Dear Colleague,

Please find enclosed the preliminary programme
for the 29th European Simulation and Modelling
Conference ESM'2015, which will be held at the
Holiday Inn, Leicester, United Kingdom from
October 26-28, 2015.

Conference link is on:
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/368

The online registration form is linked on:
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3293

Regards
Philippe
Preliminary Programme
Session Timing

October 26
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/Tutorial
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 Sessions
18.00-20.00 TBA

October 27
O8.30-17.00 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Invited 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 28
08.30-09.00 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Sessions/Tutorial
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Sessions
12.30-12.45 Closing Session and Best Paper Award
Keynotes

Local Nash Equilibrium in Social Networks
Professor Cyrille Bertelle, Vice President for Research and Development, Université du Havre - Normandie Université, Le Havre, France

Organizational VS Academic Knowledge (why some organizations do not believe in knowledge?)
Dr. Eric Rosales, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Tutorials

Introduction to Agent-Based Simulation using Repast Simphony
Dr. Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Software for this tutorial to download from: http://repast.sourceforge.net/download.php

Soft Body Dynamics on the GPU Using Shells
Noe Pages Puertas, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Fluid Simulation in Games: The Advantages and Pains
Haoyang Hou, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sessions

SIMULATION FUNDAMENTALS

OPT_09
Big Data Reduction
William Conley, Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, U.S.A.

OPT_10
Traversing Two and Twelve Dimensional Space
William Conley, Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, U.S.A.

RAND_01
Applying Refined Descriptive Sampling on the Vibrating String Model
Megdouda Ourbih-Tara and Sofia Guebli, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, Algeria

METH_02_BOND
Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Physical Systems Using Bond Graph and Dynamic Causality
J Madrigal Salas and R F Ngwompo, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

DIS_SIM_03
Hybrid Synchronization in the DCB Based on Uncoordinated Checkpoints
Flávio Marques Migowski Carvalho, Agência Nacional da Aviação Civil, Distrito Federal, Brasilia, and Braulio Adriano de Mello, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Santa Catarina, Chapecó, Brasil

META RESOURCE MODELS

METH_06
A Meta-Model for Consistent & Automatic Simulation Model Selection
Sangeeth Saagar Ponnusamy, Airbus Operations SAS & CNRS-LAAS, Vincent Albert, CNRS-LAAS and Patrice Thebault, Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, France

METH_04_TOOLS
A Resource Model for the Rule Based Dynamic Business Process Modelling and Simulation
Olegas Vasilecas, Diana Kalibatiene and Audrius Rima, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania and Ilze Birzniece, and Peteris Rudzajs, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

AI_01
Flat vs Nested Firm Real-time Transactions: an Analysis of their Success Ratio
Mourad Kaddes and Majed Abdouli, MIR@CL, Sfax University, Tunisia and Laurent Amanton LITIS, and Mohalilou Aleiyouka and Alexandre Berred, LMAH, Le Havre University, Le Havre France

AGENT_05
Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce the Effect of Uncertainties on Project Planning
Parminder Singh Kang, Adam Aboutaleb and Alistair Duffy, Lean Engineering Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester, and Tim Embley and James Glenn, Costain Ltd. Maidenhead, and Colin Adams, Loxcius Ltd, Southsea, United Kingdom

METH_07
Simulate to infer: The experimental Research Methodology applied to Simulations
Dorra Louati, Universite de la Manouba, ENSI-RIADI, Universite Paris 6 and Slimane Ben Miled, Universite Tunis el Manar, ENIT-LAMSIN; Institut Pasteur de Tunis, UMMISCO-IRD-UPMC

INTELLIGENT DATA SIMULATION

INTEL_05
Metaheuristics Applied to the Autonomous Movement of Intelligent Agents
Dâmaris da Silva Bento, Bárbara da Costa Rodrigues, Juliano Costa Penha Alves, Bruno Luan de Sousa, Angelo Batista Neves Júnior, Lindomar Matos de Paulo and Alex F. V. Machado, IFSEMG – Câmpus Rio Pomba, Rio Pomba, Brazil

INTEL_06
Predicting 2 Way Football Results by Means of Data Mining
José Manuel F. Machado, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

PETRI NET SIMULATION

PETRI_01
Quantitative Analysis of the Publish/Subscribe Paradigm in the Context of Web Service Resources with Timed Colored Petri Nets
Valentın Valero, Hermenegilda Macia and Gregorio Dıaz, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

PETRI_03
Deriving the Performance Indices in Product-Form Stochastic Petri Nets: Open
Problems and Simulation
Simonetta Balsamo, Andrea Marin and Ivan Stojic, Universit_a Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy

SIMULATION TOOLS

DIS_SIM_06
Discrete Event Simulation Packages Data Sharing: A Case Study of ARENA and Simul8 Softwares Data Integration Analysis
Yusuf Jamiu, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

DIS_SIM_07
ASSISI Playground: A Simulation Tool for Collective Bio-Hybrid System Research
Pedro Mariano, Rob Mills and Luis Correia, BioISI, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal and Damjan Miklic and Stjepan Bogdan, LARICS Laboratory, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

DIS_SIM_09
Synthesis of a Three Stages Servovalve by AMESIM
Costin Ina, Daniela Vasiliu, Nicolae Vasiliu and Constantin Călinoiu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SIMULATION

OPT_03
New Codesign Solutions for Modelling and Partitioning of Probabilistic Reconfigurable Embedded Software
Ines Ghribi, Riadh Ben Abdallahy and Mohamed Khalgui, Tunisia Science University and INSAT, Tunisia, and Marco Platzner, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany

OPT_05
Modeling Issues when Using Simulation to test The Performance of Mathematical Programming Models under Stochastic Conditions
Anne-Laure Ladier and Gülgün Alpan, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, G-SCOP, Grenoble, France and Allen G. Greenwood, Mississippi State University, USA

PAR_03
Function Slices: A Model to Extract Parallelism from Sequential Applications
Nils Potthoff, Carsten Gremzow, Christoph Brandau and Dietmar Tutsch, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

DEVS

DEVS_01
Optimizing Distributed DEVS Simulations with Partitioning and Hidden Markov Model Learning Methods
Christopher Herbez and Eric Ramat, LISIC, ULCO, Calais, France and Gauthier Quesnel, MIAT, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, France

DEVS_04
A New Approach to Modeling Dynamic Structure Systems
Oumar Maiga, Universite des Sciences, Techniques et Technologies, Bamako, Mali, and Hamzat Olanrewaju Aliyu, School of ICT, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, and Mamadou Kaba Traore, LIMOS CNRS UMR 6158, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

DEVS_05
A Framework for Discrete Events Systems Enactment
Hamzat Olanrewaju Aliyu, School of ICT, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, and Oumar Maiga, Universite des Sciences, Techniques et Technologies, Bamako, Mali, and Mamadou Kaba Traore, LIMOS CNRS UMR 6158, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

HARDWARE OPTIMIZATION

NEUR_01
Mental Tasks Modeling and Simulation for Brain-Computer Interface
Svetla Radeva and Dimitar Radev, University of Telecommunications and Post, Sofia, Bulgaria

DIS_SIM_01
A Based-Optimization Scheduling Approach for Multi-Processor Platform with DVFS Facilities
Hamza Chniter, INSAT Institute, University of Carthago, Tunisia and Fethi Jarray
CEDRIC Laboratory, CNAM,Paris cedex 03, France and Mohamed Khalgui
INSAT Institute, University of Carthago, Tunisia and Maryline Chetto, IRCCyN Laboratory, University of Nantes, Nantes, France

OPT_04
Efficient Techniques for Test Generation and Validation of Reconfigurable Hardware Systems
Asma Ben Ahmed, Olfa Mosbahi and Mohamed KHALGUI, LISI Laboratory, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology and Tunisia Polytechnic School, University Of Carthage, Tunisia

POPULATION DYNAMICS

AGENT_04
Modeling and Simulation of Tawaf and Sa'Yee: A Survey of Recent Work in the Field
Omar Kurdi, Daniela M. Romano and Mike Stannett, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

AGENT_09
An Agent-Based Approach to reveal the Effects of Age-Related Contact Patterns on Epidemic Spread
Dietmar Neubacher, Nikolaus Furian and Siegfried Vossner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

HEALTH CARE SIMULATION

DEVS_03_HOS
Towards a Framework for Holistic Analysis of Healthcare Systems
Ignace Djitog, African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, and Hamzat O. Aliyu, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, and Mamadou K. Traore, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

OPT_13_HOS
Simulating the Impact of Optimized Dispatching Strategies for Patient Transits
Nikolaus Furian, Michael O'Sullivan, Cameron Walker, Simon Riezboz and Thomas Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand and Dietmar Neubacher and Siegfried Vossner, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATION

ENV_AI_01
Comparing Neural Networks and Pseudo Inverse Matrix to Flood Forecasting of the Amazon River
Marcio Menezes, Marly Costa and Cicero Costa Filho, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil

GRAPH_04_PAR
Performance Evaluation of Discontinuity Tracking in Vector Fields for Avalanche Simulation
Angel Rodriguez-Cerro and Rafael J. Martinez-Dura, LSyM - IRTIC., and Miguel Lozano and Ignacio Garcia-Fernandez, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

OPT_14
Model Calibration and Hydraulic Optimization of the Water Distribution System of the Upper Silesian Waterworks
Jan Studzinski, Andrzej Ziólkowski and Dorota Tomasiuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

OPT_15_FLUID
A Simulation Study of Minimizing Water Cost in Multisource Water Distribution System
Rafał Brodziak, Andrzej Urbaniak, Jędrzej Bylka and Przemysław Zakrzewski, Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

OPT_20
Modelling and Optimization of Communal Sewerage Systems
Grazyna Petriczek and Jan Studzinski, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

FLUID FLOW SIMULATION

FLUID_TOOLS_01
CFD Analysis on Characteristics of CANDU6 Ventilation/Cooling Systems
S. Nicolici, CITON-RATEN), Magurele, Judet Ilfov, and R. Arsene, S.C. Energonuclear S.A., and I. Prisecaru and D. Dupleac, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

FLUID_03
Validation of a Numerical Approach for the Simulation of Liquid Metal Jet Breakup in Water Pool
Radu Secareanu and Ilie Prisecaru, University “Politehnica” Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania and Riccardo Mereu and Fabio Inzoli, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

ENERGY CONSUMPTION SIMULATION

OPT_02
Optimal Load Sharing Strategy in System of Multiple Source Based on Model Control Predictive
Mouhamadou Falilou Ndiaye and Pape Alioune Ndiaye, CIFRES – Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique UCAD Dakar, Sénégal, and François Guerin and Dimitri Lefebre, (GREAH) of the University of Le Havre, Le Havre Cedex, France

OPT_07
Wireless Sensor Network Live Circle Simulation Tools To Balance Energy Consumption in the Network Nodes
Aleksejs Jurenoks and Leonids Nocickis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

OPT_18
Simulation of Power Demand in Micro-Grid Supplied by Mix of Sources including Small Scale Hydropower Plants
Eugeniusz M. Sroczan, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

PAR_01
Real-time Task Reconfiguration in Energy-Harvesting based Multiprocessor Systems
Wiem Housseyni, Olfa Mosbahi and Mohamed Khalgui, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology Institute-University of Carthago, Tunisia and Maryline Chettoy University of Nantes IRCCyN UMR CNRS, Nantes, France

INTEL_04
Application of Intelligent Control Algorithms for Thermal Comfort and Energy Saving in the Computer Laboratory
Mariusz Nowak and Andrzej Urbaniak, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

ENGINEERING SIMULATION

METH_01
Modelling of the Vertical Apparent Mass at the Seat Surface and Backrest
Naser Nawayseh, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

METH_08
Mathematical Analysis on Pitch and Roll Variations Based Hit Probability Prediction for a Combat Vehicle Design
Hwan Il Kang, Agency of Defense Development, Yuseong, and Hyun Soo Kim, Sang Yeong Choi and Jai Jeong Pyun, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea

OPT_12
Analysis of Design Parameters Based on Bullet Trajectories and Hit Probability
Hwan Il Kang, Agency of Defense Development, Yuseong, and Sang Yeong Choi, Hyun Soo Kim and Jai Jeong Pyun, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea

OPT_17
Hit Probability Prediction for a Wheeled Armored Vehicle with Gun and Turret
Hwan Il Kang, Agency of Defense Development, Yuseong, and Hyun Soo Kim, Sang Yeong Choi and Jai Jeong Pyun, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea

AUTOMOTIVE SIMULATION

GRAPH_01
Procedural Modelling Techniques to Configure Serious Driving Game Scenes
Pedro Rosa and Rosaldo Rossetti, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

GRAPH_07_TRAIN
Driving Simulator Development Phase II – Building and Controlling Scenarios through the Motion Algorithm
Alexandra Tuca and Valerian Croitorescu, Scientific Research and Continuous Training Center for Sustainable Automotive Technologies, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, and Thomas Brandmeier, Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area, Ingolstadt, Germany

AGENT_02
Modeling and Formal Verification of Reconfigurable Vehicular Platoons
Emna Guerfala, Polytechnic School of Tunis, and Mohamed Khalgui, LISI Lab, INSAT, University of Carthage, Tunisia and Anis Koubâa, CISTER Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal and Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

GRAPHICS FUNDAMENTALS

INTEL_01
An extension to the FEEDB Multimodal Database of Facial Expressions and Emotions
Luis Marco-Gimenez, Miguel Arevalillo-Herraez, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain and Aladdin Ayesh, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, and Mariusz Szwoch, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

GRAPH_05_POS
Visualisation of Physical Simulation using Javascript Physics Engine with X3DOM
Olaf Berndt and Linda Huber, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and the University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

MEDIA NETWORK SIMULATION

AI_03
Video Replication over DASH-DMS
Haifa Harrouch, Mourad Kaddes, Majed Abdouli and Rafik Bouaziz, MIR@CL, Sfax University, Tunisia and King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Claude Duvallet, LITIS, Le Havre University, Le Havre France

ANMT_01
Study of the Disturbance Spread in an Interaction Network
Haifa Rabai, Rodolphe Charrier and Cyrille Bertelle, Universite du Havre, Le Havre, France

VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION

EDU_03
3D Surgery Simulation Software Development Kit
Anton Ivaschenko, Samara State Aerospace University, and Alexandr Kolsanov and Aikush Nazaryan, Samara State Medical University, Samara, and Andrey Kuzmin, Penza State University, Penza, Russia

GRAPH_02
Affective Computing: Measuring the Player Emotions in Virtual Reality Environments
Gabriel B. S. M. Moreira, Paulo Roberto C. Faustino, Matheus M. Ramalho, Alex F. V. Machado and Matheus F.O Baffa, Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais, Brazil

GRAPH_03
Enhancement of Cognitive Areas using Immersive Technologies for Electronic Games
Gabriel B. S. M. Moreira, Paulo Roberto C. Faustino, Matheus M. Ramalho , Alex F. V. Machado and Matheus F.O Baffa, Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Computação, Brazil

GRAPH_09_TRAIN
A Simulation Based Game Approach for Test Drive Exam
Rula Al-Azawi, Gulf College, Muscat, Oman and Aladdin Ayesh, DMU University, Leicester, United Kingdom

VIRTUAL PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS

LIV_01
Semi-Real Evaluation Environments for Mobile Applications
Esmahan Eryilmaz, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

AI_05_SUP
A Genetic Algorithm with Shuffle for Job Shop Scheduling Problems
Fredrik Danielsson, Bo Svensson, and Dhanush Reddy, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

ROBOTICS SIMULATION

DIS_SIM_11
Simulating and Implementing the Integration of Service Robots into Manual Work Processes
Frank Heinze, Maike Klöckner, Juergen Rossmann, Bernd Kuhlenkoetter and Jochen Deuse, Institute for Research and Transfer, RIF e.V., Dortmund, Germany

OPT_01
Simulation-based Time & Jerk Optimisation for Robotic Press Tending
Emile Glorieux, Bo Svensson and Fredrik Danielsson, University West, Trollhättan, and Bengt Lennartson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

GRAPH_10
Flexible Data Logging, Management and Analysis of Simulation Results of Complex Systems for E-Robotics Applications
Linus Atorf, Torben Cichon and Juergen Rossmann, Institute for Man-Machine-Interaction, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

BIO_01
Fish Motion Simulation
Ievgen Smielik, Klaus Muller and Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert, Institute for Real-Time Learning Systems, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

COMPLEX INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

DIS_SIM_05
A Graph Model of Intermodal Transportation Networks
Rui P. P. Cardoso, Antonio D. Casimiro and Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

DIS_SIM_02
Verification by Discrete Simulation of Interlocking Systems
Quentin Cappart, Christophe Limbree and Pierre Schaus, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Axel Legay, INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France

SUP_05
Providing Adaptive Traffic Routing Based on User and Network Context
Paulo Sampaio, Salvador University – UNIFACS, Salvador, Brazil

SUP_01
The Need of Simulation in Queuing Models for Port Logistics
Pasquale Legato and Rina M. Mazza, University of Calabria, Rende CS, Italy

SUP_03
Impact of Different Input Data Sets on the Sorting System Performance of a Parcel Transshipment Terminal
Daniel Diekmann, Uwe Clausen and Ina Dormuth, Institute of Transport Logistics
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

SUP_02
Pickup and Delivery Selection with a Fixed Vehicle Cost
Katrien Ramaekers, Gerrit K. Janssens, Tabitha Maes and An Caris, Universiteit Hasselt – campus Diepenbeek, Diepenbeek, Belgium

AGENT_06
Using Agent Based Simulation to Investigate Daily Order Variation of a B2B Fresh Food Supplier
Ross Clement, Parminder Kang and Alistair Duffy, Lean Engineering Group, De Montfort University, Leicester, and Ashley Howell, Zest Produce Ltd,, Little Eaton, United Kingdom