My research is in the domain of modelling and simulation, focusing on improving its methodology, and making it more automated and data-driven, as well as developing new application areas. Here is a list of my publications (for more up-to-date publication list, check my Google Scholar profile):
2024
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Reliability Assessment of Manufacturing Systems: A Comprehensive Overview, Challenges and Opportunities, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Elsevier, December 2023. (IF 12.1)
2023
Parisa Niloofar, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Drisya Thumba, and Kamrul Islam Shahin: A Conceptual Framework for Holistic Assessment of Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Livestock Farming, Ecological Indicators, Elsevier, October 2023. (IF 6.9)
Parisa Niloofar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Data-Driven Extraction and Analysis of Repairable Fault Trees from Time Series Data, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), Elsevier, April 2023. (IF 8.665)
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: PySPN: An Extendable Python Library for Modeling & Simulation of Stochastic Petri Nets, 15th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUtools 2023), December 2023.
Parisa Niloofar, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Femi Omitaomu, Haowen Xu, Xueping Li: A General Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Cognitive Digital Twins, 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2023.
Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Uncovering Competitor Pricing Patterns in the Danish Pharmaceutical Market via Subsequence Time Series Clustering: A Case Study, 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2023.
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Framework for Validating Data-Driven Discrete-Event Simulation Models of Cyber-Physical Production Systems, 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2023.
Rob Bemthuis, Ruben Govers, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Using Process Mining for Face Validity Assessment in Agent-based Simulation Models: An Exploratory Case Study, 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2023), November 2023.
Rob Bemthuis and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: An Approach for Face Validity Assessment of Agent-Based Simulation Models through Outlier Detection with Process Mining, 27th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations Computing (EDOC 2023), November 2023.
Parisa Niloofar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Learning Temporal Truth Tables of Dynamic Fault Trees From Time Series Data on Faults, The 7th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS 2023), November 2023.
Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards Developing an Agent-Based Model of Price Competition in the European Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade Market, European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, September 2023.
Jonas Friederich, Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Predictive Process Monitoring for Prediction of Remaining Cycle Time in Automated Manufacturing: A Case Study, The 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) (ETFA 2023), September 2023.
Jonas Friederich, Wentong Cai, Boon Ping Gan, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Equipment-centric Data-driven Reliability Assessment of Complex Manufacturing Systems, Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, June 2022.
Kamrul Shahin, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Parisa Niloofar: Multi-objective Decision Support Tool for Sustainable Livestock Farming, 8th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech 2023), June 2023.
Nader Mohamed, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: Digital Twins for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing, 2023 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), April 2022.
Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Agent-based Simulation of the Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade Market: A Case Study, The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Networks (ANT), Procedia Computer Science, April 2023.
2022
Jonas Friederich, Deena P. Francis, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: A Framework for Data-Driven Digital Twins of Smart Manufacturing Systems, Computers in Industry, Elsevier, 2022. (IF 11.245)
Drisya Alex Thumba, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Parisa Niloofar: Comparative evaluation of data requirements and level of decision support provided by decision support tools for reducing livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions, Journal of Cleaner Production (2022): 133886, 2022. (IF 11.072)
Salah Bouktif, Ali Ouni and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards A Rigorous Consideration of Occupant Behaviour of Residential Households for Effective Electrical Energy Savings: An Overview, MDPI Energies, 2022. (IF 3.252)
Ki-Hwan Bae, Navonil Mustafee and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Hybrid modeling of collaborative freight transportation planning using agent-based simulation, auction-based mechanisms, and optimization, SIMULATION (2022). (IF 1.699)
Parisa Niloofar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Collaborative Data-driven Reliability Analysis of Multi-state Fault Trees, Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2022. (IF 2.021)
Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards Agent-based Simulation of the Parallel Trading Market of Pharmaceuticals, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom’22), December 2022.
Rob Bemthuis and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Discovering Agent Models using Process Mining: Initial Approach and a Case Study, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom’22), December 2022.
Aske Lorenz, Bende Siewertsen, Victor Kyhe Clemmensen, Josephine Blaamann Petersen, Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Vibration Data Analysis for Fault Detection in Manufacturing Systems – A Systematic Literature Review, The 17th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, December 2022.
Edward Y. Hua, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Deena P. Francis: Validation of Digital Twins: Challenges and Opportunities, Winter Simulation Conference 2022, December 2022. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Parisa Niloofar, Hossein Haghbin and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Proxel-based Simulation of Fault Trees in R, Winter Simulation Conference 2022, December 2022. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Data-driven Reliability Modeling of Smart Manufacturing Systems using Process Mining, Winter Simulation Conference 2022, December 2022. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Parisa Niloofar, Hossein Haghbin and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: ftaproxim – R Package for Proxel-based Simulation of Fault Trees: A Case Study, The 6th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, November 2022.
Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: The Relationship Between Agent-based Simulation and Game Theory for the Case of Parallel Trade, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA 2022), November 2022.
Farag Sallabi and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Teaching Modeling, Simulation, and Performance Evaluation Course Online with Jupyter Notebook: Course Development and Lessons Learned, 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2022.
Jonas Friederich, Giovanni Lugaresi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Andrea Matta: Process Mining for Dynamic Modeling of Smart Manufacturing Systems: Data Requirements, Procedia CIRP 107 (2022): 546-551, 2022.
2021
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Imad Jawhar: Applications of Integrated IoT-Fog-Cloud Systems to Smart Cities, Electronics: Computer Science & Engineering 10.23 (2021): 2918, 2021. (IF 2.690)
Parisa Niloofar, Deena P. Francis, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius-Constantin Vochin, George Suciu, Mihaela Balanescu, Vasileios Anestis and Thomas Bartzanas: Data-Driven Decision Support in Livestock Farming for Improved Animal Health, Welfare and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Overview and Challenges, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 190 (2021): 106406, 2021. (IF 6.757)
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Requirements for Data-Driven Reliability Modeling and Simulation of Smart Manufacturing Systems, Winter Simulation Conference 2021, December 2021. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Parisa Niloofar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Data-driven Modelling of Repairable Fault Trees from Time Series Data with Missing Information, Winter Simulation Conference 2021, December 2021. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Oskar Skak Kristiansen, Ulrik Sandberg, Casper Hansen, Morten Skovgaard Jensen, Jonas Friederich, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Experimental Comparison of Open Source Discrete-Event Simulation Frameworks, SIMUtools 2021, November 2021.
Parisa Niloofar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Fusion of Data and Expert Knowledge for Fault Tree Reliability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems, The 5th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, November 2021.
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Process Mining for Reliability Modeling of Smart Manufacturing Systems with Limited Data Availability, The International Conference on Internet of Things, Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS2021), November 2021.
Drisya Alex Thumba, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Parisa Niloofar: Estimating Livestock Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Existing Models, Emerging Technologies, and Associated Challenges, In 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), pp. 1-6. IEEE, September 2021.
Sune Chung Jepsen, Torben Worm, Aslak Johansen, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Eun-Young Kang, Jonas Friederich, Juan Esteban Heredia Mena, Reza Soltani, Sune Lundø Sørensen, Jens Hjort Schwee and William Appleton Coolidge: Research Setup Demonstrating Flexible Industry 4.0 Production, 2021 International Symposium ELMAR, September 2021.
Giovanni Lugaresi, Jonas Friederich, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Andrea Matta: Data Requirements for Automated Simulation Modelling of Production Systems with Varying Resource Behaviour, Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference 2021 (ANNSIM 2021), July 2021.
Jonas Friederich and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards Data-Driven Reliability Modeling for Cyber-Physical Production Systems, Procedia Computer Science 151 (2021): 691-698, 2021.
2020
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Parisa Niloofar and Gabor Kevin Barta: Data-Driven Fault Tree Modeling for Reliability Assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems, Winter Simulation Conference 2020, December 2020. (Rank B, CORE 2010)
Sanja Lazarova Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Reliability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems, Simulation for Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering: A Cloud- Based Context, Springer, 2020, pp 385 – 405. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Parisa Niloofar and Gabor Kevin Barta: Data-Driven Fault Tree Modeling for Reliability Assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems, Winter Simulation Conference 2020, December 2020.
Parisa Niloofar, Deena P. Francis, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Alexandru Vulpe, George Suciu and Mihaela Balanescu: Modeling and Simulation for Decision Support in Precision Livestock Farming, Winter Simulation Conference 2020, December 2020.
Deena P. Francis, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Towards Data-Driven Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing, TheInternational Conference on Systems Engineering 2020, December 2020.
Drisya Alex Thumba, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Parisa Niloofar: Data-driven Decision Support Tools for Reducing GHG Emissions from Livestock Production Systems: Overview and Challenges, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020), December 2020.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Parisa Niloofar and Gabor Kevin Barta: Automating Reliability Analysis: Data-driven Learning and Analysis of Multi-state Fault Trees. The 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference Conference (ESREL), November 2020.
Elena Markoska, Subbu Sethuvenkatraman, Nebojsa Jakica and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Are we ready to evaluate the smart readiness of Australian buildings?, The 12th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB-20), September 2020.
2019
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Nader Mohamed and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: Data Analytics Framework for Industry 4.0: Enabling Collaboration for Added Benefits, IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 2019.
Elena Markoska, Aslak Johansen, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Muhyiddine Jradi, and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: Combining Performance Testing and Metadata Models to Support Fault Detection and Diagnostics in Smart Buildings, Applied System Innovation 2, no. 3 (2019): 28, 2019.
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Leveraging the Capabilities of Industry 4.0 for Improving Energy Efficiency in Smart Factories, IEEE Access, Special Session on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2019.
Zeyu Liu, Xueping Li, Anahita Khnojandi and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: On the Extension of Schelling\’s Segregation Model, Winter Simulation Conference 2019, December 2019.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Xueping Li: Deriving Simulation Models from Data: Steps of Simulation Studies Revisited, Winter Simulation Conference 2019, December 2019.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: The Synergy of Simulation and Time Series Forecasting for Live Performance Testing of Smart Buildings, The 21st International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2019), December 2019.
Elena Markoska, Nebojsa Jakica, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Mikkel K. Kragh: Assessment of Building Intelligence Requirements for Real Time Performance Testing in Smart Buildings, In 2019 4th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Usability Requirements for Smart Buildings’ Performance Testing Solutions: A Survey, 2019 Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), pp. 265-270. IEEE, 2019.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: LEAF: Live building performance evaluation framework, 2019 Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), pp. 306-311. IEEE, 2019.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Reliability Assessment in the Context of Industry 4.0: Data as a Game Changer, Procedia Computer Science 151 (2019): 691-698, 2019.
2018
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Nader Mohamed, and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: Collaborative Data Analytics for Industry 4.0: Challenges, Opportunities and Models, 2018 Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES), pp. 100-107. IEEE, 2018.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Comparative evaluation of threshold modelling for smart buildings’ performance testing, 2018 Ninth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Workflow for Continuous Performance Testing in Smart Buildings, European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, pp. 54-59. Springer, Cham, 2018.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Nader Mohamed and Elena Markoska: A Zoning Framework for Enhanced Smart Building Automation, 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). IEEE, Gothenburg, December 2018.
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Energy Cloud: Services for Smart Buildings, Sustainable Cloud and Energy Services: Principles and Practices, Springer, 2018, pp 117-134.
Elena Markoska and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards Smart Buildings Performance Testing as a Service, The International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering in conj. with The Third International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2018), Barcelona, Spain, April 2018.
Elena Markoska, Aslak Johansen and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Framework for Fully Automated Performance Testing for Smart Buildings, International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, London, United Kingdom, February 2018.
2017
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: WiP Abstract: Towards a Framework for Comprehensive and Systematic Reliability Evaluation of Building Management Systems, In proc. 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2017) in conjunction with CPS Week, IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 18-21 2017.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Nader Mohamed and Hamid Reza Shaker: Reliability Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Holistic Overview and Challenges, In proc. 2017 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES) in conjunction with CPS Week, IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 21 2017.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Halldór Þór Logason, Peter Grønbæk Andersen, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard: Mobile Crowdsourcing of Occupant Feedback in Smart Buildings, to appear in ACM SIGAPP International Journal of Applied Computing Review (ACR), vol. 17, no. 1, 2017.
Claudio Giovanni Mattera, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: A Practical Approach to Validation of Buildings’ Sensor Data: A Commissioning Experience Report, In proc. IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Application Quality Assurance in association with IEEE BigDataService 2017, San Francisco, USA, April 6-10, 2017.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: A Framework for Collaborative Cloud-based Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Smart Buildings, In proc. 7th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’17), IEEE, Sharjah, UAE, April 4-6, 2017.
Nader Mohamed, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: Cloud of Things: Optimizing Smart City Services, In proc. 7th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’17), IEEE, Sharjah, UAE, April 4-6, 2017.
Thomas Heine Rasmussen, Niels Hansen and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Discrete-Event Simulation Tool for Decision Support in Selection of Project Scheduling Strategies, In proc. 7th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’17), IEEE, Sharjah, UAE, April 4-6, 2017.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Towards Collaborative Data Analytics for Smart Buildings, in proc. 8th iCatse Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2017), Springer, Macau, China, March 20-23, 2017.
Hamid Reza Shaker and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A New Data-Driven Controllability Measure with Application in Intelligent Buildings, Elsevier Energy and Buildings, March 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.11.027.
2016
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker, and Nader Mohamed: Reliability of Cyber Physical Systems with Focus on Building Management Systems, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systems (CCN-CPS) in association with IEEE Int’l Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2016), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2016.
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Nader Mohamed, Jamila Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Imad Jawhar: Middleware to Support Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systems (CCN-CPS) in association with IEEE Int’l Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2016), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2016.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Hamid Reza Shaker: A Conceptual Framework for Occupant-Centered Building Management Decision Support System, International Workshop on Computational Sustainability, Technologies and Applications (CoSTA’2016) in conj. with the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE’16, London, United Kingdom, September 2016.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Halldór Þór Logason, Peter Grønbæk Andersen and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard: Mobile Crowdsourcing of Data for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Smart Buildings, ACM 2016 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (ACM RACS 2016), Odense, Denmark, October 2016.
Nader Mohamed, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: SBDaaS: Smart Building Diagnostics as a Service on the Cloud, 2nd Int’l Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG 2016), IEEE, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2016.
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Nader Mohamed, Imad Jawhar and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Software Engineering Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems, 1st IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), Co-located with IEEE Int’l Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 2016.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker, Nader Mohamed and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Smart Buildings: State of the Art, Trends and Challenges, IEEE 3rd MEC International Conference on Big Data and Smart City (ICBDSC 2016), Muscat, Oman, March 2016. (Best Paper Award)
Nader Mohamed, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Jameela Al-Jaroodi: CE-BEMS: A Cloud-Enabled Building Energy Management System, IEEE 3rdMEC International Conference on Big Data and Smart City (ICBDSC 2016), Muscat, Oman, March 2016.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Challenges in the Data Collection for Diagnostics of Smart Buildings, The 7th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2016), Springer, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, February 2016.
2015
Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker and Christian Veje: Challenge: Advancing Energy Informatics to enable Assessable Improvements of Energy Performance in Buildings, The 6th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Bangalore, India, July 2015.
Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Muhyiddine Jradi: On a Categorization Framework for Occupancy Sensing Systems, The 6th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Bangalore, India, July 2015.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Hamid Reza Shaker and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: Commercial Buildings Energy Performance within Context: Occupants in Spotlight, 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2015.
Noha Ramadan, Racha Ajami, Nader Mohamed and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Modeling and Simulation for Enterprise Decision-Making: Successful Projects and Approaches, 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 2015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2015.
Andrzej Olszak, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: Evolution of Feature-Oriented Software: How to Stay on Course and Avoid the Cliffs of Modularity Drift, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag, 2015.
Rabeb Mizouni and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Improving Project Schedule Simulation by Incorporating Human Factors’ Uncertainty and Features’ Priority in Task Modeling, Journal of Software, 2015.
2014
Eman AbuKhousa, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Simulation and Modeling Efforts to Support Decision Making in Healthcare Supply Chain Management, The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 354246.
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Service-Oriented Middleware for Building Collaborative UAVs, Special Issue – Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, April 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s10846-013-9942-3.
2013
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Framework for Enhanced Project Schedules, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation MODSIM2013, Adelaide, Australia, December 2013.
Moumena Chaqfeh, Abderrahmane Lakas, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Performance Modeling of Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Delft, Netherlands, October 2013.
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Failure Impact on Coverage in Linear Wireless Sensor Network, 2013 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Toronto, Canada, July 2013.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Petri Nets Extension to Model State-Varying Failure Rates, Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2013, Toronto, Canada, July 2013.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Discrete-Event Simulation for Design of Evolving Project Schedules, Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2013, Toronto, Canada, July 2013.
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Middleware Requirements for Collaborative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2013.
Maad Shatnawi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nazar Zaki: Modeling and Simulation of Epidemic Spread: Recent Advances, Innovations’13, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013.
Maryam Al Yammahi, Noura Al Kaabi, Noora Al Shehhi and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Intelligent Student Advisor: Mobile Application, Student Poster at Innovations’13, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013.
Ahmed Karam and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Recent Trends in Solving the Deterministic Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem, Innovations’13, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013.
2012
Saiqa Aleem, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Collaborative Business Process Modeling Approaches: A Review, IEEE WETICE 2012 (CoMetS’12), Toulouse, France, June 2012.
Rabeb Mizouni and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Simulation-based Feature Selection for Software Requirements Baseline, Special Issue – Journal of Software 2012.
2011
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: A Simulation-Based Approach to Enhancing Project Schedules by the Inclusion of Remedial Action Scenarios, WSC 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 2011.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Rabeb Mizouni and Nader Kesserwan: A Framework for Enhanced Project Schedule Design to Aid Project Manager’s Decision Making Processes, EMSS 2011, Rome, Italy, September 2011.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Novel Approach to Realistic Modeling and Simulation of State-Varying Failure Rates, EMSS 2011, Rome, Italy, September 2011.
Nazar Zaki, Salah Bouktif and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Combination of Compositional Index and Genetic Algorithm for Predicting Transmembrane Helical Segments, PLoS ONE 6(7): e21821, 2011.
Nazar Zaki, Salah Bouktif and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Genetic Algorithm to Enhance Transmembrane Helices Topology Prediction Using Compositional Index, 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2011), Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16. Preprint, 2011. (Best Paper Award)
2010
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Modeling Human Decision Behaviors for Accurate Prediction of Project Schedule Duration, EOMAS 2010 (in conj. with CAiSE 2010), Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2010.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Floating Task: Introducing and Simulating a Higher Degree of Uncertainty in Project Schedules, IEEE WETICE 2010 (CoMetS’10), Larissa, Greece, June 2010.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Proxel-Based Performability Analysis of Non-Markovian Phased-Mission Systems, Asia Modeling Symposium 2010, May 2010.
2009
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: True State-Space Complexity Prediction: By the Proxel-Based Simulation Method, Innovations’09, December, 2009.
Nazar Zaki, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Wassim El-Hajj, and Piers Campbell: Protein-protein interaction based on pairwise similarity. BMC Bioinformatics 10: (2009).
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2008
Klaithem Nuaimi, Ghaneya Darei, Aysha Shanqeeti, Nouf Zarouni, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Idea Factory: A Brainstorming Support Tool, Innovations’08, December, 2008.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: The Importance of Involvement of New Thinking Techniques in the Classroom, Proc. ICEE 2008, Budapes/Pecs, Hungary, July, 2008.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Valeriu Beiu: Reliability Modeling of Circuits with Multi-State Aging Gates, Proc. SCSC 2008, Edinburgh, UK, June, 2008, pp. 43 – 47.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: State-Dependent Transitions in Discrete Stochastic Models: Deterministic Simulation Approach, Proc. SCSC 2008, Edinburgh, UK, June, 2008, pp. 85 – 90.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Valeriu Beiu: Mapping the Proxel-based Method to Reliability Analysis of Nano-architectures, Proceedings of the UAEU 9th Annual Research Conference ARC-9, Al Ain, UAE, April 21-23, 2008.
2007
Walid Ibrahim, Valeriu Beiu, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Accurate Nano-Circuits Reliability Evaluations Based on Numerical Simulations Combined with Monte Carlo, Proc. IDT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 2007.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: Proxels for Reliability Assessment of Future Nano-Architectures, Proc. Proc. IDT 2007, Cairo, Egypt, December 2007.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: Reliability – The Fourth Optimization Pillar of Nanoelectronics, Proc. ICSPC 2007, Dubai, UAE, November 2007.
Walid Ibrahim, Valeriu Beiu, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Why Nano-DSP Will Be Fan-in Constrained, Proc. ICSPC 2007, Dubai, UAE, November 2007.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Framework for an Expressive Automated Homework Grading System, Proc. IADIS Inter. Conference e-Learning 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: A strategy for reliability assessment of future nano-circuits, Proc. 11th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits 2007, Crete Island, Greece, 2007.
Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Fresh Look at Majority Multiplexing – When Devices Get into the Picture, Proc. 7th Inter. Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2007, Hong Kong, SAR, 2007.
Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: What von Neumann Did Not Say About Multiplexing, Beyond Gate Failures — The Gory Details, Proc. 9th Inter. Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN’2007, June 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 2007.
2006
Fabian Wickborn, Claudia Isensee, Thomas Simon, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: A New Approach for Computing Conditional Probabilities of General Stochastic Processes. 39th Annual Simulation Symposium 2006, Huntsville, AL, USA April 2006.
2005
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: The Proxel-Based Method: Formalisation, Analysis and Applications. PhD Thesis, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. November 2005.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Claudia Isensee, Graham Horton: Phases or Proxels: The Decision Factors. 2nd Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI), 17-19 November 2005, Ohrid, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, Macedonia. November 2005.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxels Practically: The Meaning of the Lifetime Factor. 18th Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2005), SCS European Publishing House, Erlangen, Germany. September 2005.
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Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Description Framework for Proxel-Based Simulation of a General Class of Stochastic Models. Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2005, Philadelphia, USA July 2005.
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Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: A Framework for Performability Modelling Using Proxels. ICMSAO’05, American University of Sharjah, UAE 2005.
Claudia Isensee, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Graham Horton: Combining Proxels and Discrete Phases. ICMSAO’05, American University of Sharjah, UAE 2005.
2004
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation of Stochastic Petri Nets. Simulation und Visualisierung 2004. SCS European Publishing House 2004.
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Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation of a Warranty Model. European Simulation multiconference 2004. SCS European Publishing House 2004.
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2003
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation. Fourth International Conference for Informatics and Information Technology 2003, Bitola, Macedonia 2003.
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation for Fault Tree Analysis. 17. Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2003), SCS European Publishing House 2003.
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Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation of Stochastic Petri Nets Containing Immediate Transitions. On-Site Proceedings of the Satellite Workshop of ICALP 2003 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Forschungsbericht Universität Dortmund. Dortmund 2003.
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Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Graham Horton: An Experimental Study of the Behaviour of the Proxel-Based Simulation Algorithm. Simulation und Visualisierung 2003. SCS European Publishing House 2003.
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Keywords which describe my research interests: proxels, simulation, stochastic models, modelling, performance, performability, formal systems, energy performance, buildings, decision support systems, etc.