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 201-220 of 315 publications
Title Year Cited by
A reduced-stiffness method for the transient solution of discrete-time Markov chains
G Horton, S Lazarova-Molnar
Submitted to Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, University of Illinois at …, 2003
2003 3
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation for Economic Markets: A Comprehensive Review of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
R Jamali, S Lazarova-Molnar
Journal of Simulation, 2026
2026 2
A Tutorial on Data-Driven Petri Net Model Extraction and Simulation for Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing
A Khodadadi, A Zare, M Jungmann, M Götz, S Lazarova-Molnar
2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2025
2025 2
Explainability in Digital Twins: Overview and Challenges
M Mahmoud, S Lazarova-Molnar
2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2025
2025 2
Multi-flow Process Mining as an Enabler for Comprehensive Digital Twins of Manufacturing Systems
A Khodadadi, S Lazarova-Molnar
2025 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2025
2025 2
System Variations and Their Impact on the Validation of Digital Twin Models in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments
A Zare, S Lazarova-Molnar
The 30th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2025), 2025
2025 2
Review on Road Traffic Noise Modeling: Embarking on a Machine Learning Odyssey
MB Lin, S Lazarova-Molnar, A Vinel
The 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems …, 2024
2024 2
Learning Temporal Truth Tables of Dynamic Fault Trees From Time Series Data on Faults
P Niloofar, S Lazarova-Molnar
The 7th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS 2023), 2023
2023 2
Towards Developing an Agent-Based Model of Price Competition in the European Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade Market
R Jamali, S Lazarova-Molnar
European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, 200-213, 2023
2023 2
A Framework for Data-Driven Digital Twins of Smart Manufacturing Systems, Computers in Industry
J Friederich, DP Francis, S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
2022 2
ftaproxim - R Package for Proxel-based Simulation of Fault Trees: A Case Study
P Niloofar, H Haghbin, S Lazarova-Molnar
The 6th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, 2022
2022 2
A Workflow for Continuous Performance Testing in Smart Buildings
E Markoska, S Lazarova-Molnar
European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 54-59, 2018
2018 2
Cloud-Fog-Based Smart Grid Model for Efficient Resource Utilization
N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, I Jawhar, S Lazarova-Molnar, S Mahmoud
IEEE Access 5, 17576-17588, 2018
2018 2
Towards a framework for comprehensive and systematic reliability evaluation of building management systems
S Lazarova-Molnar
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 89-89, 2017
2017 2
SmartCityWare: a service-oriented middleware for cloud and fog enabled smart city services. IEEE Access 5: 17576–17588
N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, I Jawhar, S Lazarova-Molnar, S Mahmoud
2017 2
Project Schedule Simulation: Incorporating Human factors’ Uncertainty and Features’ Priority in Task Modeling
R Mizouni, S Lazarova-Molnar
2015 2
Simulation and modeling efforts to support decision making in healthcare supply chain management. Sci World J 2014: 1–16
E AbuKhousa, J Al-Jaroodi, S Lazarova-Molnar, N Mohamed
2014 2
Performance modeling of data dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks
M Chaqfeh, A Lakas, S Lazarova-Molnar
2013 IEEE/ACM 17th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and …, 2013
2013 2
Agent-based modeling and simulation framework for enhanced project schedules
S Lazarova-Molnar
20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation-Adapting to Change …, 2013
2013 2
Phases or Proxels: The Decision Factors
S Lazarova-Molnar, G Horton
2nd Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI), Ohrid, Macedonia. Institute of …, 2005
2005 2

Citations

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