MESM'2016, 16th Middle Eastern Simulation and Modelling Conference, March 21-23, 2016, AOU, Amman, Jordan, Conference Committee



UKRI-SPC

Conference Committee

Conference General Chair

Prof. Dr Marwan Al-Akaidi, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs, AOU, Kuwait

Local Chair

Prof. Dr Mohammed Abu Qudais, Branch Director, AOU, Jordan

Local Organizing Committee

Prof. Ashraf Hussein
Dr. Jehad Al-Saadi
Dr. Khalid Tahat
Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar
Dr. Basela Hassan
Dr. Hamayun Khan
Dr. Ahmed Fadlallah
Dr. Nouhad Amaneddine
Dr. Hussein AbdelJaber
Dr. Minimol Job
Dr. Sherimon P.C

International Programme Committee

Modelling Methodology and Optimization

Helge Hagenauer, Universitaet Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Brian Hollocks, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Bjoern Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden
Panajotis T. Katsaros, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Yan Luo, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
Dmitry Zaitsev, Odessa National Telecommunications Academy, Odessa, Ukraine

Modelling Tools, Development and Deployment

tba

Analysis Methodology and Systems Performance

Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, ENS des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Gardanne, France

Simulation of Secure Networks and Communications; Autonomic and Autonomous systems

Carlos Palau, UPV, Valencia, Spain

Electronics Simulation

TBA

Complex Systems Simulation

Marta Pla Castells, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Krzysztof Fujarewicz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Jan Studzinski, Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

Simulation of Digital Information and Image Processing

Renate Sitte, Griffith University, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Australia
Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Energy Systems Simulation

Musleh B. AL-Otaibi, Alahmadi, Kuwait
Janos Sebestyen Janosy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary
Patrick Waeger, EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Simulation in the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry

Ammar Al Khani, Espoo, Finland
Diganta Bhusan Das, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Eugenio Ferreira, Universidade do Minho, Braga Portugal
Mohammad Al-Nawafleh, Tafila Applied University College, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Tafila, Jordan
Cornel Resteanu, Research Institute of Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
M R Riazi, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Multimedia; Virtual Reality Systems and Knowledge Virtualization

Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Rion, Patras, Greece
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Kvasnica, Alexander Dubcek University of Trencin, Trencin, Slovak Republic
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Decision Processing in Management and Knowledge Data Systems

Hadhoum Boukachour, Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Joel Colloc, Le Havre University, Le Havre, France
Jeanne Schreurs, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Christine Sybord, Lyon 2 Lumiere University, Lyon, France
Behrouz Zarei, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Image/Speech Processing

TBA

Wireless/Mobile Communications

tba

Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Systems and Biotechnology

Manuel Alfonseca, Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Igor Kvasnica, Regional Department for Environmental Issues of Trencin, Trencin, Slovak Republic
Tomislav Pribanic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Modelling and Simulation for Industrial Applications and Systems

Luis Felipe Acebes Arconada, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient cedex, France
A. Chatzinikolaou, Bosch Rexroth SA, Athens, Greece
Olaf Diegel, Massey University, Albany Campus, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Sergej Kalaschnikow, VA TECH ELIN EBG Elektronik GmbH & Co, Vienna, Austria
Markus Koch, C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany
Habtom Mebrahtu, Anglia Polytechnica University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Pascal Meyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lars Moench, TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Carlos E. Pereira, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Caterina Rizzi, Universita degli Studi di Bergama, Dalmine, Italy
Amir Shirkhodaie, Tennessee State University, Nashville, USA
Hans Veeke, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Ramiro Velazquez, Universite Paris 6 - CNRS, Fontenay aux Roses, France
Joao de Silva Wellington, UFPE, Recife, Brazil

Simulation in Logistics, Traffic, Transport and Harbour Simulation

Isabel Garcia Gutierrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain
Daniel Krajzewicz, GermanAerospace Centre, Berlin, Germany
Herve Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France

Web Based Information Simulation

Nouhad Amaneddine, AOU, Beirut, Lebanon
Jorge Marx Gomez, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Madrid, Spain

Simulation in Information Processing and Software Development

Ismail Bouassida Rodriguez, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 04, France
Jean-Claude Hochon, GFI Consulting, Toulouse, France
Peter Lawrence, Deakin University, Bentleigh, Australia
Azeddien Sllame, Tripoli University, Libya

Computational Cognition and Distance Learning

TBA

Intelligent Agent Based Simulation

TBA

Evolutionary Computation, Simulation in Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms

Track Chair: Kifaya Qaddoum, Amman, Jordan
Chrissanthi Angeli, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Marie-Ange Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France
Viorel Nicolau, University of Galati, Galati, Romania

Simulation in the Built Environment

Bernadette O'Regan, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Agustin Yague, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Simulation in Defense

TBA

Simulation in Archaeology

Jean Yves Blaise, UMR CNRS/MCC 694 MAP, Marseille, France
Anders Hast, University of Gavle, Gavle, Sweden
Wolfgang Kreutzer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Marcos A Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield , United Kingdom

Simulation Projects in the Arab World

Saleh Al-Jufout, Tafila Technical University, Tafila, Jordan
Mohamed-Aly O. Louly, University of Technology, Troyes, France