CONFERENCE PROGRAMME version 1.2, updated: 2015-05-15 Faculty of Navigation Gdynia Maritime University and have the honour to invite to TransNav 2015 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARINE NAVIGATION AND SAFETY OF SEA TRANSPORTATION TransNav 2015 Gdynia 2015 PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE version 1.2, updated: 2015-05-15 Photo & Creation: A. Łuczak Conference Office: Department of Navigation TransNav 2015 Faculty of Navigation Gdynia Maritime University Al. Jana Pawła II 3 81-345 Gdynia Poland phone: + 48 58 6901136, +48 58 6616955 fax: + 48 58 6616955 e-mail: [email protected] web site: http://transnav2015.am.gdynia.pl 2 Chairman of the Conference Prof. Adam Weintrit, FRIN, FNI, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Chairman of the Polish Branch of the Nautical Institute; Dean of the Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Scientific Programme Committee (List of rewriters): Prof. Teresa Abramowicz-Gerigk, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland Prof. Lee Alexander, University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Durham, USA Prof. Paolo Alfredini, University of Sao Paulo, Polytechnic School, Sao Paulo, Brazil Prof. Anatoli Alop, Estonian Maritime Academy, Tallin, Estonia Prof. Yasuo Arai, Fellow of TransNav, Senior Vice President of the IAIN, Marine Technical College, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan Prof. Vidal Ashkenazi, FRIN, Fellow of TransNav, Nottingham Scientific Ltd, UK Prof. Ted Bagfeldt, Kalmar Maritime Academy, Linnaeus University, Sweden Prof. Michael Baldauf (Germany), Word Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden Prof. Andrzej Banachowicz, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland Prof. Marcin Barlik, Chairman of the Committee of Geodesy of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Prof. Eugen Barsan, Master Mariner, Constanta Maritime University, Romania Prof. Milan Batista, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Prof. Angelica Baylon, AFNI, Secretary General of NI Philippine Branch; Maritime Academy of Asia & the Pacific, Philippines Prof. Michael Bell, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney, Australia Prof. Knud Benedict, Fellow of TransNav, University of Wismar, University of Technology, Business and Design, Germany Prof. Christophe Berenguer, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Saint Martin d'Hères, France Prof. Heinz Peter Berg, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Salzgitter, Germany Prof. Tor Einar Berg, Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute, Trondheim, Norway Prof. Carmine Giuseppe Biancardi, The University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy Prof. Leif Bjorno, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Prof. Vitaly Bondarev, Master Mariner, Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy, Kaliningrad, Russia Prof. Neil Bose, Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia Prof. Jarosław Bosy, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland TransNav 2015 Prof. Victoria Braithwaite, FRIN, Penn State University, United States Prof. Alfred Brandowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Andrzej Bujak, WSB Schools of Banking, Wrocław, Poland Prof. Zbigniew Burciu, Master Mariner, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Sr. Jesus Carbajosa Menendez, President of Spanish Institute of Navigation, Spain; President of INAVE Prof. Pierre Cariou, Word Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden Prof. Doina Carp, Constanta Maritime University, Romania Prof. William Cartwright, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Prof. Ayşe Güldem Cerit, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey Prof. Shyy Woei Chang, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan Prof. Adam Charchalis, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Ruizhi Chen, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, US Prof. Wu Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Prof. Andrzej Chudzikiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Prof. Frank Coolen, Durham University, UK 3 Prof. Kevin Cullinane, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Prof. Jerzy Czajkowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Krzysztof Czaplewski, President of Polish Navigation Forum; Gdynia Maritime University, Poland; Prof. German de Melo Rodriguez, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Prof. Robert De Souza, National University of Singapore, Singapore Prof. Bolesław Domański, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Prof. Eamonn Doyle, Fellow of TransNav, National Maritime College of Ireland, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Prof. Branislav Dragović, University of Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro Prof. Daniel Duda, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Polish Naval Academy, Gdynia, Poland; President of Polish Nautological Society Prof. Marek Dzida, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland Prof. Milan Džunda, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia Prof. Billy Edge, North Carolina State University, United States Prof. Bernd Eissfeller, Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University of FAF, Munich, Germany Prof. Akram Elentably, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Prof. Ahmed El-Rabbany, FRIN, University of New Brunswick; Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Prof. Tarek A. Elsayed, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt Prof. Naser El-Sheimy, FRIN, The University of Calgary, Canada Prof. Sophia Everett, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Prof. Odd M. Faltinsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Prof. Jeffrey Falzarano, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, United States Prof. Alfonso Farina, SELEX-Sistemi Integrati, Rome, Italy Prof. Andrzej Fellner, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland Prof. Andrzej Felski, Fellow of TransNav, Polish Naval Academy, Gdynia, Poland Prof. Włodzimierz Filipowicz, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland Prof. Renato Filjar, FRIN, University College of Applied Sciences, Bjelovar, Croatia Prof. Börje Forssell, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Secretary General of NNF Prof. Alberto Francescutto, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Prof. Jens Froese, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Prof. Masao Furusho, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Chairman of the Japanese Branch of the Nautical Institute; Kobe University, Japan TransNav 2015 Prof. Wiesław Galor, Fellow of TransNav, Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland Prof. Yang Gao, University of Calgary, Canada Prof. Georg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria Prof. Péter Gáspár, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Prof. Aleksandrs Gasparjans, Latvian Maritime Academy, Latvia Prof. Jerzy Gaździcki, President of the Polish Association for Spatial Information; Warsaw, Poland Prof. Avtandil Gegenava, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Georgian Maritime Transport Agency, Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, Georgia Prof. Mirosław Gerigk, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland Prof. Witold Gierusz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Dariusz Gotlib, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Prof. Martha R. Grabowski, Le Moyne College; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Prof. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, The Ohio State University, United States; President of ION Prof. Hugh Griffiths, University College London (UCL), the United Kingdom Prof. Norbert Gruenwald, Hochschule Wismar - University of Technology, Business and Design, Wismar, Germany 4 Prof. Marek Grzegorzewski, Polish Air Force Academy, Dęblin, Poland Prof. Andrzej Grzelakowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Marek Grzybowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland Prof. Lucjan Gucma, Fellow of TransNav, Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland Prof. Stanisław Gucma, Master Mariner, Rector of Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland Prof. Vladimir Hahanov, Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine Prof. Jerzy Hajduk, Master Mariner, Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland Prof. Esa Hämäläinen, University of Turku, Finland Prof. Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Prof. Peter J. Hayes, Master Mariner, California State University, California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, CA, United States Prof. Michał Holec, Fellow of TransNav, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Qinyou Hu, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China Prof. Rene H.M. Huijsmans, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands Prof. Stojce Dimov Ilcev, Master Mariner, Durban University of Technology, South Africa Prof. Toshio Iseki, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Prof. Marianna Jacyna, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Prof. Ales Janota, University of Žilina, Slovakia Prof. Jacek Januszewski, Fellow of TransNav, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Jung Sik Jeong, Mokpo National Maritime University, South Korea Prof. Tae-Gweon Jeong, Master Mariner, Korean Maritime University, Pusan, Korea Prof. Piotr Jędrzejowicz, Rector of Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Yongxing Jin, Shanghai Maritime University, China Prof. Mirosław Jurdziński, FNI, Fellow of TransNav, Master Mariner, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland Prof. Tadeusz Kaczorek, Fellow of TransNav, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Full Member of Polish Academy of Sciences Prof. Izzet Kale, FRIN, University of Westminster, London, the United Kingdom Prof. Kalin Kalinov, Master Mariner,