ISC'2015, 13th Annual Industrial Simulation Conference, June 1-3, 2015, UPV, Valencia, Spain, Conference Committee

Conference Committee

General Conference Chair

Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, UPV, Valencia, Spain

Local Programme Committee

Benjamin Molina, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Vicent Pla, Polytechnic University, Valencia, Spain

Past Conference Chairs

Amos Ng, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
Leif Pehrsson, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
Anna Syberfeldt, University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden

Publications Chair

Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Peter Lawrence, Swinburne University, Australia

International Programme Committee

Discrete Simulation Methodology, Languages and Tools

Matthias Becker, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany .
Helge Hagenauer, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria .
Sophie Hennequin, ENIM, Metz Cedex, France
Bjorn Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden .
Sarka Kvetonova, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic .
Erik Lindskog, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universita  di Napoli. Naples, Italy .
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal .
Jiri Safarik, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic .
Antonella Zanzi, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy

Ambient Intelligence and Simulation

Selwyn Piramuthu, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA .

Simulation in Manufacturing

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 .
Frank Heinze, (RIF) e.V., Dortmund, Germany
Pouria Homayonifar, Acona Flow Technology, Skien, Norway
Imed Kacem, Université Paul Verlaine Metz, Metz, France
Carlo Meloni, Politecnico di Bari - DEE, Bari, Italy .
Pascal Meyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany .
José A V Oliveira, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Marina Valles, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Markus Vorderwinkler, PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr, Austria .
Roland Wischnewski, (RIF) e.V., Dortmund, Germany
Farouk Yalaoui, Universite de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes Cedex, France

Simulation in Steel Manufacturing

Brian Hollocks, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom .

Simulation in Automotive Systems

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 .
Martin Mellado, UPV, Valencia, Spain .
Bogdan Raducanu, Computer Vision Centre, UAB, Barcelona, Spain .
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
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
Gerald Weigert, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Simulation of Complex Multiprocessor Systems

Orhan Gemikonakli, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

Simulation in Computer Science

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, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Maria Sameiro Carvalho, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
Isabel Garcia Guttierez, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain .
Peter Lawrence, Swinburne University, Lilydale, Australia .
Marie-Ange Manier, UTBM, Belfort, France .
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland .
Guilherme A B Pereira, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Roberto Razzoli, University of Genova, Genova, Italy .
Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal .
Hans Veeke, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands .
Pengjun Zheng, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom .

Simulation in the aviation sector

Gabriel Lodewijks, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Urban Simulation

TBA

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
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

Apparel and Textile Simulation

Track Chair: Jocelyn Bellemare, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Montréal (Québec) Canada
Serge Carrier, Ecole Superieure de mode de Montréal ESG/UQAM, Montréal (Québec) Canada
Marie-Ève Faust, Ecole Superieure de mode de Montréal ESG/UQAM, Montréal (Québec) Canada
Stephan Lomov, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium
Pablo Diaz Garcia, Escola Politècnica Superior de Alcoy (EPSA), UPV, Alcoy, Spain

Simulation in Aerospace

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

Marine Simulation

Sergeij Kalashnkikow, DANFOSS, Austria

Simulation in Industrial Design and Product Design

Chiara Catalano, IMATI-CNR, Genoa, Italy .
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA .
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 .
Henk Versteeg, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom .

Model Driven Engineering

TBA

Civil and Building Engineering

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

Simulation in Energy and Power Systems

Sérgio Leitão, CETAV/UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal .
Sergeij Kalashnkikow, DANFOSS, Austria
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
Pouria Homayonifar, Acona Flow Technology, Skien, Norway
Kamel Khudaida, 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 .
Anders Hast, University of Gavle, Gavle, Sweden .
Fabrizio Lamberti, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy .
Christoph Laroque, University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau, Germany
Sudhir Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada .
Marta Pla-Castells, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Marcos A.Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom .

Simulation of Complex Multiprocessor Systems

Peter Kvasnica, Alexander Dubcek University of Trencin, Trencin, Slovakia

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

Simulation-based evaluation in Living Labs

Stefan Hellfeld, FZI - House of Living Labs, Karlsruhe, Germany
Benjamin Herd, King's College, London, United Kingdom

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, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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-based Optimization in Industry

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

OPENSIM

Philippe Geril, ETI Bvba, Ostend, Belgium

HORIZON2020

Valerian Croitorescu, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania