Preliminary Programme - 31st annual ESM'2017, October 25-27, 2017, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

Dear Colleague,

Please find hereafter the preliminary programme
for the 31ST annual European Simulation and
Modelling Conference - ESM'2017, which will be held
at IST, Lisbon, Portugal from October 25-27, 2017.

Conference link with extra info is on:
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/386

The online registration form is linked on:
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3683

Beware the general timing below is advisory
and can undergo minor changes in the final programme.

Regards
Philippe

Session Timing

October 25
O8.00-17.00 Registration
O8.45-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.00 Keynote Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Sessions
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 Sessions/Tutorial
18.00-20.00 TBA

October 26
O8.30-17.00 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Keynote Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Sessions
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-18.30 Sessions/Tutorial
20.00-23.00 Conference Dinner

October 27
08.30-09.00 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Sessions/Keynote Speaker
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-12.45 Closing Session and Best Paper Award

Keynotes

Modeling and simulation of the multidisciplinary processes with AMESim
Nicolae Vasiliu and Daniela Vasiliu, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

A Fuzzy Vectorial Space That avoids to Defuzzify the Membership Functions
Joël Colloc, Université of Le Havre, Normandie University, Le Havre, France

VR, AR, MR simulations and inspirations from Iron Man 3
Helena Barbas, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas,, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Tutorial

Actor-Based Methods, Concepts and Tools for Simulation
Tony Clark, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, Vinay Kulkarni, Souvik Barat, Tata Consultancy Services Research, India and Balbir Barn, Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Sessions

SIMULATION METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS

METH_17
A Timed Extended Reachability Graph for the simulation and analysis of bounded TPNs

Dimitri Lefebvre, Normandie University, UNIHAVRE, Le Havre, France

TOOLS_09
Visual Estimation of Persistence in Time Series

Sihle Poswayo and Igor Litvine, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

AI_01
Confidence-Rated Prediction of Future Response Time of a Filer

Kumar Dheenadayalan, International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore, India

TOOLS_01_AGENT
Study and Comparison of Four Agent-Based Simulation Tools (Repast, SeSAm, Netlogo and GAMA) to build Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems

Wafa Mefteh, MRACL laboratory, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

METH_11_MC
Looking for and finding Lost Data

William Conley, Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, U.S.A.

METH_13_MC
Performance measures of M/G/1 retrial queues with Erlang and Pareto service times

Kenza Tamiti; Megdouda Ourbih-Tara, Khelidja Idjis, Universite de Bejaia, Bejaia and Abdelouhab Aloui, Centre Universitaire Morsli Abdellah de Tipaza, Tipaza, Algeria

METH_15_MC
Asymptotic Comparison of sampling Methods in Monte Carlo Simulation

Leila Baiche and Megdouda Ourbih-Tari, Universite de Bejaia, Bejaia, and Centre Universitaire Morsli Abdellah de Tipaza, Tipaza, Algeria

RAND_01-MC
Efficient Quantile Estimation via a Combination of Importance Sampling and Latin Hypercube Sampling

Marvin K. Nakayama, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA

OPT_10
Statistical Optimization Applied to a Variety of Non-Linear Systems of Equations

William Conley, Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, U.S.A.

GRAPHIC DATA SIMULATION

PAR_02
Multi-Master Replication in Eventually Consistent Simulation Grids

Stefan Elsen, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

TOOLS_13
Visualising of Co-occurrence Data

Igor Litvine and Oksana Ryabchenko, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

METH_02
Performance Comparison of Adapted Delaunay Triangulation Method over Nurbs for Surface Optimization Problems

Suyesh Bhattarai, Parag Vichare and Keshav Dahal, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom

METH_14
Automatic generation of a Diagnostic and Control Unit (DCU) for controlling embedded system application at Run Time. Case Study: HEVC Decoder

Habib Smei, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, and Institut Supérieur des Etudes Technologiques de Rades, Rades, and Abderrazak Jemai, Université de Tunis El Manar, and Université de Carthage, INSAT, Tunis, and Kamel Smiri, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, and Université de Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia

GRAPH_01
3D Filtering Color Image contaminated by mixed Noise using Sparse Representation

Alfredo Palacios-Enriquez and Volodymyr Ponomaryov, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, San Fco Culhuacan, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico

ENV_01_METH
Enhancing the Accuracy of Raster Based Algorithms for Forest Fire Spread Modelling

Yves Dumond, Laboratoire LISTIC, Universite Savoie Mont Blanc, Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex, France

FINANCIAL SIMULATION

METH_08_MC_FIN
Analysis of Relationship between Risk and (expected) Return of the Investment (Portfolio) – Simulation and Optimization Experiment on the Prague Stock Exchange

Adam Borovička, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

RAND_03_FIN
Optimal Dating of Cycles in Financial Time Series

Konrad Kapp and Igor Litvine, COEF, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

RISK_01
Mining Patterns in Financial Time Series using Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm

Kristina Šutienė, Audrius Kabašinskas and Eimutis Valakevičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania and Roland Reichardt, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

DECISION MANAGEMENT SIMULATION

TOOLS_03
Generating Synthetic Individual Human Population and Activity Models

Emily Schmidt and Dhananjai M. Rao, Miami University, Oxford, USA

METH_05
A Domain Specific Language for Complex Dynamic Decision Making

Souvik Barat and Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune, India, Tony Clark, Sheffield Hallam University, and Balbir Barn, Middlesex University, United Kingdom

TOOLS_02
Support for Management Processes of the Exercises of the Crisis Staffs of critical Infrastructure Entities

Jiří Barta, University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic

DISC_07_COMP
A co-simulation framework interoperability for Neo-campus project

Yassine Motie, Alexandre Nketsa LAAS-CNRS /IRIT, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

AI_11
New Generic AI-Based Adaptive Control System: A Clustering Rules Strategy

Walid Bouzayen, Carthage University, and FST, Tunis el Manar University, Hamza Gharsellaoui, Carthage University, Tunisia; and Al Jouf College of Technology, KSA and Mohamed Khalgui, Carthage University, Tunisia; and Jinan University, and Xidian University, China

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

OPT_06
Scheduling for Multi-Chip Package (MCP) Manufacturing in Semiconductor Back-end

Young H. Jeong, Kang H. Cho, You I. Jeong, Sang C. Park, University of Ajou, Woncheon, Suwon, South Korea

PAR_05
Modular Hybrid Modeling Based on DEVS for Interdisciplinary Simulation of Production Systems

Bernhard Heinzl, Philipp Raich, Franz Preyser and Wolfgang Kastner, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology, and Peter Smolek and Ines Leobner, Institute for Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

PETRI_02
Simulation of a Flexible and Demographic Sensitive One-Piece-Flow Assembly Line Based on a Process Flow of Colored and Timed Petri Nets

Benedikt A. Latos, Peyman Kalantar, Philipp M. Przybysz AND Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner, Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen and Christoph Holtkötter and Jan Brinkjans, Miele & Cie. KG, Gütersloh, Germany

DISC_01
Production Process Evaluation and Improvement by using Method of Discrete Event Simulation

Tolga Kudret Karaca and Volkan Cakir, Istanbul Arel University, Istanbul, Turkey

DISC_03
A Simulation Based Evaluation of Dynamic Task Prioritization in Maintenance Management

Dietmar Neubacher, Nikolaus Furian, Clemens Gutschi, Tobias Elmer and Siegfried Vossner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION

TRANS_04
Modelling and Simulation for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation

Florina Livia Covaci, Business Information Systems Department, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

TRANS_06_LOGIS
Towards Quantitative Risk evaluation for Supply Chains in Preparation of a Simulation Study

Birgit Mosl, Dietmar Neubacher, Nikolaus Furian and Siegfried Vossner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION

METH_09_LOGIS
The Concept of Semi-Variance as a Tool for Safety Inventory Decisions in Case of Uncertain Demand

Katrien Ramaekers and Gerrit K. Janssens, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium and Galina Merkuryeva, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

AGENT_04
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Disruption Management in Inventory System

Maroua Kessentini and Narjes Bellamine Ben Saoud, Univ. Manouba, ENSI and Sami Sboui, SQLI Services, Technopole Manouba, Tunisia

TOOLS_10
Mass Customization Dynamics Simulation for Fashion and Apparel Market

Jocelyn Bellemare, School of Business and Management, ESG, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Montréal (Québec), Canada

OPT_03
Simulation Optimization: A Simple Approach combining Metaheuristics and Metamodels

Luiz Ricardo Pinto, Júlia Cobucci Morais, Gabriela Martins Nunes and João Flavio de Freitas Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

LOGISTICS SIMULATION

DISC_05_LOGIS
Simulation of Logistics for Construction Management

Nikolaus Furian, Dietmar Neubacher and Siegfried Vossner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria and Philip Santner, Michael O'Sullivan and Cameron Walker, University of Auckland, New Zealand

AGENT_06
Cooperative Decision Making Modeling in Transportation Logistics Dispatching System

Anton Ivaschenko, Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia, Ilya Syusin, Magenta Technology, London, United Kingdom and Pavel Sitnikov, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

OPT_01
Brief Introduction and Simulation of Bi-directional Resource-Utilization-Oriented Flexible Service Strategy for Return Logistics Network

Di Zhang and Uwe Clausen, Institut für Transportlogistik, Dortmund, Germany

TRANS_01
Evaluation in Transport Planning: A Comparison between Data Envelopment Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Making Methods

Giuseppe Musolino, Corrado Rindone and Antonino Vitetta, DIIES, Università degli studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

TRAFFIC SIMULATION

TOOLS_12
Evaluation of Car-following-Models at controlled intersections

Laura Bieker-Walz, Michael Behrisch, Marek Junghans, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany

TRAF_01
A Stochastic Driver Distraction Model for Microscopic Traffic Simulations

Manuel Lindorfer, Christian Backfrieder and Gerald Ostermayer, Research Group Networks and Mobility, FH Upper Austria, and Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker, Christian Doppler Lab, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

PRED_01
Utilisation of Computer Simulation for dynamic Calculation of Train Delays

Jan Fikejz and Josef Brožek, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

OPT_02
Hybrid Optimizing Models for Planning Charging Infrastructures

Hubert Büchter, Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, Dortmund and Sebastian Naumann, ifak - Institut f. Automation und Kommunikation e.V., Magdeburg, Germany

SENSOR NETWORK SIMULATION

METH_06
Modeling of Testing Scenario through Modularisation of Speed Sensor

Dong K.Kim and S.C Park, University of Ajou, Woncheon, Suwon, South Korea

METH_16
Simulation of Optimized Nonlinear Frequency Modulation in Pulse Compression Radar

Jiří Roleček and Pavel Bezoušek, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

METH_19
An Open Architecture Framework for the Electronic Warfare Modeling & Simulation

Sang Yeong Choi, School of Defense Science, Hansung University, Myongji University and Hyeon Seo Kang, Hyeong Jun Kyeon, Suk Jun Yoon, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sejong University, South-Korea

TOOLS_04
On the Effects of the Variations in Network Characteristics in Cyber Physical Systems

Geza Szabo and Sandor Racz, Ericsson Research, and Jozsef Peto, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary and Rafael Roque Aschoff, Pernambuco Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology, Brazil

OPT_08
Identifying the Optimal Transmission Range in Depth Based Routing for UWSN

Mohsin Jafri, Simonetta Balsamo and Andrea Marin, DAIS, Università Ca' Fosari Venice, Italy

ANMT_02
Modelling of Energy Efficient Multi-hop Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Manel Souissi and Aref Meddeb, NOCCS Laboratory, Engineering School of Sousse
University of Sousse, Tunisia

OPT_12
Modelling and Optimization of Energy Saving Clustering over Duty Cycled Wireless Sensor Network

Manel Souissi and Aref Meddeb, NOCCS Laboratory, Engineering School of Sousse, University of Sousse, Tunisia

ELECTRONICS SIMULATION

TOOLS_08
Dynamic Switching of Processor Simulation Model Accuracy

Johannes Kohl and Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen and Jürgen Bäsig, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

PETRI_01
A new Method to transform Petri Nets to Digital Circuits using Input Driven reachability Graphs

Christoph Brandau and Dietmar Tutsch, School of Electrical, Information and Media Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

FLUID SYSTEMS SIMULATION

METH_03_MC
Monte Carlo Simulation of Daily Precipitation and River Flow Conditional Spatio-Temporal Fields

Nina A. Kargapolova, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

AI_15_PRED
A Fuzzy Approach to Forecasting Water Production in Urban Water System

Marcin Stachura, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

BIO_10
Forecast of selected Quality Indicators of Wastewater flowing to the Treatment Plant using selected Black-Box Methods

Bartosz Szeląg and Krzysztof Barbusiński, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, and Agnieszka Operacz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice and Jan Studziński, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

ENERGY FORECASTING AND OPTIMIZATION

AI_05
Neural Networks Models and Electricity Demand Forecasting

Francis Bismans, BETA, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France and Igor N. Litvine, COEF, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South-Africa

OPT_05
Optimisation of Compressed Air System’s Energy usage through Discrete Event Simulation Compressor Performance

Robbie Mulvany, Alan Arokiam and Abdelhafid Belaidi, University of Greenwich , Chatham Maritime and John Ladbrook , Michael Higgins , Dunton Technical Centre , Ford Motor Company, United Kingdom

ENERG_01
Investigation of the Modelling Effects on the Steam Generators Behaviour during the early Stages of a SBO in a CANDU 6 Reactor

Roxana-Mihaela Nistor-Vlad, Daniel Dupleac and Ilie Prisecaru, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania and Chris Allison, Innovative Systems Software, Ammon, USA

AEROSPACE SIMULATION

PAR_01
Time Management of Heterogeneous Distributed Simulation

Clément Michel, Janette Cardoso and Pierre Siron, ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, Toulouse CEDEX 4, France

METH_01
Real-Time Simulation of Large Aircraft Fuel Systems

Stephen Wright, University of West of England and Alvery Grazebrook, Airbus Operations Ltd, Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom

AGENT_08_ANMT_01
An Evaluation Framework for UAV Surveillance Applications

Michael Ettlinger, Bilge Sarp, Christopher-Eyk Hrabia and Sahin Albayrak
Technische Universitt Berlin, DAI-Lab, Berlin, Germany

ENGINEERING SIMULATION

PAR_03
Applying the Model Driven Architecture Approach to Dynamic Structure Applications

Min Zhu, Clément Foucher, Vincent Albert, Alexandre Nketsa, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France

PAR_07
Modelling and Optimal Control with Energy Regeneration of a 6DOF Motion Platform with permanent Magnet Linear Actuators

E. Thöndel, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES

AI_08
Human Computer Interface for Communication and Automated Estimation of Basic Emotional States

Svetla Radeva, Strahil Sokolov and Dimitar Radev, University of Telecommunications and Post, Sofia, Bulgaria

GRAPH_03
Simulation-Based User Interfaces for Digital Twins Pre-, In-, or Post Operational Analysis and Exploration of Virtual Testbeds

Torben Cichon and Juergen Rossmann, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

GRAPH_04_AI
Affective Computing in Electronic Games: Influence of Emotional States in Player Performance

Letícia G. G. Ribeiro, Victor H. M. Pereira, Raphael C. Moura, Victor R. Costa, Alex F. V. Machado, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast of Minas Gerais, Rio Pomba – MG, Brazil

BIO_05
Surgery Assistant Based on Augmented Reality

Anton Ivaschenko, Samara National Research University and Alexandr Kolsanov, and Aikush Nazaryan, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

BIOLOGICAL DATA SIMULATION

AI_13
The controlled Development of (Medical) Self-Diagnosis Systems with Self-Enforcing Networks

Christina Klüver and Jürgen Klüver, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

BIO_09_WEB
Model of Modular IoT-based Bee-Keeping System

K. Dineva and T. Atanasova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

AGENT_01_BIO
The Effect of Sexual Networks on Fertility Levels

E. Mudimu, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

GRAPHICAL HUMAN BIO-ANALYSIS

BIO_03
Semi-automatic brain lesions detection and segmentation method in MR images

Carlos Segura Granados and Volodymyr Ponomaryov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico-city, Mexico

BIO_02
Transcription Initiation Controls Skewness of the Distribution of Intervals between RNA Productions

Vinodh K. Kandavalli, Sofia Startceva, and Andre S. Ribeiro, BioMediTech Institute and Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

SIMULATION IN HUMAN BIO-ANALYSIS

BIO_01
Simulation of circadian brain activity rhythms using probabilistic free energy and entropy model

Darius Plikynas, Mathematics and informatics institute at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

BIO_06
A Modeling Approach to Heart Failure Treatment

Alexander Lassnig, Christian Baumgartner and Jörg Schröttner, Institute of Health Care Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

BIO_08
Modeling Survival Times using Frailty Models

Liberato Camilleri, Roxanne Caruana and Alex Manche, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Malta, Msida, Malta