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Hans Vangheluwe is a Professor in the Antwerp Systems and Software Modelling (AnSyMo) group within the Computer Science Department at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, where he is a founding member of the NEXOR Consortium on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). AnSyMo is a Core Research Lab of Flanders Make, the strategic research centre for the Flemish manufacturing industry. He heads the Modelling, Simulation and Design Lab (MSDL), founded when he was a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In a variety of projects, often with industrial partners, he develops and applies the model-based theory and techniques of Multi-Paradigm Modelling (MPM) in application domains as diverse as bio-actived sludge waste-water treatment plant design and optimization (which led to the WEST commercial tool), safe automotive software (within the NECSIS project), and autonomic production plants in the context of Industry 4.0.
His fundamental work covers the foundations of modelling and (co-)simulation, of model management, model transformation, and collaborative domain-specific (visual) modelling environments. This work is always accompanied by prototype tools such as WEST, Python(P)DEVS, the Modelverse, T-Core, AToM3 (with Juan de Lara) and AToMPM. In the mid ’90s, he was one of the original members of the equation-based, object-oriented modelling language Modelica design team, one of the initiatives of the ESPRIT Basic Research Working Group 8467 on “simulation for the future: new concepts, tools and applications” (SiE) which he co-founded. He has published extensively in simulation and in software modelling. He frequently gives tutorials on topics such as Statecharts, DEVS, co-simulation, modelling language engineering and a-causal modelling. He was the co-organizer, with Vasco Amaral, of Summer Schools such as Domain-Specific Modelling, Theory and Practice (DSM-TP). Recently, he was the chair of the EU COST Action IC1404 “Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems” (MPM4CPS).
