SDU Software Engineering
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University of Southern Denmark

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Curriculum Vitae Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Southern Denmark   CONTACT INFORMATION Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute Faculty of Engineering University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark Tel. +45 40121119  email: sanja@lazarova-molnar.net www: http://www.lazarova-molnar.net   EDUCATION 2002 - 2005  Ph.D. in Computer Science Thesis Title: „The Proxel-Based Method: Formalisation, Analysis and Applications“  Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany   2000 - 2002 M.Sc. in Computational Visualistics Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany    1995 - 2000 Diploma in Computer Science University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia   EMPLOYMENT 2014 - present  Associate Professor Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark   2015 - 2017   Head of Programme, M.Sc. in Software Engineering University of Southern Denmark, Denmark   2006 - 2014     Assistant Professor College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates    2007 - 2010  Visiting Professor Faculty of Informatics, New York University in Skopje, Macedonia    2006 - 2007     Assistant Professor Faculty of Informatics, New York University in Skopje, Macedonia   2001 - 2006 Teaching and Research Assistant (full-time position),  Department of Simulation and Graphics, Faculty of Computer Science, University “Otto-von-Guericke”, Magdeburg, Germany   RESEARCH VISITS Sep 2004 Visiting Researcher, DaimlerChrysler Research, Esslingen, Germany   RESEARCH INTERESTS modeling and simulation,  reliability and performability modeling, decision support systems, project scheduling, artificial intelligence, data science, data-driven fault diagnosis and discovery,  decision support and analysis for energy systems, energy informatics,  energy efficiency of buildings.   TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 - present   Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark; Courses taught: Modeling and Simulation (Fall17, Fall18, Graduate Course) Artificial Intelligence (Spring15, Spring 16, Spring17, Spring18) Statistics and Experimental Methods (Fall14, Fall15 Fall16) Decision Support Systems (Spring16, Graduate Course) Selected Topics in Modeling and Simulation (Spring17, Graduate Course) Supervision of Bachelor Projects and Master Thesis Courses developed:      Decision Support Systems      Selected Topics in Modeling and Simulation      Artificial Intelligence,fully  (lectures+exercises) Experimental Methods and Statistics, fully  (lectures+exercises) Supervision of PhD students:      Elena Markoska Co-Supervision of PhD students:      Claudio Giovanni Mattera       2006 - 2014 Assistant Professor at UAE University;  Courses taught: Human-Computer Interaction (Fall13, Spring14), Database Systems(Fall06, Fall12, Spring13, Fall13), Modeling, Simulation and Performance Evaluation (Fall2010, Fall2011, Graduate Course), Computing Systems(Spring07), Information Systems Basics (Spring07),  Algorithms and Problem Solving(Fall07, Spring08, Fall08), Modeling and Simulation (Spring10, Fall10, Spring11, Fall11, Spring12, Spring13),  Artificial Intelligence (Spring12, Fall12), IT Core Exhibition (Fall07, Spring08, Fall08), Senior Exhibition/Graduation Project (Almost every term), Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall08, Spring09, Fall09), and Object-Oriented Programming (Spring08, Spring10, Fall10). Courses developed: Modeling, Simulation and Performance Evaluation (graduate course), fully (lectures + exercises) Modeling and Simulation, fully (lectures + labs) Human-Computer Interaction, developed new lecture materials and slides Artificial Intelligence, partially modified lectures (more than 50%) + fully developed new labs Object-Oriented Programming, partially modified lecture materials + fully developed new labs Data Structures and Algorithms, partially modified lecture materials + fully developed new labs Courses coordinated: Database Systems Data Structures and Algorithms Modeling and Simulation 2006 - 2007 Assistant Professor at University of New York in Skopje;  Courses taught: Data Structures and Algorithms in C++,(Spring06) and Web-based Database Systems (Spring06). 2002 - 2006   Teaching Assistant at University “Otto-von-Guericke”, Magdeburg; Courses taught: Introduction to Simulation (Winter02, Winter03, Winter04, Winter05, Winter06), Advanced Discrete Modeling (Summer03, Summer04, Summer05), Simulation Project (Summer03, Summer04, Summer05), Advanced Topics in Simulation (Summer03, Summer04, Summer05), and Masters’ Thesis’ Supervisor of 2 students: Prasanna Balaprakash, and Lakshmi Dhevi Baskar.         SCHOLARSHIPS 2001 - 2002 Scholarship for talented graduate students, Ministry of Education, Macedonia 2000 Scholarship for talented students, Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 1996 - 2000  Scholarship for talented students, Ministry of Education, Macedonia QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS Languages  Macedonian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Danish (good), Croatian (fluent), Serbian (fluent), Bulgarian (passive i.e. understanding)   Programming C/C++, Pascal, Lisp, Delphi, Java, SIMPLEX3, Python, Perl, R   PUBLICATIONS ca. 600 citations (acc. to Google Scholar) h-index: 14   REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES 1.        Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Energy cloud: services for smart buildings, Sustainable Cloud and Energy Services: Principles and Practice, Springer, 2018, pp 117-134. 2.        Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Collaborative Data Analytics for Smart Buildings: Opportunities and Models, Special Issue on Advanced Cloud computing and Security, Cluster Computing, Springer, 2017. (IF 2.040) 3.        Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Imad Jawhar:Middleware Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 2017. 4.        Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Sara Mahmoud:SmartCityWare: A Service-Oriented Middleware for Cloud and Fog Enabled Smart City Services, IEEE Access, Special Issue on The New Era of Smart Cities: Sensors, Communication Technologies and Applications, 2017.(IF 3.244) 5.        Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Halldór þór Logason, Peter Grønbæk Andersen, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard: Mobile Crowdsourcing of Occupant Feedback in Smart Buildings, ACM SIGAPP International Journal of Applied Computing Review (ACR), vol. 17, no. 1, 2017. 6.        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. (IF 4.067) 7.        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, pp 183-201. 8.        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, pp 939-960. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 9.         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. (IF 1.730) 10.      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, pp 309-321. (IF 0.932) 11.     Rabeb Mizouni and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Simulation-based Feature Selection for Software Requirements Baseline, Special Issue - Journal of Software, Vol. 7, Issue No. 7, July 2012, pp 1440-1450. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 12.     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. (IF 4.411, Rank A, ERA Feb 2010) Nazar Zaki, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Wassim El-Hajj, and Piers Campbell: Protein-protein interaction based on pairwise similarity. BMC Bioinformatics 10: (2009), DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-150. (IF 3.428, Highly Accessed)   BOOK CHAPTERS 1.        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. 2.        Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Modeling Human Decision Behaviors for Accurate Prediction of Project Schedule Duration, in Joseph Barjis (Ed.): Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 1, Volume 63, Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, 2010, pp. 179-195.  3.        Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, , in J. R. R. Dopico, J. Dorado, and A. Pazos (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, IGI Global, USA (Hershey, PA) and UK (London), 2009, Chapter 72, pp 471-479.  4.        Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, What von Neumann did not say about multiplexing beyond gate failures—The gory details, in F. Sandoval et al. (Eds.): Computational and Ambient Intelligence, Springer LNCS 4507, 2007, pp. 487–496.   REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS 1.         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. 2.         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. 3.         Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: On the Complexity of Smart Buildings Occupant Behavior: Risks and Opportunities, 8th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2017), Skopje, Macedonia, September 2017. 4.         Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Elena Markoska and Hamid Reza Shaker: Towards Systematic Reliability Modeling of Smart Buildings, accepted at Winter Simulation Conference 2017 (WSC 2017), Las Vegas, USA, December 2017. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 5.         Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Imad Jawhar and Sara Mahmoud:A Service-Oriented Middleware for Cloud of Things and Fog Computing Supporting Smart City Applications, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (IEEE SCI 2017), East Bay of Silicon Valley, California, USA, August 4-8, 2017. 6.         Nader Mohamed and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Towards Service-Oriented Middleware for Cyber Physical Systems, In proc. IEEE Int’l Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber Physical Systems (CCN-CPS) in association with The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 5-8, 2017. 7.         Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: WiP Abstract: Towards a Framework for Comprehensive and Systematic Reliability Evaluation of Building Management Systems, In proc. 8thACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2017) in conjunction with CPS Week, IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 18-21 2017. 8.         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. 9.         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. 10.      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. 11.      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. 12.      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. 13.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Towards Collaborative Data Analytics for Smart Buildings, In proc. 8thInternational Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2017), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Springer, Macau, China, March 20-23, 2017, pp 459-466. 14.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Hamid Reza Shaker and Nader Mohamed: Reliability of Cyber Physical Systems with Focus on Building Management Systems, In proc. 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 9-11, 2016. 15.      Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Imad Jawhar: Middleware to Support Cyber-Physical Systems, In proc. 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 9-11, 2016.  16.      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 2016Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems(ACM RACS 2016), Odense, Denmark, October 2016. 17.      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. 18.      Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Software Engineering Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE SmartSys’16, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 2016.  19.      Nader Mohamed, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Jameela Al-Jaroodi:SBDaaS: Smart Building Diagnostics as a Service on the Cloud, IEEE 2ndInternational Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG 2016), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2016. 20.      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 3rdMEC International Conference on Big Data and Smart City (ICBDSC 2016), Muscat, Oman, March 2016.   21.      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. 22.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Challenges in the Data Collection for Diagnostics of Smart Buildings, The 7thInternational Conference on Information Science And Applications (ICISA 2016), Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, February 2016, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (Springer LNEE)(2016), pp 941-951. 23.      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 6thInternational Conference on Future EnergySystems (ACM e-Energy 2015), Bangalore, India, July 2015, pp 77-82. 24.      Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Muhyiddine Jradi: On a Categorization Framework for Occupancy Sensing Systems, The 6thInternational Conference on Future EnergySystems (ACM e-Energy 2015), Bangalore, India, July 2015. 25.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Hamid Reza Shaker and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen: Commercial Buildings Energy Performance within Context:Occupants in Spotlight, 4thInternational Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2015.  26.      Noha Ramadan, Racha Ajami, Nader Mohamed and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Modeling and Simulation for Enterprise Decision-Making: Successful Projects and Approaches, 5thInternational Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 2015 (IEOM 2015), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2015. 27.      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, pp 887-893. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 28.      Moumena Chaqfeh, Abderrahmane Lakas, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: PerformanceModeling of Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013), Delft, Netherlands, October 2013, pp 135-141. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 29.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Petri Nets Extension to Model State-Varying Failure Rates, Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2013 (SCSC 2013), Toronto, Canada, July 2013. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 30.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Discrete-Event Simulation for Design of Evolving Project Schedules, Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2013 (SCSC 2013), Toronto, Canada, July 2013. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 31.       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 (SPECTS 2013), Toronto, Canada, July 2013, pp188-195. 32.      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 (ICUAS 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2013, pp 1051-1060. 33.      Maad Shatnawi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nazar Zaki: Modeling and Simulation of Epidemic Spread, Recent Advances, 8thIEEE Innovations in Information Technology Conference (Innovations’13), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013, pp 237-242.  34.     Maryam Al Yammahi‎, Noura Al Kaabi‎, Noora Al Shehhi and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Intelligent Student Advisor: Mobile Application, Student Poster at 8thIEEE Innovations in Information Technology Conference (Innovations’13), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013.  35.      Ahmed Karam and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Recent Trends in Solving the Deterministic Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem, 8thIEEE Innovations in Information Technology Conference (Innovations’13), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, March, 2013, pp 124-129.  36.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: State-Varying Failure Rates: A Step Further from Time-Varying Failure Rates, Winter Simulation Conference 2012 (WSC 2012),  Berlin, Germany, December 2012 (accepted as poster). (Rank B, CORE 2010) 37.     Saiqa Aleem, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Nader Mohamed: Collaborative Business Process Modeling Approaches. A Review, IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises 2012 (WETICE-2012), IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling & Simulation (CoMetS'12), Toulouse, France, June 2012, pp 274-279. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 38.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: A Simulation-Based Approach to Enhancing Project Schedules by the Inclusion of Remedial Action Scenarios, Winter Simulation Conference 2011 (WSC 2011), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 2011, 761-772. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 39.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Rabeb Mizouni and Nader Kesserwan: A Framework for Enhanced Project Schedule Design to Aid Project Manager’s Decision Making Processes, European Modeling and Simulation Symposium 2011 (EMSS 2011), Rome, Italy, September 2011, pp 516-525. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 40.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Novel Approach to Realistic Modeling and Simulation of State-Varying Failure Rates, European Modeling and Simulation Symposium 2011 (EMSS 2011), Rome, Italy, September 2011, pp 526-534. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 41.     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, 2011, pp 347-354. (Rank A, CORE 2010) 42.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Modeling Human Decision Behaviors for Accurate Prediction of Project Schedule Duration, Proc. Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation: 6th International Workshop, EOMAS 2010 (in conj. with CAiSE 2010), Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2010, pp 179-195. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 43.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Rabeb Mizouni: Floating Task: Introducing and Simulating a Higher Degree of Uncertainty in Project Schedules, IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises 2010 (WETICE-2010),IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling & Simulation (CoMetS'10), Larissa, Greece, June 2010, pp 136-141. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 44.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Proxel-Based Performability Analysis of Non-Markovian Phased-Mission Systems, Asia Modeling Symposium 2010 (AMS 2010), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, May 2010, pp 585-590. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 45.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: True State-Space Complexity Prediction:  By the Proxel-Based Simulation Method, 6thIEEE Innovations in Information Technology Conference (Innovations’09), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December, 2009.  46.     Klaithem Nuaimi, Ghaneya Darei, Aysha Shanqeeti, Nouf Zarouni, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Idea Factory: A Brainstorming Support Tool, 5thIEEE Innovations in Information Technology Conference (Innovations’08), December, 2008. 47.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: The Importance of Involvement of New Thinking Techniques in the Classroom, Proc. International Conference on Engineering Education 2008 (ICEE2008), Budapes/Pecs, Hungary, July, 2008. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 48.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Valeriu Beiu: Reliability Modeling of Circuits with Multi-State Aging Gates, Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2008 (SCSC’08), Edinburgh, UK, June, 2008, pp. 43 - 47. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 49.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: State-Dependent Transitions in Discrete Stochastic Models: Deterministic Simulation Approach, Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2008 (SCSC’08), Edinburgh, UK, June, 2008, pp. 85 - 90. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 50.     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. 51.     Walid Ibrahim, Valeriu Beiu, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Accurate Nano-Circuits Reliability Evaluations Based on Numerical Simulations Combined with Monte Carlo, Proc. 2nd International Design and Test Workshop 2007 (IDT 2007), Cairo, Egypt, 2007, pp 139-144. 52.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: Proxels for Reliability Assessment of Future Nano-Architectures, Proc. 2nd International Design and Test Workshop 2007 (IDT 2007), Cairo, Egypt, 2007, pp 88-89. 53.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: Reliability – The Fourth Optimization Pillar of Nanoelectronics, Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), Dubai, UAE, November 2007, pp 73-76. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 54.     Walid Ibrahim, Valeriu Beiu, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: Why Nano-DSP Will Be Fan-in Constrained, Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), Dubai, UAE, November 2007, pp 317-320. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 55.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Framework for an Expressive Automated Homework Grading System, Proc. IADIS International Conference on e-Learning 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007, pp 222-225.  56.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Valeriu Beiu, and Walid Ibrahim: A strategy for reliability assessment of future nano-circuits, Proc. 11thWSEAS International Conference on Circuits 2007, Crete Island, Greece, 2007, pp 60-65. 57.     Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Fresh Look at Majority Multiplexing – When Devices Get into the Picture, Proc. 7thInter. Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology 2007 (IEEE-NANO 2007), Hong Kong, SAR, 2007, pp 883-888.  58.     Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: What von Neumann Did Not Say About Multiplexing, Beyond Gate Failures — The Gory Details, Proc. 9thInter. Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), June 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 2007, pp 487-496. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 59.     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 (ANSS’06), Huntsville, AL, USA April 2006, pp 152-159. (Rank C, CORE 2010) 60.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Claudia Isensee and Graham Horton:Phases or Proxels: The Decision Factors,2nd Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2005) 17-19 November 2005, Ohrid, Macedonia, November 2005, pp 421-428.  61.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: Proxels Practically: The Meaning of the Lifetime Factor, 18. Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2005), SCS European Publishing House 2005, pp 446-451. 62.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton:Description Framework for Proxel-Based Simulation of a General Class of Stochastic Models, Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2005 (SCSC’05), Philadelphia, PA, USA 2005, pp 221-228. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 63.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton:A Framework for Performability Modelling Using Proxels, First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’05), American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE 2005. 64.      Claudia Isensee, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, and Graham Horton:Combining Proxels and Discrete Phases, First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’05), American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE 2005.  65.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation of a Warranty Model, 18thEuropean Simulation Multiconference 2004 (ESM 2004), SCS European Publishing House 2004, pp 221-224. (Rank B, CORE 2010) 66.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation of Stochastic Petri Nets.,Simulation und Visualisierung 2004. SCS European Publishing House 2004, pp 179-190. 67.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation. Fourth International Conference for Informatics and Information Technology 2003, Bitola, Macedonia 2003, pp 41-48. 68.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton: Proxel-Based Simulation for Fault Tree Analysis, 17. Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2003), SCS European Publishing House 2003, pp 99-104. 69.     Graham Horton and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar: A Reduced-Stiffness Method for the Transient Solution of Discrete-Time Markov Chains, Proceedings of the 2003International Conference on Numerical Solutions of Markov Chains, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 2003. 70.     Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and 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, pp 203-217. (Workshop at a Conference ranked Rank A, CORE 2010) Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Graham Horton:An Experimental Study of the Behaviour of the Proxel-Based Simulation Algorithm,Simulation und Visualisierung 2003 (SimVis 2003), SCS European Publishing House 2003, pp 419-430.   TECHNICAL REPORTS 1.      Graham Horton and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar:Evaluation of the Proxel-Based Simulation Methods for Fault Trees and Petri Nets,Technical Report written for DaimlerChrysler Research, 2003.   TUTORIALS 1.      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar:Deterministic Analysis of Discrete Stochastic Models: Proxel-Based Simulation(3-hour tutorial) SCSC’05, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2005.    SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES Associate Professor – University of Southern Denmark Director at Large, Board of Directors, Modeling and Simulation Society International (SCS), 2019 Head of Programme, M.Sc. in Software Engineering, 2015/16, 2016/17 Chair of the Education Committee for the Education Programmes in  Software Engineering Information and Communication Technologies          2015/16, 2016/17 Member, Internationalization Committee for the study program in “Information and Communication Technologies“, 2015/16 Member, Committee for Increasing the Number of Female Students in Engineering, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18   Assistant Professor – United Arab Emirates University   General Chair, IT Marathon 2014 – IT Competition for Elementary and High School Students Initiator and leader of the College of IT Students’ Programming Club Member, Committee for Developing new Computer Science Curriculum, 2012/2013  Member, Assessment Committee, 2012/2013  Member, Teaching Committee, 2011/2012 Member, Outreach Committee, 2010/2011 Elected Secretary, CIT Faculty Organization, 2010/2011 Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2009/2010 Chair, Textbook Committee, 2009/10 Member, ABET Accreditation Satellite Task Force, 2008/09 Member, Textbook Committee, 2008/09 Member, Textbook Committee, 2007/08 Member, Public Relations Committee, 2007/08 Member, Faculty Award Committee, 2007/08 Member, New Student Handbook Committee, 2007/08 Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2013. Chair of Registration committee  Served as Session Chair Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2012. Chair of Publicity committee  Served as Session Chair Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2009. Chair of Publicity committee  Chair of Publication committee  Member, Organizing Committee, Sixth International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2008. Chair of Publicity committee  Served as Session Chair Member, Programme Committee, International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2007, 2010. Served in reviewing papers Member and Participant, “Culture Day:” Present culture of Macedonia, April 2010. Judge, IT Marathon in the academic years 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 Judge, Senior Exhibition in the academic years 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 Judge, IT Core Exhibition Groups, 2006/07, 2007-2008  Judge, Internship 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09 Proctoring Final Exams for other colleges 2007, 2008.