|  | The First International Conference on Advances in System Simulation SIMUL 2009  September 20-25, 2009 - Porto, Portugal | 
     
     
     SIMUL Advisory Chairs
     Petre Dini, Cisco Systems,  Inc.,  USA  /   Concordia University,  Canada
     Jack P.C.  Kleijnen,  Tilburg   University  (UvT), The   Netherlands
     Guodong Shao, National  Institute of Standards and   Technology-Gaithersburg,   USA
     Henry Wynn,  London     School of Economics,   UK
     Andrea Saltelli, European  Commission/Joint Research Centre-Ispra,   Italy
     SIMUL  2009 Research-Industry Chairs 
      Jan Cuřín, IBM Research,   Prague,  Czech Republic
       Robert de Souza, The Logistics Institute - Asia   Pacific,  Singapore
       Ann  Dunkin,  Hewlett-Packard,  USA
       Tejas R. Gandhi,   Virtua  Health-Marlton,  USA
     SIMUL 2009 Technical Program Committee
     Chairs:
       William E. Biles,   University of Louisville,  USA
     Ken Hawick,  Massey    University   -   Albany,  New Zealand
     Lars Mönch,   University of  Hagen,  Germany
      William E. Biles, University of Louisville, USA
       Shi-Chung Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
       Argon Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
       Hongmei Chi, Florida A&M University, USA
       Duilio Curcio, University of Calabria - Rende (CS), Italy
       Jan Curín, IBM Research, Prague, Czech Republic
       Berna Dengiz, Baskent University-Ankara, Turkey
       Luis Antonio de Santa-Eulalia, FORAC&CIRRELT/Université Laval, Canada
       Robert de Souza, The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, Singapore
       Ann Dunkin, Hewlett-Packard, USA
       Pierre L'Ecuyer, CIRRELT, GERAD, and DIRO / Université de Montréal, Canada
       Roland Ewald, University of  Rostock, Germany
       Paul Fishwick, University of Florida-Gainesville, USA
       Ian Flood, University of Florida, USA
       Tejas R. Gandhi, Virtua Health-Marlton, USA
       Yan Gu, Auburn University, USA
       Ken Hawick, Massey University - Albany, New Zealand
       Cathal Heavey, University of Limerick, Ireland
       Jan Himmelspach, University of Rostock, Germany
       David Holland, CSC/North American Public Sector  - Arlington, USA
       Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
       Matthias Jeschke, University of Rostock, Germany
       Jack P.C. Kleijnen, Tilburg University (UvT), The Netherlands
       Peter Laborczi, Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research - Budapest, Hungary
       SangHyun Lee, University of Alberta-Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
       Tae-Eog Lee, KAIST, Korea
       Fedor Lehocki, Slovak University of Technology -  Bratislava, Slovak Republic
       Francesco Longo, University of Calabria - Rende (CS), Italy
       Malcolm Yoke Hean Low, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
       Nuno Melao, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa  - Viseu, Portugal
       Yuri  Merkuryev,   Riga Technical  University,  Latvia
       Lars Mönch, University of Hagen, Germany
       Muaz A Niazi, University of Stirling, Scotland/UK
       Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
       Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and Lund University, Sweden
       Acácio  M.O. Porta Nova, Instituto Superior  Técnico-Lisboa,    Portugal
       Vittal Prabhu, Pennsilvania State University - University Park, USA
       Roberto Revetria, DIPTEM/University of Genoa, Italy
       José A. Rojas, Universidad del Turabo-Gurabo,  Puerto Rico
       Angel  Ruiz, Université Laval, Canada
       Andrea Saltelli, European Commission/Joint  Research Centre-Ispra, Italy
       Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
       Guodong Shao, National Institute of Standards and Technology-Gaithersburg, USA
       Diglio A. Simoni, RTI International -  Research Triangle Park, USA
       Vassili Toropov, University of Leeds, UK
       Alexander Verbraeck,  Delft   University  of  Technology, The   Netherlands
       Shengyong Wang, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
       Edward Williams, PMC-Dearborn, USA
       Shengnan Wu, University of Pittsburgh, USA
       Henry Wynn, London School of Economics, UK
       Yiping Yao, National University of Defense Technology-Changsha, China
       Ziliang Zong, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA