Lecturers
Dr Ken Pierce

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Institution: Newcastle University (United Kingdom)

Short Bio

Ken Pierce is a Research Associate in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University, associated with the AMBER group (advanced model-based engineering) and the CPLab (cyber-physical systems lab). His main interests lie in model-based design and engineering of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), in particular, in developing methods and tools for collaborative modelling and co-simulation, fault tolerance, and design space exploration (DSE). Ken received his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from Newcastle University in 2005, and studied for his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Cliff Jones. His thesis, entitled "Enhancing the Usability of Rely-Guarantee Conditions for Atomicity Refinement", was published in December 2009. He participated in the successful FP7 projects DESTECS and COMPASS between 2010 and 2014. He now works on two H2020 ICT-1 projects: INTO-CPS, a research project that is building a tool chain for CPS design; and CPSE Labs, an innovation project that forms a network of CPS "design centres" across Europe and provides cascading funding for focused experiments in CPS design.


Professor Kuldar Taveter

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Institution: Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

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Prof Dr Kuldar Taveter is a Professor in Software Engineering and Head of the Chair of Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics of Tallinn University of Technology. Jointly with Professor Leon Sterling from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, he has developed a novel methodology and research direction called agent-oriented modelling, which is described in their monograph by MIT Press. Agent-oriented modelling facilitates agile design of distributed socio-technical systems. Prof Taveter led the TTU team in the FP7 project "Modelling crisis management for improved action and preparedness" (CRISMA, 2012-2015) and he currently leads the TTU team in the Horizon 2020 project “Observation capacity mapping in the context of Atmospheric and Climate change monitoring” (GAIA-CLIM). In 2005-2008 he was a research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was working in agent-oriented software engineering. In 1997-2005 Kuldar was employed as a research scientist and project leader at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), which acts as a mediator between academy and industry. His main research areas at VTT were agent-based business process automation and ontologies. In 2011 he spent 8 months as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of South Carolina, USA, doing research work in agent-based crowdsourcing systems. He has about 50 publications and 340 citations by Google Scholar.


Professor Peter Gorm Larsen

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Institution: Aarhus University (Denmark)

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Dr. Peter Gorm Larsen is a professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University, where he leads the software engineering research group. In addition he is the founder of a company called First Time Right Technologies.

After receiving his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark in 1988, he worked in industry before returning to complete an industrial Ph.D. in 1995. In his industry career, as a development engineer and manager, he gave industrial courses all over the world, and saw the technology he developed be applied in areas as diverse as secure message processing and options trading. He returned to academia in 2005.

His prime research goal now is to improve the development of complex mission-critical applications by implementing and applying well-founded technologies, in particular in the design of robust tools that help engineers to leverage models in early design stages to reduce overall product development risk in particular in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems.

He is currently the coordinator of the INTO-CPS Horizon 2020 project. He is the author of more than 100 papers published in journals, books and conference proceedings, and several books and has an h-index at 26.


Professor 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.
 

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The forthcoming MPM4CPS Training School (18 - 21 November 2018) and Closing Conference (22 - 23 November 2018) will take place in Pisa, Italy.