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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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. |
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 (
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, (
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 
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. |
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