Prof. Reggie Davidrajuh’s BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:

Reggie Davidrajuh received a Masters Degree in Control Systems Engineering

and a PhD in Industrial Engineering, both from the Norwegian University of Science

and Technology (NTNU). He is now a Professor of Information Systems at the department

of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

He is the editor of the journal International Journal of Business and Systems Research

and an associate editor of the journal Electronic Government: an International Journal. 

In addition, he serves in the editorial committees of more than 10 journals.

His current research interests include: Discrete-event based Dynamic Systems, and

Distributed Information Systems. His home page is: http://www.davidrajuh.net/reggie

Prof. Reggie Davidrajuh’s lecture abstract:

Subject: Activity-based Modeling (ABM)

This lecture presents an interesting design problem in developing a new tool for discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDS). A new tool known as GPenSIM was developed for modeling and simulation of DEDS; GPenSIM is based on Petri Nets. The design issue this paper talks about is whether to represent resources in DEDS hardwired as a part of the Petri net structure (which is the widespread practice) or to soft code as common variables in the program code. This paper shows that soft coding resources give benefits such as simpler and skinny models.

Time: Wednesday, May 25th of 2011, 09:00-11:00 hrs
Place: Rzeszow University of Technology, Building B, Rm. 107