ESM'2007, October 22-24, 2007, Westin Dragonara Hotel, St.Julian's, Malta, Conference Committee

ESM Conference Committee

General Conference Chair
Jaroslav Sklenar, University of Malta, Malta
General Conference Co-Chair
Alain Tanguy,Universite Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France
Past Conference Chairs
Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS, Toulouse, France
Mario Paludetto, LAAS, Toulouse, France
Journal Publication Chair
Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Local Programme Committee
John Abela, Department of Computer Science and AI, UOM
Natalie Attard, Department of Statistics & OR, UOM
Monique Inguanez, Department of Statistics & OR, UOM
Adrian Muscat, Department of Communications and Computer Engeneering, UOM
Zdenka Sant, Department of Mechanical Engeneering, UOM
Tony Spiteri Staines, Department of Computer Information Systems, UOM
Fiona Sammut, Department of Statistics & OR, UOM
Charles Sammut, Department of Physics, UOM
David Suda, Department of Statistics & OR, UOM

International Programme Committee

Methodology and Tools
Pierre l'Ecuyer, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Michel Gourgand, Universite Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France
Thomas Hanne, Fraunhofer -ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Celso Hirata, Inst. Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Campos, Brazil
Bjorn Johansson, Chalmers Univ. of Techn, Gotheburg, Sweden
Abder Koukam, Univ.de Technologie de Belfort, Belfort, France
Moreno Marzolla, Universita di Venezia, Mestre, Italy
Carlos E. Pereira, Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Eric Ramat, LIL, Calais, France
Roberto Revetria, University of Genova, Italy
M. del Puerto Paulo Ruiz, Univesidad de Valladolid, Spain
Bert van Beek, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Abdou Zakari, LITA, Universite de Metz, France
Object-Orientation and Re-Use
Frederic Mallet, University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France
Simulation and Artificial Intelligence
Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
Helder Coelho, Fac Ciencias, Lisbon, Portugal
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Guimareas, Portugal
Charbel Fares, ESIEE, Noisy-le-Grand, France
Adina Magda Florea, Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Adam Galuszka, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland
Martin Hruby, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Vladimir Janousek, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Esko Juuso, University of Oulu, Finland
Bernd Kleinjohann, University of Paderborn, Germany
Jose Neves, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Tudor Niculiu, Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Wolfgang Kreutzer, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Damien Olivier, Universite du Havre, France
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Eshan Rajabally, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Leon Rothkrantz, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Acad.of Science, Warsaw, Poland
Sarawut Suijtjorn, Suranaree Univ.of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Frantisek Zboril, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Morched Zeghal, Nat. Res.Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada
High Performance Large Scale and Hybrid Computing
Track Chair: Beniamino di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Jan Broeckhove, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Giancarlo Fortino, Universita della Calabria, Rende, Italy
Mohammad Riaz Moghal, Univ.of Engineering and Technology, Mirpur, Pakistan
Jari Porras, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Simon See, Sun Microsystems Inc, Singapore
Pierre Siron, ONERA, Toulouse, France
Carl Tropper, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Behrouz Zarei, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Simulation in Education and Graphics Visualization
Ebad Banissi, South Bank University, London, United Kingdom
Antonella Carbonaro, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Carlos Luis dos Santos, Universite Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Penn State University, Evanston, USA
George Gyftodimos, University of Athens, Greece
Jan Lemeire, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Qingping Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Gerardo Silva, University of Santiago, Chile
Guilherme Luis Roehe Vaccaro, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Franz Wotawa, TU Graz, Austria
Simulation in Environment, Ecology, Biology and Medicine
Eduardo Ayesa, CEIT, San Sebastian, Spain
Cyrille Bertelle, LIH, Le Havre, France
Thierry Chaussalet, University of Westminster, London, UK
Charbel Fares, A2SI-ESIEE, Noisy le Grand, France
Brian S. McIntosh, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Vahid Nassehi, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Laurent Perochon, INRA, St Genes Champanelle, France
Cezary Orlowski, Technical University Gdansk, Poland
Tarik Ozkul, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Pierrick Tranouez, Labo Info du Havre, France
Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques
Ana M. Camacho, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Tom Dhaene, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Roland Haas, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, Bangalore, India
Clemens Heitzinger, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Francesco Moscato, Seconda Univ.of Naples, Aversa, Italy
Panajotis Katsaros, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Eva M. Rubio, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Bruno Tuffin, IRISA, Rennes, France
Sarawut Sujitjorn, Suranaree Univ. of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Web Based Simulation
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopion University of Athens, Greece
Manuel Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Ammar Al-Khani, VTT Processes, Espoo, Finland
Jose Barata, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lenin Lemus, UPV, Valencia, Spain
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Jose Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece
Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome I, Italy
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Vaclav Snasel, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Agent Based Simulation
Jian Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Jacinto A. Dávila, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
Marielle Delhom, Unviersite de Corse, Corti, France
Eric Gouarderes, UPPA, Pau, France
Frederic Guinand, Universite du Havre, France
Zisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jean-Luc Koning, INPG-ESISAR-LEIBNIZ, Grenoble, France
Peter Lawrence, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
Ioan Alfred Letia, TU Cluj Napoca, Romania
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Jan-Torsten Milde, FH Fulda, Germany
Lars Monch, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Isabel Praca, Ist. Superior do Porto, Portugal
Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Italy
Agosthino Rosa, Technical University Lisbon, Portugal
Xiaolan Xie, INRIA-LIGPM, Metz, France
Simulation with Petri Nets
Meziane Bennour, LIRRM, Montpellier, France
Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
Carmen Bobeanu, Ghent University, Belgium
Mauro Iacono, University of Naples II, Italy
Juan de Lara, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Hammid Demmou, LAAS CNRS, Toulouse, France
Olivier Grunder, UTBM, Belfort, France
Guenter Hommel, TU Berlin, Germany
Stefano Marrone, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Mario Paludetto, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Jean-Claude Pascal, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Ivo Vondrak, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Bond Graphs Simulation
Rui Esteves Araujo, DEEC-FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
Jesus Felez, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Aziz Naamane, DIAM-IUSPIM, Marseille, France
Manuel Rodrigues Quintas, FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
Andre Tavernier, BioSim, Brussels, Belgium
DEVS
Fabrice Bernardi, University of Corsica, Corte, France
Dirk Brade, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden
Adriano Carvalho, FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
Alexandre Muzy, Universite de Corse, Corti, France
Fernando Tricas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Armin Zimmerman, TU Berlin, Germany
Fluid Flow Simulation
Patrik Arlos, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Diganta Bhusan Das, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
H.A.Nour Eldin, University of Wuppertal, Germany
David Erman, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hai Xiang Lin, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Adrian Popescu, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIMULA
Henry Islo, Association of Simula Users
Rob Pooley, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Eugene Kindler, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Sklenar, University of Malta, Malta
Alain Tanguy, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
Complex Systems and Self-Organization Modelling
Track Chair: Cyrille Bertelle, LITIS, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Le Havre, France
Program Chairs: Duchamp G.H.E., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Kadri-Dahmani H., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
IPC:
Aziz-Alaoui M.A., Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Babkin E., Higher School of Economics (Nihzny Novgorod), Russia
Bennani Y., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Bertelle C., Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Michele Colajani, University of Modena, Italy
Cotsaftis M., LTME/ECE, Paris, France
Duchamp G.H.E., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Guinand F., Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Hadj Kacem H., Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisie
Iantovics B.L., Petru Maior University of Tg. Mures, Romania
Kadri-Dahmani H., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Obaidat M.S., Monmouth University, USA
Olivier D., Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Oqeili S., Al Balqa Applied University, Al Balqa, Jordan
Osmani A., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Ramos V., Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Sadoun B., Al Balqa Applied University, Al Balqa, Jordan
Toumazet F., Paris XIII University, Paris, France
Wang R., Massey University, Albany-Auckland, New Zealand
Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)
Chairs:
Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
Massimo Cossentino, ICAR/CNR and Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Juan Pavon, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain
IPC
Carol Bernon (France)
Aliaksandr Birukou (Italy)
Paul Davidson (Sweden)
Giuseppe Di Fatta (UK)
Salvatore Gaglio (Italy)
Stephane Galland (France)
Alfredo Garro (Italy)
Paolo Giorgini (Italy)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (France)
Vincent Hilaire (France)
Franziska Kluegl (Germany)
Abder Koukam (France)
Adolfo Lopez Paredes (Spain)
Vito Morreale (Italy)
Andrea Omicini (Italy)
Wilma Russo (Italy)
Paolo Petta (Austria)
Erwan Tranvouez (France)
Giuseppe Vizzari (Italy)
Simulation in Electrical Systems
Maurice Apap, University of Malta, Malta
Cedric Caruana, University of Malta, Malta
Simon Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
Cyril Spiteri Staines, University of Malta, Malta