica, Marius Bataus and Valerian Croitorescu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

COM_05
Simulation with ARENA of Two-Machine Flowshop Scheduling Using Modified Johnson Rule

Fawaz Abdulmalek, University of Kuwait, Kuwait

SIMULATION PROBLEM SOLVING

Introduction to FLEXSIM
Kurt De Cock, Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

aGPSS
Ingolf Ståhl, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

Participants to the Simulation Problem solving sessions, will need to download
the required software before the event from weblinks that will be announced the week before the event. It is also advisable to bring your own laptop to these sessions.

THE SIM PROJECT

The SIM Project
Philippe Geril, EUROSIS, Ostend, Belgium