Committee

General Conference Chair

• José Machado Uminho, Braga, Portugal

General Program Chairs

• Luis Mendes Gomes UAzores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
• Hélia Guerra UAzores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
• AntÓnio Abelha UMinho, 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

Local Programme Committee

• Luis Mendes Gomes UAzores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
• Hélia Guerra UAzores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
• AntÓnio Abelha UMinho, Portugal

Past Conference Chairs

• Jan Owsinski Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• Jan Studzinski Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

International Programme Committee

Discrete Simulation Methodology, Languages and Tools

Discrete Simulation Methodology

• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Vincent Rodin European Centre for VR, Brest, France

Discrete Simulation Analysis

• Pascal Berruet Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France

Discrete Simulation Languages and Tools

• Matthias Becker University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
• Helge Hagenauer Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
• Bernhard Heinzl TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Sophie Hennequin ENIM, Metz Cedex, France
• Erik Lindskog Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Stefano Marrone Seconda Universita di Napoli. Naples, Italy
• Jiri Safarik University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic

Open Source Simulation Languages and Tools

• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Philippe Geril ETI Bvba, Ostend, Belgium

Verification, Validation and Accreditation

• Roberto Revetria University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
• Agustin Yague Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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

Artificial Intelligence, IOT and VR Graphics Applied to Industry

Ambient Intelligence and Simulation

• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Selwyn Piramuthu University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Artificial Intelligence

• Chrissanti Angeli Technological Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland

VR and Graphical Simulation in Industry

• Track Chair: Guodong Shao  NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
• Pascal Berruet Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Fabrizio Lamberti Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
• Christoph Laroque University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau, Germany
• Sudhir Mudur Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
• Paulo Moura Oliveira UTA University, Vila Real, Portugal
• Dorin-Mircea Popovici Universitatea OVIDIUS din Constanta, Constanta, Romania
• Marcos A.Rodrigues Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Augmented Reality and Pervasive Systems in Factories

• Alessandro Genco University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Eleni Mangina University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

Simulation-based evaluation of interactive systems

• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Stefan Hellfeld FZI - House of Living Labs, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Benjamin Herd King's College, London, United Kingdom

Simulation and Training

• Manuel Alfonseca Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Eleni Mangina University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland
• Wenji Mao Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
• Dorin-Mircea Popovici Universitatea OVIDIUS din Constanta, Constanta, Romania

Industrial Internet of Things

• Norbert Jastroch MET Communications GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland

e-Business in Collaborative Engineering

• Heiko Duin BIBA, Bremen, Germany
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Yo-Ping Huang Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Norbert Jastroch MET Communications GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany

Simulation in Nanotechnology

• Clemens Heitzinger Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Yong K. Kim University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, USA
• Javier Marin ETSI, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

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
• Alfonso Urquia UNED, Madrid, Spain

Simulation of Complex Multiprocessor Systems

• Orhan Gemikonakli Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

Simulation in Electronics, Computers and Telecommunications

• Teresa Alvarez University of Valladolid, Valladolid Spain
• Christos Bouras University of Patras, Patras, Greece
• Adnane Latif Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco
• 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
• Pedro Sousa University of Minho, Portugal

Simulation in Aerospace

• Reza Azadegan Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
• Wolfgang Kuehn University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

Marine Simulation

• Sergeij Kalashnkikow DANFOSS, Austria

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
• Joseph M. Saur Regent University, USA

Simulation in Civil and Building Engineering

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

Simulation in Chemical, Petroleum and Mining Engineering

• Pouria Homayonifar Acona Flow Technology, Skien, Norway
• Mohamad R. Riazi Kuwait University, Kuwait

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 Robotics

Servitization

• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Automation/Robotics

• Leopoldo Arnesto Angel UPV, Valencia, Spain
• A. Chatzinikolaou Athens, Greece
• Andrzej Dzielinski Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
• Houcine Hassan  Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
• Markus Koch Orga Systems GmbH, Paderborn, Germany
• George L.Kovacs Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• Martin Mellado UPV, Valencia, Spain
• Paulo Moura Oliveira UTA University, Vila Real, Portugal
• Bogdan Raducanu Computer Vision Centre, UAB, Barcelona, Spain
• Sergiu-Dan Stan Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Machine to Machine

• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Intelligent Connected Systems

• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Cyber Physical Systems Simulation

• Track Chair: Ioan Dumitrache The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
• Adina Magda Florea University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
• Pascal Berruet Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
• Cornel Burileanu University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
• Corneliu Bilan University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
• Eleni Mangina University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

Fog computing for Robotics and Industrial Automation

• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Simulation in Engineering

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
• Henk Versteeg Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Model Driven Engineering

• Norbert Jastroch MET Communications GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany
• Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

Simulation in Industrial and Product Design

• Chiara Catalano IMATI-CNR, Genoa, Italy
• Yan Luo NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
• Catarina Rizzi University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

Choice Modelling Methods and Applications

• Karim Labadi ECAM-EPMI, QUARTZ-Lab, France

Simulation in Multibody Systems

• Track Chair: Bernd Schaefer DLR, Wessling, Germany
• Ignacio Garcia-Fernandez University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Simulation in Collaborative Engineering

Organization and Management in Collaborative Engineering

• Eduardo Castellano IK4-IKERLAN, Mondragon-Arrasate, Spain
• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Iris Graessler Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany

Supporting Technologies

• Ricardo Gonçalves Univ. Nova de Lisboa, UNINOVA, Caparica, Portugal
• Sarka Kvetonova Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

Formal Methods, Techniques and Design

• Yan Luo NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
• Stefano Marrone Seconda Universita di Napoli, Caserta, Italy

Engineering of Embedded Systems

• Petr Hanacek Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
• Jose Machado University do Minho, Braga, Portugal
• Stefano Marrone Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy

Collaborative Engineering data management and information modeling

• Uwe Baake Daimler Buses, Evobus GmbH, Neu-Ulm, Germany
• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Joachim Herbst Daimler AG, Research and Technology, Ulm, Germany
• Jiri Vondrich Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

Collaborative Engineering process management and simulation

• Antonio Carvalho Brito FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Imed Kacem University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France
• Carlo Meloni Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
• Roberto Montemanni IDSIA, Manno, Switzerland
• Maurizio Palesi University of Catania, Catania, Italy
• Christian Andreas Schumann University of Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany

Collaborative environments for virtual teams

• Veronique Baudin LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France
• Khalil Drira LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France
• Paul Stratil SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG, Walldorf, Germany

Collaborative Enhanced Lean Manufacturing Simulation

• Jean-Claude Hochon AIRBUS, Blagnac, France
• Jose Antonio V. Oliveira University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
• Rik Van Landeghem Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
• Rob Walker Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Practical applications and experiences

• James Gao University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Irfan Manarvi Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Factory Planning and Control for SME's

• Sílvio do Carmo Silva University of Minho, Portugal
• Pascal Berruet Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
• Paulo J.S. Gonçalves Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Nuno O. Fernandes Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal
• Veronique Limere Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Data-Driven Tradespace Exploration and Analysis

• Philippe Geril ETI, Ostend, Belgium
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Peter K. K. Loh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Production of One: Digital Direct Manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing

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Smart Factory 1.0 and Industry 4.0

• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Norbert Jastroch MET Communications GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany
• Philippe Geril ETI, Ostend, Belgium

Simulation in Manufacturing

Steel Manufacturing and New Materials Manufacturing

• Brian Hollocks Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Simulation in Electronics Manufacturing

• Gerald Weigert Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Simulation Optimization in Manufacturing

• Bernhard Heinzl TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Karim Labadi ECAM-EPMI, QUARTZ-Lab, France
• Amos H.C. Ng University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
• Anna Syberfeldt University of Skovde, Skovde, Sweden

Apparel and Textile Manufacturing Simulation

• Track Chair: Jocelyn Bellemare University of Quebec in Montréal (UQAM), Montréeal (Québec) Canada
• Serge Carrier Ècole Superieure de mode de Montréal ESG/UQAM, Montréal (Québec) Canada
• Marie-Ève Faust Ècole 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 Logistics and Traffic

Simulation in Logistics

• El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
• Christian Almeder European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
• Maria Sameiro Carvalho University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
• Remy Dupas Université de Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France
• Olivier Grunder , UTBM, Belfort, France
• Isabel Garcia Guttierez Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Houcine Hassan  Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
• Karim Labadi ECAM-EPMI, QUARTZ-Lab, France
• Gabriel Lodewijks Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
• 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 Supply Chains

• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Matthias Klumpp ” ild Institute for Logistics and Service Management at FOM, Essen, Germany
• Eleni Mangina University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Simulation in Hospital Logistics

• Jose Antonio V. Oliveira University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Transport Simulation

• Jose Antonio V. Oliveira University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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

Harbour simulation

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Simulation in Traffic

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Urban Simulation

• Hans Degrauwe Degrauwe Consulting, Belgium

Datamining Business Processes, Geosimulation and Big Data

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining of Business Processes

• Paulo Alexandre Ribeiro Cortez University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Selwyn Piramithu University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
• Inna Pivkina New Mexico State University, USA
• Danny Van Welden KBC Bank, Brussels, Belgium

Applications using Data Mining

• Marco Furini Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland

Applications using data mining and open source text information mining and analysis

• Marco Furini Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Sang Do No Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Patient Centered Health Care with Meaningful Use of IT

• Sanaul Haque Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland
• Gurdev Singh State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA

Geosimulation and Big Data

• Marwan Al-Akaidi Arab Open University, Kuwait

Simulation in Economics and Business

Simulation Applied to Economics

• J. Manuel Feliz Teixeiro FEUP-University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
• Nuno Melo Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
• Leonid Novickis IDC Information Technologies, Riga, Latvia
• Kamelia Stefanova University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Agents in Business Automation and Economics

• Florina Covaci ”Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Martin Fredriksson Blekinge institute of technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
• Markus Koch Orga Systems GmbH, Paderborn, Germany
• Isabel Praca Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Simulation in Business and Economics

• Eduardo Castellano IK4-IKERLAN, Mondragon-Arrasate, Spain
• Sudhir Mudur Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
• Yan Luo NIST, Gaitherburg, USA

Simulation in Business Games

• Marco Furini Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Renate Sitte Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
• David Wortley Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Simulation and Analysis of Environmental effects of business

• Dietmar Boenke Hochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
• Elias A. Hadzilias Universite Catholique de Lille, Lille, France
• Roberto Razzoli University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Simulation in Economic and Risk Management

Simulation Tools for Business Management & Business Intelligence

• Carmen Bobeanu Ghent, Belgium
• Carlo Meloni Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Simulation in OR and Knowledge Management

• Carmen Bobeanu Ghent, Belgium
• Chrissanthi Angeli Technological Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
• Imed Kacem Université Paul Verlaine Metz, Metz, France
• Christophe Roche Universite de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac Cedex, France

Emergency Management and Risk Analysis Management

• Ismail Bouassida LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• Khalil Drira LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• Konstantinos Kirytopoulos University of the Aegean, Greece
• Gurdev Singh UB Patient Safety Research Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY USA
• Lode Vermeersch Delcredere, Brussels, Belgium

Predictive Simulation and Methodology for Futures Research

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Policy Modelling and Simulation in E-Management, E-Government, E-Commerce and E-Trade

• Vrassidas Leopoulos Nat. technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Political and Government Simulation

• Joseph M. Saur Regent University, USA

Sustainable Development Management

• Philippe Geril ETI Bvba, Ostend, Belgium

Workshops

HORIZON 2020 Workshop

• Valerian Croitorescu University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Simulation in Automotive Systems

• Track Chair: José Machado Uminho, Portugal
• AntÓnio Abelha UMinho, Portugal
• Naoufel Cheikhrouhou EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Valerian Croitorescu University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
• José António Oliveira University of Minho in Portugal
• Julien Richert Daimler AG, GR/PAA, Sindelfingen, Böblingen, Germany