Committee

General Conference Chairs

  • Prof dr. Veronique Limère, Ghent University, Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, Ghent, Belgium
  • Prof. dr. Dieter Claeys, Ghent University, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design, Zwijnaarde (Gent) Belgium

General Program Chair
tba

Past Conference Chair

  • Paulo J.S. Gonçalves, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco and IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Journal Publication Chairs

  • Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
  • Peter Lawrence, Swinburne University, Australia
  • Wan Ahmad Yusmawiza Wan Yusoff, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ESM Conference Chair

  • António Carvalho Brito, FEUP - University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

International Programme Committee

Methodology and Tools

  • Claudia Krull, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  • J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Object-Orientation and Re-Use

TBA

Discrete Simulation Modeling Techniques and Tools

    Track Chair
  • Renato Natal Jorge, FEUP - University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  • Helge Hagenauer, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
  • Sophie Hennequin, ENIM, Metz Cedex, France
  • Nuno Melão, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

Queueing Models

  • Ahmad Al Hanbali, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  • Esa Hyytiä, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Ioannis Dimitriou, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
  • Jan-Pieter Dorsman, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Stijn De Vuyst, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Simulation and Artificial Intelligence

  • Helder Coelho, Fac Ciencias, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Guimareas, Portugal
  • Martin Hruby, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Vladimir Janousek, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Kifaya Qaddoum, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi
  • Leon Rothkrantz, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Agent Based Simulation

  • Zisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Ioan Alfred Letia, TU Cluj Napoca, Romania
  • Isabel Praca, Ist. Superior do Porto, Portugal

Simulation and Optimization

  • José António Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
  • Janos-Sebestyen Janosy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

High Performance Large Scale and Hybrid Computing

  • Jan Broeckhove, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Pierre Siron, ONERA, Toulouse, France
  • Jingjing Wang, SUNY Binghamton University, New York, USA

Simulation in Education and Graphics/Data Visualization Techniques

  • Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Ranjit Singh, UB Patient Safety Research Center, University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY USA

Simulation in Environment, Ecology, Biology and Medicine

  • Joel Colloc, CNRS 6266 IDEES Le Havre, Normandy University, Le Havre, France
  • Laurent Perochon, VetaGro-Sup, Lempdes, France
  • Filipe Pinto, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques

  • Ana M. Camacho, UNED, Madrid, Spain
  • Clemens Heitzinger, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Web and Cloud Based Simulation

  • Manuel Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Ammar Al-Khani, Nordphysics, Espoo, Finland
  • Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
  • Jose Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
  • Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece
  • Vaclav Snasel, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Physics modelling and Cosmological Simulation

    Track Chair
  • José Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  • Philippe Geril, ETI Bvba, Ostend, Belgium

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

Renewable Energy Technologies

TBA

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
  • Bernhard Heinzl, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • Jan Studzinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • Joao Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Simulation in Model Driven Engineering

  • Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

Simulation-based evaluation of interactive systems

TBA

Simulation and Modelling for humanitarian/emergency operations

  • Hella Abidi, ild Institute for Logistics and Service Management at FOM, Essen, Germany

Supply Chain Simulation

  • Matthias Klumpp, ild Institute for Logistics and Service Management at FOM, Essen, Germany

Predictive Models in Software Engineering

TBA

Intelligent Systems

  • Ying He, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
  • José Machado, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
  • Manuel Filipe Santos, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

Real-time GPS Simulation and Service Applications

  • Matthias Klumpp, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

Simulation with Petri Nets

    Track Chair
  • Francois Siewe, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

  • Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
  • Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy
  • Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Bond Graphs Simulation

  • Jesus Felez, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Andre Tavernier, BioSim, Brussels, Belgium

DEVS

  • Fernando Tricas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Fluid Flow Simulation

  • H.A.Nour Eldin, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Emergency Risk Management Simulation

  • Véronique Baudin, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  • Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, University of South Australia, Australia
  • Gurdev Singh, UB Patient Safety Research Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY USA
  • Lode Vermeersch, Delcredere, Brussels, Belgium