Prof. Hans Vangheluwe

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Institutions: University of Antwerp (Belgium) and McGill University, Montréal (Canada)

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Dr. Vangheluwe is a Full Professor in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University (Canada) and an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha, China. He heads the Modelling, Simulation and Design (MSDL) research lab.

He has been the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects focused on the development of a multi-formalism theory and enabling technology for Modelling and Simulation. Some of this work has led to the WEST++ tool, which was commercialised for use in the design and optimization of bioactivated sludge Waste Water Treatment Plants.

He was the co-founder and coordinator of the European Union's ESPRIT Basic Research Working Group 8467 ``Simulation in Europe'', a founding member of the Modelica Design Team, and currently the chair of COST Action IC1404 Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems (MPM4CPS). He is an advisor to national and international granting agencies in Europe and North America.

In a variety of projects, often with industrial partners, he develops and applies the model-based theory and techniques of Multi-Paradigm Modelling (MPM). His current interests are in domain-specific modelling and simulation, including the development of graphical user interfaces for multiple platforms. The MSDL's tool AToMPM (A Tool for Multi-Paradigm Modelling), developed in collaboration with Prof. Eugene Syriani uses meta-modelling and graph transformation to specify and generate domain-specific environments. Recently, he has been active in the design of Automotive applications.

Prof. Vasco Amaral

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Institution: NOVA-LINCS FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

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Dr. Amaral is an Assistant Professor at FCT/UNL and full member of the CITI (Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies) Portuguese Research Institution.

He holds a PhD. from the University of Mannheim in Germany, worked in the past as software engineer on High Energy Physics Computing and Very Large Databases at CERN (Switzerland), DESY (Germany), and LIP (Portugal). Over the last years, he has worked on the general topic of Software Language Engineering, focused on the use of Model-Driven Development (MDD) approaches, at both the Foundations and Application level.

Dr. Amaral's research is currently focused on the topics of Verification, Model Composition and Transformations, Multi-Paradigm Modeling, DSL Engineering approaches, DSL Experimental Evaluation, and MDD education. He is the organizer of several events such as MPM@MODELS, PPPJ, INFORUM and has served in the past as part of the scientific Committee of events and journals such as ICEIS, DEXA, BIRD, ANT, ISDTA, Journal of Visual Languages Computing and MODEVVA@MODELS.