ECMS 2005, 19th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation

19TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION
(formerly referred to as ESM 2005)

Simulation in wider Europe

June 1st - 4th, 2005
Riga, Latvia

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Conference Chair: Yuri Merkuryev
Corresponding member, Latvian Academy of Sciences
Head, Dept. of Modelling and Simulation
Riga Technical University
1, Kalku Street
LV-1658 Riga, Latvia
Tel. +371-7089514, +371-7089508
Fax: +371-7089513,-7820094
E-mail: merkur@itl.rtu.lv
www.itl.rtu.lv/mik/ymerk.html

Assistant Conference Chair: Wolfgang Borutzky

Department of Applied Computer Science

University of Applied Sciences

53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany

Grantham-Allee 20

Phone: +49-2241-865-288

Fax: +49-2241-865-8288

E-mail: wolfgang.borutzky@fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de

General Program Chair: Richard Zobel
Department of Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus
80 Vichit Songkram Road, Kathu
Phuket, Thailand 83210

E-mail: r.zobel@ntlworld.com
rzobel@phuket.psu.ac.th

Adjoint Program Chair: Eugène Kerckhoffs
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 2781315
Fax: +31 15 2787141
E-mail: e.j.h.kerckhoffs@ewi.tudelft.nl

ESM Conference Director: David Al-Dabass
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom
Tel: +44-115-848-6015
Fax: +44-115-848-6518
Email: david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk

Local Organization Chair: Galina Merkuryeva
Department of Modelling and Simulation
Riga Technical University
1, Kalku Street
LV-1658 Riga, Latvia
Tel. +371-7089514
Fax +371-7089513
E-mail: esm2005@itl.rtu.lv

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

High-Performance Computing and Simulation (HPC)

Track chair: Helen Karatza
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece,
E-mail: karatza@csd.auth.gr
Program chair: Waleed W. Smari
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA
Voice: (937) 229-2795
Fax: (937) 229-4529
E-mail: Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu
IPC members:
Hamid Abachi, Monash University, Australia
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Saleh R. Al-Araji, Etisalat College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates
Samir S. Al-Khayatt, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Reda A. Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
David Bader, University of New Mexico, USA
Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Arndt Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Edson Norberto Cáceres, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Mario Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Yinong Chen, Arizona State University, USA
Michel Dayde, Institute of Research in Computer Science of Toulouse (IRIT)-ENSEEIHT, France
Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Robert Elsässer, University of Paderborn, Germany
Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bertil Folliot, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris VI, France
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany
Patricia González Gómez, University of Coruna, Spain
Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida, USA
Kenneth A. Hawick, Massey University - Albany, New Zealand
Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA
Ju-Wook Jang, Sogang University, Korea
Hai Jin, University of Southern California, USA
Daniel S. Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA, USA
Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Harald Kosch, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Dieter A. Kranzlmueller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Wolfgang Kreutzer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Nouredine Melab, LIFL - CNRS UMR 8022 - Université de Lille I, France
Philippe Mussi, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, France
M. Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Christophe Rosenberger, LVR - ENSI de Bourges, France
Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway
Andre Schiper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland
Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan
Edwin H-M. Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Charalabos Skianis, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece
Leonel Sousa, Superior Institute of Technology (IST), Portugal
Przemyslaw Stpiczynski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland
Domenico Talia, DEIS, Universita' della Calabria, Italy
Gary Tan Soon Huat, National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Georgios K. Theodoropoulos, University of Birmingham, UK
Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany
Christian Toinard, ENSI de Bourges, France
Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lucian N. Vintan, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
S. Q. Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Junaid A. Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, USA

Simulation of Intelligent Systems (IS)

Track chair: Lars Nolle
School of Computing and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)115 848 6021
E-mail: lars.nolle@ntu.ac.uk
Track program chair: Shane Lee
Department of Engineering
University of Wales, Newport
Caerleon Campus
PO Box 101
Newport
South Wales
NP18 3YH, United Kingdom
E-mail: shane.lee@newport.ac.uk
Track co-chair: Ivan Zelinka
Institute of Process Control and Applied Informatics
Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 57 603 3102
Fax: +420 57 603 3333
E-mail: zelinka@ft.utb.cz
IPC members:
Jozef Babjak, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Friedrich Biegler-Koenig, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Taha Osman, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Pavel Osmera, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Gerald Schaefer, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Milos Seda, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Simulation of Complex Systems (CS)

Track chair: Krzysztof Amborski
Warsaw University of Technology
Institute of Control & Industrial Electronics
Koszykowa 75, Gm.E
00-662Warszawa, Poland
Tel: +48 22 660-7618
Fax: +48 22 625-6633
E-mail: ambor@isep.pw.edu.pl
Program chair: Edward Szczerbicki
The University of Newcastle
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
NSW 2308 Callaghan, Australia
Tel: +61 (02) 49 21 6209
Fax: +61 (02) 49 21 6946
E-mail: Edward.Szczerbicki@newcastle.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/me/staff/edward-szczerbicki.html
IPC members:
Andrzej Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Jerzy W. Rozenblit, The University of Arizona, USA
Andrzej Sluzek, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mladen Kos, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jaroslav Sklenar, University of Malta, Malta

Simulation in Technology, Processes and Operations Research (OR)

Track chair: Alessandra Orsoni
University of Kingston
Kingston Business School
Kingston Hill, Kingston-Upon-Thames,
Surrey, United Kingdom, KT2 7LB.
E-mail: A.Orsoni@kingston.ac.uk
Program chair: Serhiy Kovela
University of Kingston
Kingston Business School,
Kingston Hill, Kingston-Upon-Thames,
Surrey, United Kingdom, KT2 7LB.
Tel.: 020 8547 7348
E-mail: S.Kovela@kingston.ac.uk

IPC members:
Romeo Bandinelli, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Piers Campbell, University of Ulster, Belfast, United Kingdom
Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Teruaki Ito, University of Tokushima, Japan
Nikolaos Karadimas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Petia Koprinkova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Javier Otamendi, Saint Louis University of Madrid, Spain
Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Italy

Simulation and IT-Based Modelling in Logistics and Transport (LT)

Track chair: Eberhard Bluemel
Fraunhofer Institute
Factory Operation and Automation
Sandtorstrasse 22
D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 391 / 4090 110
E-mail: eberhard.bluemel@iff.fraunhofer.de
URL: http://www.iff.fhg.de
Program chair: Leonid Novitsky
Riga Technical University
Box IDC-IT Kr.Valdemara Str.36
LV-1010 Riga, Latvia
E-mail: idc@balva.lv
Program chair: Evtim T. Peytchev
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44.115.841.8418
E-mail: epe@doc.ntu.ac.uk
IPC members:
Victor Taratoukhine, SAP C.I.S. and Baltic States, Russia
Edwards Williams, University of Michigan Dearborn, USA
F.A. Schmidt, Maritime & Supply Chain Solutions, Great Britain
Mingtao Zhou, Beijing HOPE Computer Company, Beijing, PR China
Hanns Ittmann, Centre for Logistics and Decision Support, South Africa

Vision and Visualization (VV)

Track chair: Gerald Schaefer
School of Computing and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, U.K.
E-mail: Gerald.Schaefer@ntu.ac.uk
http://vision.doc.ntu.ac.uk

Program chair: Juri Tolujew
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation
Sandtorstr. 22
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
E-mail: Juri.Tolujew@iff.fraunhofer.de

IPC members:
Gloria Bueno, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Hüseyin Kemâl Çakmak, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Pasi Fränti, University of Joensuu, Finland
Graham Horton, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Dmitry Nikolaev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Gui Yun Tian, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, United Kingdom

Computer Games and Simulation (GAME)

Track chair: Qasim Mehdi
University of Wolverhampton
School of Computing and Information Technology
Wolverhampton, U.K.
E-mail: Q.H.Mehdi@wlv.ac.uk

Program chair: Norman Gough
University of Wolverhampton
School of Computing and Information Technology
Wolverhampton, U.K.
E-mail: n.gough@wlv.ac.uk

Computational Modeling and Simulation in Science and Engineering (SE)

Track chair: Dietmar Moeller
University Hamburg
Fachbereich Informatik
Vogt-Kölln-Strasse 30
D-22727 Hamburg, Germany
E-mail: dietmar.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TIS/

Program chair: John Pollard
University College London
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Torrington Place 
WC1E 7JE London, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (020) 7679 3958
E-mail: jp@ee.ucl.ac.uk

IPC members:
David Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Felix Breitenecker, TU Vienna, Austria
Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Rogier P. van Wijk van Brievingh, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Peter-Wolfgang Gräber, TU Dresden, Germany

Special Session on 'Successful Applications of Simulation Services'

Session chair: Kaj Juslin
VTT Industrial Systems, Finland
E-mail: Kaj.Juslin@vtt.fi

IPC members:
Bernd Noche, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Nicos Karcanias, City University London, United Kingdom
Peter Ylen, VTT Industrial Systems, Finland
Johannes Krauth, SDZ GmbH Dortmund, Germany

Agent-Based Simulation (ABS)

Track chair: Bernd Schmidt
University of Passau
Chair for Operations Research
Innstrasse 33
Passau, Germany
E-mail: schmidtb@fmi.uni-passau.de

Program chair: Eugène Kerckhoffs
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 2781315
Fax: +31 15 2787141
E-mail: e.j.h.kerckhoffs@ewi.tudelft.nl

IPC members:
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Eugene Kindler, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jean-Pierre Müller, Cirad Montpellier, France
Denis Phan, University of Rennes 1, France
Thomas Uthmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Simulation in Education (EDU)

Track chair: Agostino Bruzzone
MISS, Genoa University
via Opera Pia 15
16145 Genova, Italy
Tel +39 019 264 555
Fax +39 019 264 558
E-mail: agostino@itim.unige.it
URL: http://st.itim.unige.it
Program chair: Gerson Gomes Cunha
LAMCE COPPE UFRJ
Ilha do FundÆo - Cidade Universit ria,
Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco I-2000
21949-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel +55 (21) 2562-8420, +55 (21) 2562-8413
Fax +55 (21) 2562-8414
E-mail: gerson@lamce.ufrj.br
IPC members:
Ali Elkamel, Waterloo University, Canada
Claudia Frydman, LSIS, France
Marina Massei, Liophant Simulation, Italy
Robert Signorile, Boston College, USA
Simone Viazzo, DIPTEM, Italy

12th International Conference on
ANALYTICAL and STOCHASTIC MODELLING
TECHNIQUES and APPLICATIONS
(ASMTA)

Conference chair: Khalid Al-Begain
University of Glamorgan
School of Computing
CF37 1DL Treforest, Pontypridd
Wales, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1443 482780
Fax: +44 (0)1443 482715
E-mail: kbegain@glam.ac.uk
URL: http://www.glam.ac.uk/soc/People/staff/kalbegain.php
Conference co-chair: Gunter Bolch
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department of Computer Science
Martensstrasse 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel: +49.9131.857903, Fax: +49.9131.39388
E-mail: bolch@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
URL: http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~bolch
Local Chair: Alexander Andronov
Division of Mathematical Support of Transport Systems Control
Riga Technical University
Riga, Latvia
E-mail: lora@mailbox.riga.lv

Program Chair: Miklos Telek
Technical University of Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: telek@hit.bme.hu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE for ASMTA

Vladimir Anisimov, UK
Jesus R. Artalejo, Spain
Irfan Awan, UK
Amine Berqia, Portugal
Pavel Bocharov, Russia
Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, USA
Laurie Cuthbert, UK
Alexander Dudin, Belarus
Antonis Economou, Greece
Reinhard German, Germany
Günter Haring, Austria
Armin Heindl, Germany
Yeong Min Jang, Korea
Helen Karatza, Greece
Eugene Kopytov, Latvia
A. Krishnamoorthy, India
Remco Litjens, Netherlands
Don McNickle, New Zealand
Bruno Mueller-Clostermann, Germany
Mohammad Ould-Khaoua, UK
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, New Zealand
Bruno Sericola, France
Janos Sztrik, Hungary
Baris Tan, Turkey
Miklos Telek, Hungary
Nigel Thomas, UK
Dietmar Tutsch, Germany
Kurt Tutschku, Germany
Mike Woodward, UK