The 6th International Mediterranean Modeling Multiconference - EMSS2009

Detailed Program EMSS

i3m2009 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:55:53 +0000

Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Material Handling Systems

i3m2009 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:54:57 +0000

Modeling, simulation and optimization techniques are approved methods to support appropriate design and efficient operation of material handling systems. An increasing number of projects are run in this field, but there are also ongoing research activities focusing on e.g.

Modeling and Simulation with Petri Nets

i3m2009 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:13:52 +0000

Petri nets (PN) constitute a well-known formal paradigm for the modeling, analysis, simulation and optimization of discrete event dynamic systems, with different interpretations (autonomous, timed, stochastic, …) and abstraction levels (ordinary, generalized, colored, …). Their double interpretation, graphic/mathematical, allows developing efficiently not only the modeling and simulation of complex concurrent discrete systems, such as production or logistic industrial systems, but also their performance analysis.

Industrial Engineering

i3m2009 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:29:43 +0000

The track aims at an audience of researchers, educators and practitioners of industrial engineering applications in which Modelling & Simulation could be a substantial part of the work or research. It encourages the original contributions to the development of new computerized methodologies for solving industrial engineering problems, and applications of these methodologies to problems of interest to the broad industrial engineering and associated communities.

DEVS Modelling and Simulation

i3m2009 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:59:03 +0000

DEVS is a well-known modelling formalism for the description of discrete (and distributed) systems. The methodology is well-founded in mathematical theories and has been efficiently used in many real-world applications.
This track aims at showing recent original research results, methodologies, tools and significant practical applications, related to DEVS based modelling and simulation.

Overall objectives of the track

Hybrid Methods and Tools for Decision Making in VRP

i3m2009 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:51:04 +0000

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a complex combinatorial optimization problem which constitutes an important industrial and social issue: that of constructing routes for vehicles to visit a set of customers at minimum cost, minimizing its environmental impact of the resulting fuel consumption, as well as other human costs, which are added to the congestion problem.

Optimization Methods and Simulation Tools for Dynamic Systems

i3m2009 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:41:48 +0000

Many industrial and production problems have been studied by a variety of research teams, some of which have focused on optimization methods and others on simulation. This has changed over recent years and nowadays optimization and simulation methods are closely linked; an approach that brings a lot of benefits. These two areas have been linked in different ways. We have opted to use optimization within a simulation framework.

Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems

i3m2009 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:47:29 +0000

Complex systems have become ubiquitous and indispensable for society; telecommunication networks, computers, transporting vehicles, offshore structures, nuclear power plants, and electrical appliances are well known examples. Thus, the design of reliable systems and the determination of their availability are both very important tasks for managers and engineers, given that reliability and availability (R&A) have a strong relationship to other concepts such as quality and safety.

Simulation in Healthcare

emsshealth — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:05:40 +0000

The Simulation in Healthcare track aims to gather and to pool original papers concerning the use of modelling, simulation and artificial intelligence techniques in decision making related to management in healthcare organizations. We welcome papers presenting new concepts, strategies, technologies and case studies, which allow to systematically approach the planning, the distribution of resources and, definitely, the performance optimisation inside healthcare organizations.

Simulation and Artificial Intelligence

emssai — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:01:38 +0000

Simulation relates function to structure. Intelligence swings between function and structure on different abstraction levels. Abstraction capability is what makes the human different in his context. Hierarchy is the syntax of abstraction. Human intelligence is more than adaptability extended to reason; it contains also intention and conscience; it needs the neighborhood of intuition, imagination, and inspiration that form together the human capacity of faith.