35th Anniversary DBSS Symposium - Simulation after the restart
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Antoni Guasch Petit, Polytechnic University of Catalunya
Simulation: A Technique For Understanding and Improvement
Antoni Guash is a research engineer specializing in the Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, especially in the simulation of discrete and continuous events of industrial processes. He is a doctor of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and a specialized professor in the departments of Systems Engineering, Automation and Industrial Computing. He has led more than 40 projects for the aerospace, nuclear, textile, steel, automotive, transport and mobility sectors. Professor Guasch has been a visiting professor at the State University of California in 1990. He currently directs the development of tooPath, a system for tracking mobile devices. The core of this tracking system is used in a web service developed in inLab for Alstom and that monitors the position and speed of high-speed trains in Spain and monitors its alarms.
Dr. Miguel Mujica Mota, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Logistics Reimagined: The Role of Simulation in Modern Transport
Dr. Miguel Mujica Mota is an associate Professor at the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and the Scientific director for Europe of the International Group on Aviation and Multimodal Transport (www.igamt.eu). He holds a PhD in informatics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a PhD in operations research from the National University of Mexico. He is the current president of EUROSIM (www.eurosim.info) the Federation of Simulation Societies in Europe and the Chair of the Dutch Benelux Simulation Society (www.DutchBSS.org),. He is the co-author of four books and has published more than one hundred scientific papers and general-public-oriented ones.
He has participated in several international projects for industry and academia funded privately and by public offices like European Commission or World Bank. He also does aviation-related consultancy worldwide. Dr. Mujica Mota has given training in aviation modelling, simulation, and optimization in different countries for industrial and academic audiences. He has published studies on operational aspect of airports like emissions, efficiency, and capacity. Currently he is doing research in the Aviation Network of Mexico City and the Multi-airport System of North Holland among other activities.
Modelling and Simulation and Beyond
Prof. Emilio Jimenez studied Industrial Engineering (Computer Science, Electronics and Automation specialty) by the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and in 2001 presented his PhD thesis about Industrial Automation based on Discrete event systems and Petri nets, in the University of La Rioja (Spain), where he works since 1998, presently as full Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and the System Engineering and Automation division (coordinator).
Currently he is Director of the Master on Industrial Engineering at the University of La Rioja, where he is also head of the official research group on Modeling and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Coordinator of the Spanish national group on Modeling Simulation and Optimization (belonging to the Spanish Committee on Automation, of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC), member of the Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Technical Committee (TC 1.3) of IFAC, and President for the period 2016-2019 of EUROSIM, the Federation of European Simulation Societies.
His research areas include modeling and simulation, applied mathematics, factory automation, production and logistic systems, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and environmental impact. In these areas he has advised several PhD thesis (25), collaborated in numerous Patents (more than 60), published several papers in JCR Journals (68) and important conferences (more than 200), from different national and European research projects (more than 40), and has organized important international scientific conferences and collaborated in many others (EMSS, Eurosim,…), mainly related to his main research area, Modeling and Simulation, in which he has received several awards for his research works.
Simulation of The Impact on Energy Consumption of Urban Passenger Transport
Idalia Flores de la Mota holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, UNAM. Her research focuses on optimization and simulation applied to industrial and transportation processes. With an outstanding academic career, she has served on various editorial and scientific committees and has been invited to speak at international conferences. She has received prestigious awards, including the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and the Aurelio Benassini Vizcaíno Distinguished Chair. Her work is widely published, encompassing numerous books and articles in high-impact scientific journals.
Modeling and Simulation to Support the U-Space concept of Operations
The research activities of Prof. Juan José Ramos have been conducted primarily at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), focusing on modeling, simulation, and optimization applied to the industrial sector, particularly in improving logistics processes in production and transportation. Prof. Ramos has participated in various projects in industrial engineering and architecture, including national, regional, and European research initiatives.
Between 2004 and 2008, Prof. Ramos coordinated the Emerging Research Group LOGISIM: Modelatge i Simulació de Sistemes Logístics, which was officially recognized as a consolidated group in 2009. The simulation and optimization techniques developed throughout his career have consistently addressed real-world industrial challenges, particularly in logistics—highly complex and critical systems essential for industrial competitiveness. These efforts have resulted in successful knowledge transfer, leading to solutions and products currently utilized by companies.
Due to industrial confidentiality agreements regarding data and results, the innovation generated through this research has often not been documented in scientific publications. However, the impact of these contributions has been certified by the companies where the methodologies were implemented, including AENA, Boeing, Nortia, Swissport, ISDEFE, and INTA, among others.
In recent years, Prof. Ramos has focused on applying causal modeling and optimization algorithms to develop decision-support tools for planning and scheduling activities. This expertise has been applied to service sectors such as healthcare, airport management, air traffic management (ATM), and unmanned traffic management (UTM). He has also served as a scientific advisor for two Horizon 2020 (H2020) projects, EuroDRONE and INTERFACING, and contributed to the design of several commercial applications developed by Aslogic, a technology-based company (EBT) affiliated with the UAB.