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A. Biographies and O. Dalle-is-maitre-de-conférences, He received his B.Sc. from the University of Bordeaux 1 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from UNS. From 1999 to 2000, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the French Space Agency center in Toulouse (CNES-CST), where he started working on component-based discrete-event simulation of multi-media telecommunication systems he was appointed to UNS, and he joined the MASCOTTE research group, a joint team of UNS, CNRS and INRIA. His current research interests in discrete-event simulation are on methodology support, very large-scale networked systems, and wireless communication systems, 2000.

E. P. Mancini and . Post-doc-researcher-inria-sophia-antipolis-méditerranée, He received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering and his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Sannio, Italy. His research interests are in the area of simulation, high performance computing, and autonomic computing