ISC 2011, Industrial Simulation Conference, June 6-8, 2011, Centro Culturale Don Orione, Venice, Italy, Conference Committee


Conference Committee

General Conference Chair

Prof. Simonetta Balsamo, Universita Ca'Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy

General Program Chair

Andrea Marin, Universita Ca'Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Past Conference Chair

Dr. Lencse Gabor, Szechenyi Istvan University, Gyor, Hungary

Publications Chair

Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA

International Programme Committee

Discrete Simulation Methodology, Languages and Tools

Jon Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden .
Matthias Becker, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany .
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 .
Jan Lemeire, VUB, Brussels, Belgium .
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal .
Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universita  di Napoli. Naples, Italy .
Maria do Rosario 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, TU-Clausthal, Clausthal, Germany .
Antonella Zanzi, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Ispra Italy .

Ambient Intelligence and Simulation

Selwyn Piramuthu, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA .

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 Technol. Res. Centre, Mondragon-Arrasate, Spain .
Remy Dupas, Universite Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France .
Alexander Felfernig, University of Klagensfurt, Klagensfurt, Austria .
Michel Gourgand, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France .
Pouria Homayonifar, REC Scanwafer, Prosgrunn, Norway .
Imed Kacem, Université Paul Verlaine Metz, Metz, France
Habtom Mebrahtu, APU, Chelmsford, United Kingdom .
Carlo Meloni, Politecnico di Bari - DEE, Bari, Italy .
Pascal Meyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany .
Marina Valles, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Markus Vorderwinkler, PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr, Austria .
Roland Wischnewski, (RIF) e.V., Dortmund, Germany

Simulation in Steel Manufacturing

Brian Hollocks, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom .

Simulation in Automotive Systems

Track Chair: Steffen Strassburger, Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland .
Julien Richert, Daimler AG, GR/PAA, Sindelfingen, Böblingen, Germany
Rob Walker, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom .

Simulation in Robotics

Leopoldo Arnesto Angel, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
A. Chatzinikolaou, Athens, Greece .
Andrzej Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland .
Markus Koch, Orga Systems GmbH, Paderborn, Germany .
George L.Kovacs, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary .
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 .
Sergiu-Dan Stan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania .

Simulation in Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications

Teresa Alvarez, University of Valladolid, Valladolid Spain
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Patras, Greece .
Boguslaw Butrylo, Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland .
Tom Dhaene, Ghent University, INTEC, Ghent, Belgium .
Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
Domenico Giunta, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands .
Paulo Maciel, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil .
Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy .
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

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 Computer Science

Paul Chung, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom .
Lipika Deka, Tezpur University and IIT Guwahati, India .
Ernst Kesseler, NLR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Kreutzer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Simulation in Logistics, Transport and Harbour Simulation

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium .
Christian Almeder, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria .
Isabel Garcia Guttierez, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain .
Martin Grunow, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark .
Thomas Hanne, Univ. of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland .
Dmitry Ivanov, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
Peter Lawrence, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia .
Marie-Ange Manier, UTBM, Belfort, France .
Herve Manier, UTBM, Belfort, France
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland .
Jaap Ottjes, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands .
Cyril Ray, Ecole Navale, Brest, France .
Roberto Razzoli, University of Genova, Genova, Italy .
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: Giorgio Romanin-Jacur, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy .
Antonio Abelha, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal .
Joel Colloc, Universite du Havre, Le Havre, France .
Jose Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal .
Peter Summons, University of Newcastle, Australia .

Complex Systems Modelling

Track Chair: Igor N Litvine, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Frantisek Capkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic .
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest, France .
Gabriella Dellino, University of Siena, Siena, Italy .
Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom .
Krzysztof Fujarewicz, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland .
Laszlo Gulyas, AITIA International Inc., Budapest, Hungary .
Eugene Kindler, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic .
Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS, Toulouse, France .
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic .
Miguel Rocha, University do Minho, Braga, Portugal .
Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Madrid, Spain .

Simulation in Aerospace

Reza Azadegan, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran .
Wolfgang Kuehn, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany .
Martin Spieck, DLR, Goettingen, Germany .

Marine Simulation

TBA

Simulation in Industrial Design and Product Design

Sergio Baragetti, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy
Chiara Catalano, IMATI-CNR, Genoa, Italy .
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA .
Jorge Perez Mateos, AOS, 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 .
Jan Studzinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland .
Joao Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal .
Yiannis Ventikos, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom .
Henk Versteeg, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom .

Civil and Building Engineering

Alistair Borthwick, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom .
Graham Saunders, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom .

Simulation in Energy and Power Systems

Saleh Al-Jufout, Tafila Technical University. Tafila, Jordan
Jean-Frederic Charpentier, Ecole Navale, Brest, France .
Manuel Cordeiro, CETAV/UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal .
Janos-Sebestyen Janosy, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary .

Simulation in Multibody Systems

Track Chair: Bernd Schaefer, DLR, Wessling, Germany .
Ignacio Garcia-Fernandez, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain .
Jose Diaz Lopez, Anoto AB, Lund, Sweden .

Simulation in Chemical, Petroleum and Mining Engineering

Rene Banares-Alcantara, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom .
Diganta Das, Loughborough University, Loughborough, 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 .
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 .
Fabrizio Lamberti, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy .
Sudhir Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada .
Marcos A.Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom .

Verification, Validation and Accreditation

Mokhtar Beldjehem, University of Halifax, Canada .
Roberto Revetria, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy .
Agustin Yague, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain .

Simulation and Training

Manuel Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain .
Wenji Mao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China .
Eshan Rajabally, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom .
Gerhard Schreck, Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany .

Workshops

Workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems

Track Chair: Anna Syberfeldt, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
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, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria .
Yong K. Kim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, 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

Track Chair:Leif Pehrsson, Volvo Car Corporation, Skovde, Sweden
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium .
Hendrik Van Landeghem, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium .

Simulation Optimization in Industry

Amos H.C. Ng, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
Anna Syberfeldt, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden