SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS MESM'2014 The 14th annual Middle Eastern Simulation and Modelling Conference Arab Open University http://www.arabou.org Muscat, Oman February 3-5, 2014 For latest information see: www.eurosis.org or http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/326 Dear Colleague, This is a reminder that the submission period for MESM'2014 starts NOVEMBER 1ST and ends NOVEMBER 25TH for late submissions. KEYNOTE The keynote for MESM'2014 is Assoc. Prof. Björn Johansson, Production Systems, Chalmers Univ. Of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden who will give a talk on: Utilizing simulation for a more sustainable production For more info see: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/2715 WORKSHOP MESM'2014 will feature the following workshop: How to conduct a simulation study – a hands-on workshop using FlexSim given by Katharina Albert, the Managing Director of Kat Logics. For more info see: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/2725 A quick reminder of the tracks and workshops for MESM'2014 [ ] Modelling Methodology [ ] Modelling Tools [ ] Analysis Methodology [ ] Simulation of Networks and Communications [ ] Antenna Design and Measurement [ ] Complex Systems Simulation [ ] Simulation of Systems and Image Processing [ ] Energy Systems Simulation [ ] Simulation in the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry [ ] Multimedia and Virtual Reality Systems [ ] Decision Processing in Management [ ] Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Systems [ ] Modelling and Simulation for Industrial Applications [ ] Web Based Simulation [ ] Simulation in Information Processing and Software Development [ ] Computational Cognition and Learning [ ] Simulation in Fuzzy Systems [ ] Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms [ ] Simulation in the Built Environment [ ] Simulation in Archeology [ ] Simulation in the Arab World [ ] Poster Session [ ] Student Session [ ] Tutorials [ ] Exhibition Conference Committee Conference General Chair Prof. Dr Marwan Al-Akaidi, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs, AOU, Kuwait Local Chair Dr. Moosa Al-Kindi, AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Local Committee Dr. Youssef Saad Takroni, AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Dr. Ahmed Al Namany, Modern College, Oman Prof. Hadj Bourdoucen, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Dr. Ahmed Al Kindi, Nizwa University, Oman Dr. Saqiq Ali, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Dr. Fatma Al-Abri, Higher College of Technology, Oman Dr. Maryam Abdullah Al Awadi, Salalah College of Technology Dr. Nabil Sahli, GuTech, Oman Dr. Nafaâ Jabeur, Dofar University, Oman Mr. Arun N.S, Middle East College, Oman Mr. Salim Al Amri, Salalah College of Technology Mr. Talib Al Mahruqi, Nizwa College of Technology Mr. Raja Waseem Anwar, AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Mr. Sherimon P.C., AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Mrs. Farah Abu Shahla, AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Mrs. Sumitra Sreenivas, AOU, Faculty of Computer Studies, Muscat, Oman Dr. Laila Lakhoua, AOU, Oman Mr. Rengarajan Veerswamy, AOU, Oman Dr. Hamed Al Ghafri, AOU, Oman International Programme Committee Modelling Methodology and Modelling Tools John Dalseng, Finnmark College, Alta, Norway 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 Michel Minoux, Universite P. et M. Curie-CNRS, Paris cedex 05, France Tudor Niculiu, University Politecnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Zdravko Terze, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Dmitry Zaitsev, Odessa National Telecommunications Academy, Odessa, Ukraine Analysis Methodology Abdel Aitouche, Hautes Etudes Industrielles, Lille Cedex, France Bruno Ciciani, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy John Dalton, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Mauro Iacono, SUN - II Universita di Napoli, Aversa (CE) Italy Jens Kohlmeyer, Universitaet Ulm, Ulm, Germany Francesco Moscato, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Aversa, Italy Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, ENS des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Gardanne, France Nadia Zanzouri, ENIT, Tunis, Tunisia Simulation of Networks and Communication Salvatore D'Antonio, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica, Naples, Italy Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, Khalifa University of Science, Sharjah, UAE Eugen Dedu, LIFC, Montbelliard, France Carlos Palau, UPV, Valencia, Spain Djamel Sadok, The Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Ahmad A. Sharieh, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Veronique Veque, Universite de Paris Sud LRI, Orsay, France Hadi T. Ziboon, University of Technology, Iraq Antenna Design and Measurement Hassan Salti, Arab Open University, Kuwait Branch, Al Ardia, Kuwait Complex Systems Simulation Marta Pla Castells, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Michele Colajanni, Universita di Modena, Modena, Italy Krzysztof Fujarewicz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland Tom Dhaene, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Jean-Christophe Guyot, ASTRIUM Space, Les Mureaux Cedex, France Daniel Huber, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany Jan Lemeire, VUB, Brussels, Belgium Jorge M. Perez, ITP, S.Fernando de Hernares, Spain Panos Periorellis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, United Kingdom Fatima Rateb, University College London, London, United Kingdom Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Marc Rouff, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France Jan Studzinski, Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland Simulation of Signal and Image Processing Bruno Ciciani, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy Aboul Ella Hassanine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait Tania Jimenez, LIA, Universite d'Avignon, France Viorel Nicolau, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania Bogdan Raducanu, UAB, Cerdanyola, Spain Renate Sitte, Griffith University, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Australia Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Hanene Trichili, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia Ahmed M. Zeki, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Energy Systems Simulation Paulo Maciel, UFPE, Recife, Brazil Musleh B. AL-Otaibi, Alahmadi, Kuwait Ahmad Jammal, Ministry of Education & Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon Janos Sebestyen Janosy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Porto, Portugal Tzanko Tzanov, Polytechnical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 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 Vahid Nassehi, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom 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 and Virtual Reality Systems Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Rion, Patras, Greece Eckhard C. Bollow, Software Technology and IT-Project Management, Lueneburg, Germany Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ahmed Mostefaoui , Laboratoire d'Informatique de Franche-Comte Montbeliard Cedex, France Dorin-Mircea Popovici, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania Christian Reimann, FH-Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Zasriati Azla Sabot, University Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR) Selanngor, Malaysia Mike Sips, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany Decision Processing in Management 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 Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Systems Manuel Alfonseca, Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Clemens Heitzinger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Manuel Gonzalez Hidalgo, Edf. Anselm Turmeda, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain Tomislav Pribanic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Jean-Pierre Thomesse, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France Olaf Tietje, Systaim GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland Modelling and Simulation for Industrial Applications Track Chair: Prof. David Stockton, de Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Luis Felipe Acebes Arconada, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain Leopoldo Arnesto, UPV, Valencia, Spain Michel Benne, University of La Reunion - LE2P, Saint-Andre, France Pascal Berruet, Universite Bretagne Sud, Lorient cedex, France PJ Byrne, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland A. Chatzinikolaou, Bosch Rexroth SA, Athens, Greece Olaf Diegel, Massey University, Albany Campus, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand S Collart Dutilleul, LAGIS-EC-LILLE, Villenneuve d'Ascq, France Georges Habchi, Polytech Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France 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 Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden Isabel Garcia Gutierrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain Thomas Hanne, Fraunhofer-Institut ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany Daniel Krajzewicz, GermanAerospace Centre, Berlin, Germany Seung Man Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA Herve Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France Vittorio Maniezzo, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Rafael J. Martinez, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Philippe Mussi, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Frederic Serin, IUT du Havre, Le Havre, France Web based Simulation Victor Bassilious, University of Abertay Dundee, United Kingdom Jorge Marx Gomez, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Wolfgang Kuehn, University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Germany Jose Machado, Unviersidade do Minho, Braga Codex, Portugal Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Ilissia, Athens, Greece Francesco Quaglia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy Stefan Sarstedt, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Alfonso Urquia, UNED, Madrid, Spain Simulation in Information Processing Julien Bourgeois, LIFC, Montbelliard, France Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven, Camous Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 04, France Laurent Guillon, Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France Jean-Claude Hochon, GFI Consulting, Toulouse, France Peter Lawrence, Deakin University, Bentleigh, Australia Christophe Roche, Universite de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac cedex, France Christian Siemers, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Computational Cognition and Learning Oussama Hamid, Arab Open University (AOU) - Kuwait Branch, Al Ardia, Kuwait Simulation in Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms Track Chair: Kifaya Qaddoum, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom Chrissanthi Angeli, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Athens, Greece Piotr Bania, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Mokhtar Beldjehem, St.Anne's University, Halifax, Canada Paulo Alexandre Ribeiro Cortez, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal Rashidy Kanan, University of Amirkabir, Tehran, Iran Antoni Ligeza, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Marie-Ange Manier, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort Cedex, France Viorel Nicolau, University of Galati, Galati, Romania Paulo Moura Oliveira, UTAD-Universidade de Tres-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal Angus Wu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Simulation in the Built Environment Bernadette O'Regan, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Agustin Yague, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 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. 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