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Dr.
Nesa Ilich is a professional water resources engineer with over twenty years of
consulting practice. His practical experience includes integrated multi-purpose
river basin management, hydraulics, hydrology, stochastic hydrology, and design
of drainage systems. He has expertise in applications of operations research
techniques in design and operation of water resources infrastructure, and he has
developed sophisticated simulation and optimization models that were applied in
various studies. His previous projects include the World Bank and ADB funded
river basin and irrigation planning studies in South East Asia, where he was
involved as a senior consultant. Other engagements in similar capacity include
projects with Transalta Utilities Corporation (a large electrical utility
corporation in the Province of Alberta, Canada), Brantas River Basin Management
Authority (PJT) in Indonesia, Canadian International Development Agency, and
Alberta Environment, a Provincial water management agency in Canada. Dr. Ilich
has significantly improved Alberta Environment’s Water Resource Management Model
(WRMM) through a series of contracts awarded to him since 1987 and exported its
use overseas. This model has been used in numerous multi-disciplinary studies
as a tool to aid assessments of water management and basin development issues
among a number of stakeholders, including hydro power producers, irrigators,
municipalities and various industrial consumers. Dr. Ilich has recently
developed a unique method for generating stochastic hydrologic time series at
multiple sites. He has also authored numerous reports and technical papers
published in conference proceedings and peer reviewed journals, and he has
received several academic scholarships as well as a professional award of
excellence by the Consulting Engineers of Alberta for his work on the Yellow
River Basin modeling done in cooperation with Golder Associates Ltd. Dr. Ilich
is Adjunct Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary where is
currently involved in several research initiatives (http://www.schulich.ucalgary.ca/resrch_civil/Civil_Ilich.htm).
He has numerous publications related to hydrology, water resources management
and operational research:
Ilich, N. and J. Despotovic.
2007. A Simple Method for Effective Multi-Site Generation of Stochastic
Hydrologic Time Series. Journal or Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk
Assessment, Feb./Mar. 2007.
Ilich, N. 2006.
Comments on “WEAP21 – A Demand-, Priority-, and
Preference-Driven Water Planning Model: Part 1” by David Yates, Jack Sieber,
David Purkey, and Annette Huber-Lee. Published in
Water International Volume 30, Number
4, December 2005: 501-512. A discussion paper published in Water International,
June 2006.
Ilich, N. and J. Despotovic.
2006. Recent Advances in Statistical Science for Multi-Site Generation of
Stochastic Hydrologic Time Series. Presented at the XIII International
Conference of Danubian Countires on the Hydrological Forecasting and
Hydrological Bases of Water Management, August 28-31, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia.
Ilich N. 2006. Limitations
of
Network Flow Algorithms and Linear Programming in River Basin Modeling.
Currently under review.
Ilich N. 2006. A Matching
Algorithm for Generation of Correlated Random Variables with Arbitrary
Distribution Functions. To be published in the European Journal of Operational
Research.
Ilich N., D. Long, H. Zhang,
W. Hangbin. 2005. An Evaluation of Potential WRMM Application to the Yellow
River Water Allocation Planning and Operation. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Yellow River Forum, Vol. II, Yellow River Conservancy Press,
Zhengzhou, China.
Ilich N. The Benefits of
Replacing LP Solvers in basin Allocation Models with a Generalized Non-Linear
Evolutionary Network Flow Solver (SFEP). Proceedings of the 2001 World
Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Florida, May 2001.
Ilich N. A Strongly Feasible
Evolution Program for Non-Linear Optimization of Network Flows. Ph.D. Thesis,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, September 2000.
Ilich N., Drury R, Godman P.
and Simonovic S. Operation of Bighorn/Brazeau Hydro Power System of Transalta
Utilities Corporation.
Proceedings of
the XIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources,
Calgary, June 2000, Balkema Publishers.
Ilich N., Simonovic S.P. and
Amron M. The Benefits of Computerized Real-Time River Basin Management in the
Malahayu Reservoir System, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, February 2000.
Ilich N., Simonovic, S.P. An
Evolution Program for Non-Linear Transportation Problems. Journal of Heuristics
7, P. 145-168, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts, USA, March 2001.
Ilich N., Simonovic S.P.,
Evolutionary Algorithm for Minimization of Pumping Costs, American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Computing, Vol. 12, No.4, 1998.
Ilich N., and Simonovic S.,
Optimal Design of Water Resources in the Sustainable Development Framework with
the Lombok Case Study, presented at the Joint Seminar on Optimization of Water
Allocation for Sustainable Development by DGWRD-JICA-INACID, Jakarta, 16-17
January, 1996.
Ilich N., Water Resources
Management Model (WRMM) of Alberta Environment - Model Properties and
Capabilities, 15th Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and
Drainage (ICID) in Hague, Netherlands, September 1993.
Ilich
N., Improvement of the Return Flow Allocation in the Water Resources Management
Model (WRMM) of Alberta Environment, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering,
August, 1993.
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Dr.
Mahmood Moussavi holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Catholic University of
Levuen, Belgium and an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. Dr. Moussavi is an associate with Optimal Solutions Ltd. And
currently a faculty member and the Director of Software Engineering at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shulich School of
Engineering, (http://www2.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/moussavi/),
University of Calgary. He has extensive working and teaching experience in
Information Technologies, including:
Software Development
Process (Analysis Modeling, Design Modeling, Quality Assurance)
Object-Oriented and
Agent-based Technologies
Database Design and
Distributed Systems Architecture
Data Structures
Dr. Moussavi also
holds over 20 years of working and research experience in different areas of
related to software development.
Some of the previous
projects include:
Design and development of Irrigation District Model and Water
Distribution Computer Model for Alberta Environment and Alberta Agriculture
Design and Development of Data Acquisition Computer Model, for McAllister
Petroleum.
Design and Development of Speech-Image Software, for Sun-Touch
Consulting.
Analysis, and Design of Office Automation System, for Clynch Prosthetic and
Orthopaedic Lab.
Research, and Developed of Runoff Estimation Computer Model called IRWAT, as
part of his PhD thesis, using a combination of three non-linear parameter
estimation techniques (Simplex, Marquardt and DFP).
His
partial list of publications includes:
Thamer Albourae, G.
Ruhe, M. Moussavi, Lightweight
Re-planning of Software Product Releases. In Proceeding of 14th IEEE
International Requirement Engineering Conference, Manneapolis/St. Paul,
Minnesota, USA.
M. Galster, A.
Eberlein, M.Moussavi, Transition from Requirements to Architecture: A Review and
Future Perspective. Proceedings of the 7th ACIS International Conference on
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and
Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2006), pages 9-16, published by the IEEE
Computer, June 19-20, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
M. Galster, A.
Eberlein, M. Moussavi, From Enterprise Architectures to Software Architectures
using Requirements Engineering. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on
System/Software Architectures (IWSSA’06), in conjunction with the International
Conference of Software Engineering Research and Practice 2006, pages 785-789,
published by CSREA Press, June 27, 2006, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
M. Galster, A.
Eberlein, M.Moussavi, A Process Model for Pre-processing Requirements towards
Architecture. Submitted to 14 Annual IEEE International Conference on
Engineering Computer Based Systems (ECBS 07), will be held from March 26-29, in
Tucson Arizona, USA.
M. Galster, A.
Eberlein, M. Moussavi, Matching Requirements with Off-the-shelf Components at
the Architectural Level. The Second International Off-The-Shelf-Based
Development Methods Workshop (IOTSDM'07. This paper has been reviewed and
accepted for publication. Workshop will be held in Banf from ) Feb. 26, to
March 2, 2007.
Rajeev B., Jujjuru
S., M. Moussavi. Architecture for Intelligent Software Configuration
Management. International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
and Internet Commerce, IWTIC04, August 2004, 12-14 July, Gold Coast – Australia,
Pages 467-472.
Moussavi, M. and J.
Feyen. Comparison of different structures for a monthly water yield model in
seasonally snow‑covered watersheds. Hydrological Science Journal, 35,5,10/1990.
Moussavi, M.,
Wyseure, G. and J. Feyen. Estimation of snow melt‑rate in seasonally
snow‑covered mountains. Hydrological Science Journal, 34, 3, 6/1989.
Wyseure, G. ,
Moussavi, M. and J. feyen. Comparison of different operators for rainfall excess
generation. Laboratory of Land Management, Catholic University of Leuven,
Belgium. 24p,1988.
Moussavi, M.
Hydrologic systems modelling of mountainous watersheds in semi‑arid regions.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 180 p. June 1988.
Moussavi, M.
Wyseure, G. and J. Feyen. Application of a monthly water yield model.
International Conf. on Water Resource Needs and Planning in Drought Prone Areas,
Khartoum, Sudan. 20p, 1986.
Thamer Albourae, G.
Ruhe, M. Moussavi, An Inernal
Technical Report on Lightweight Re-planning of Software Product Releases -An
Empirical Case. University of Calgary, SEDS Lab.
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Mr.
Jorge Dreher graduated in civil engineering in 1978 and obtained M.Sc. in
hydraulics and hydrology from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He
has 27 years of professional experience as a
project manager,
planner, consultant, as well as an integrated river basin management expert.
Jorge has worked in hydrology, hydrogeology, groundwater flow and modelling, and
hydro-informatics. In recent years he participated in a number of projects that
included design and implementation of hydrometeorologic real-time monitoring
networks, hydrological modelling, flood forecasting, flood protection and
development of hydrological software. Jorge has extensive knowledge of the EIA
process and experience in institutional strengthening and policy implementation
within the framework of integrated river basin management. Jorge is fluent in
five languages. He has participated as author or co-author of more than 50
publications, some of which include:
Gunatilaka A.,
J.E. Dreher, 1996.
Use of early
warning systems as a tool for surface and ground water quality monitoring. Proc.
IAWQ and IWSA Symp. on Metropolitan Areas and Rivers. Rome, May 1996.
Gunatilaka , A.,
Dreher, J. E. 1998.
Continuous
surface and groundwater quality monitoring of the Danube – the use of early
warning systems. Proc. IAWQ Management of large river basins, 8th River Basin
Conference, Budapest, September 1988, 419 - 422.
Nhamucho, R., J. Dreher,
G. Pevny, 1999. Rede Telemétrica e Programa de Gestão da Bacia do Umbeluzi,
Mozambique. Proceedings of the IV Simpósio de Hidráulica e Recursos Hídricos dos
Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, SILUSBA. Coimbra, Portugal, May 1999,
(Proceedings in CD-Rom).
Dreher J., F.
Gampe, M. Kirchebner, G. Kubu, T. Nagler, H. Rott, R. Schmalfuß, M. Schönerklee,
G. Triebnig, Z. Wu, E.
Zeller,
2000.
Hydrological Services: The Need for the Integration of Space
Based Information. Proceedings of the International Symposium "Geomark 2000",
Paris, France, 10-12 April 2000 (ESA SP-458, August 2000), 119-127.
Dreher, J. 2002.
Real-time environmental monitoring – prospects for new horizons. In. Proc. Int.
IWA Symp on Automation in Water Quality Monitoring – Autmonet 2002, Vienna, May
21-22, 2002. (eds. N. Fleischmann, G. Langergraber & R. Haberl), p. 393-396.
Dreher,J., Fuchs,
M., Kruszewski, A., Niedbala, J., and Niwinski. J. 2002: A hydrological
monitoring, forecasting and warning system for Poland. Proc. Int. Symp.
‘Environmental Communication in the Information Society’ Enviro Vienna
2002, (Ed. Pillman, W. & Tochtermann, K.), 2002. p. 548-555.
Dreher J., E.
Barros, A. Gunatilaka, 2005. Integrated Groundwater Basin Management for
Ribeireta Basin, Cape Verde – a step towards sustainability. 2005 NGWA Ground
Water Summit 2005, San Antonio, Texas, USA. (Abstract).
Dreher,J., Fuchs,
M., A., Niedbala, J., and Niwinski. J. 2006: Modernization of the Hydrological
Forecasting System in Poland. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on
Hydroinformatics, HIC 2006, Nice, France. p. 8.
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Dr.
Vahid Garousi obtained his undergraduate software engineering Degree in 2000
from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran, where he worked for the system
analysis team of an Iranian software outsourcing company (Information Management
Systems) until 2001, when he immigrated to Canada to continue his graduate
studies. Vahid received an MASc from the University of Waterloo in 2003 and a
PhD degree from Carleton University in 2006. He then joined the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Calgary as an Assistant
Professor in September 2006.
Vahid’s research interests in
software engineering include verification and validation of object-oriented
systems based on unified modeling language (UML), analysis, testing, and quality
assurance of distributed, real-time and embedded systems. He has published more
than 10 technical papers and reports in those areas. Vahid has been involved in
different software engineering conference organization and program committees
and usually serves as a reviewer for various technical journals in this area.
Among his awards is the 61st rank in the Iranian Nation-wide university entrance
competition among about 490,000 students from all over the country in 1996. He
is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society. References to Dr.
Garousi’s publications and other pertinent details on his recent research
activities can be found at
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~vgarousi. |