research

Keywords that describe my research interests: simulation, digital twins, data-driven simulation, stochastic models, modelling, performance, performability, formal systems, energy performance, buildings, decision support systems, etc.

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):

Publications

Showing 1-20 of 315 publications
Title Year Cited by
A Framework for Data-Driven Digital Twins of Smart Manufacturing Systems
J Friederich, DP Francis, S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
Computers in Industry, 2022
2022 385
Leveraging the capabilities of industry 4.0 for improving energy efficiency in smart factories
N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, S Lazarova-Molnar
IEEE Access 7, 18008-18020, 2019
2019 235
Data-Driven Decision Support in Livestock Farming for Improved Animal Health, Welfare and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Overview and Challenges
P Niloofar, DP Francis, S Lazarova-Molnar, A Vulpe, MC Vochin, G Suciu, ...
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 190, 2021
2021 203
SmartCityWare: A service-oriented middleware for cloud and fog enabled smart city services
N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, I Jawhar, S Lazarova-Molnar, S Mahmoud
IEEE Access 5, 17576-17588, 2017
2017 185
Digital twin for smart manufacturing: the simulation aspect
G Shao, S Jain, C Laroque, LH Lee, P Lendermann, O Rose, ...
2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2085-2098, 2019
2019 168
Simulation and modeling efforts to support decision making in healthcare supply chain management
E AbuKhousa, J Al-Jaroodi, S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
The Scientific World Journal 2014 (1), 354246, 2014
2014 138
Reliability assessment of manufacturing systems: A comprehensive overview, challenges and opportunities
J Friederich, S Lazarova-Molnar
Journal of Manufacturing Systems 72, 38-58, 2024
2024 131
Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Smart Buildings: State of the Art, Trends and Challenges
S Lazarova-Molnar, HR Shaker, N Mohamed, BN Jørgensen
3rd MEC International Conference on Big Data and Smart City (ICBDSC 2016), 2016
2016 105
The Proxel-Based Method: Formalisation, Analysis and Applications
S Lazarova-Molnar
Universitätsbibliothek, 2005
2005 96
Protein-protein interaction based on pairwise similarity
N Zaki, S Lazarova-Molnar, W El-Hajj, P Campbell
BMC bioinformatics 10 (1), 150, 2009
2009 92
Validation of Digital Twins: Challenges and Opportunities
EY Hua, S Lazarova-Molnar, DP Francis
2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2022
2022 77
Generative adversarial network for improving deep learning based malware classification
Y Lu, J Li, S Lazarova-Molnar (Proceedings Editor)
2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 584-593, 2019
2019 70
Device-Level Majority von Neumann Multiplexing
V Beiu, W Ibrahim, S Lazarova-Molnar
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 471-479, 2009
2009 69
Agent-based digital twins (ABM-DT) in synchromodal transport and logistics: The fusion of virtual and pysical spaces
T Ambra, C Macharis, S Lazarova-Molnar (Proceedings Editor)
2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 159-169, 2020
2020 62
Applications of Integrated IoT-Fog-Cloud Systems to Smart Cities: A Survey
N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, S Lazarova-Molnar, I Jawhar
Electronics 10 (23), 2918, 2021
2021 58
Hybrid modelling and simulation (M&S): driving innovation in the theory and practice of M&S
N Mustafee, A Harper, BS Onggo, ...
2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 3140-3151, 2020
2020 58
Agent based simulation of bot disinformation maneuvers in Twitter
DM Beskow, KM Carley, S Lazarova-Molnar (Proceedings Editor)
2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 750-761, 2019
2019 57
Reliability assessment in the context of industry 4.0: data as a game changer
S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
Procedia Computer Science 151, 691-698, 2019
2019 57
Collaborative data analytics for smart buildings: opportunities and models
S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
Cluster Computing 22 (Suppl 1), 1065-1077, 2019
2019 49
On the Adoption and Deployment of Secure and Privacy-Preserving IIoT in Smart Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Guide with Recent Advances
S Abdullahi, S Lazarova-Molnar
International Journal of Information Security 24 (1), 53, 2025
2025 44

Citations

All Since 2019
Citations 5,059 3,806
h-index 35 29
i10-index 128 98