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                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
   P A D S
             14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation
   2 0 0 0
                    Bologna, Italy           28-31 May 2000

                       http://siwg.dera.gov.uk/~pads2000

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Information on conference registration and hotel reservation have been 
made available at http://www.CS.UniBO.it/pads2000


The PADS Workshop provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent
work that enhances the understanding of parallel and distributed
simulation techniques (including optimistic, conservative, real time and
interactive synchronization, synthetic environments, virtual reality, 
DIS and HLA, and web-based simulation) and their use in real-worlds
situations.


SPONSORS:
                  ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (ACM SIGSIM)*
  IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (IEEE TC-SIM)*
                                  Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)*
                                                      * approval pending


                             PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

SUN 28 MAY 2000

Welcoming reception


MON 29 MAY 2000

Opening and introduction

Session 1: Challenges for future research
  
"Real-world challenges for parallel and distributed simulation"
Keynote Speaker: W. H. Dell Lunceford (Director, US Army Model &
Simulation Office)

(Followed by brainstorming/discussion session to explore issues raised)

Coffee break

Session 2: Parallel simulation for continuous and real-time applications

"Parallel Mixed-Technology Simulation",
by Peter Frey, Radharamanan Radhakrishnan,
Harold W. Carter and Philip A. Wilsey

"Applying Parallel Discrete Event Simulation to Network Emulation"
by Rob Simmonds, Russell Bradford and Brian Unger

"Repeatability in Real-Time Distributed Simulation Executions"
by Thom McLean and Richard M. Fujimoto

Lunch

Session 3: Optimistic system performance

"Analytic Performance Model for Speculative, Synchronous,
Discrete-Event Simulation"
by Brad Noble and Roger Chamberlain

"Slow Memory: the Rising Cost of Optimism"
by Richard A. Meyer, Jay M. Martin and Rajive L. Bagrodia

"ROSS: A High-Performance, Low Memory, Modular Time Warp System"
by Christopher Carothers, David Bauer and Shawn Pearce

Coffee break

Session 4: Interoperability issues

"An Approach for Federating Parallel Simulators"
by Steve L. Ferenci, Kalyan S. Perumalla and Richard M. Fujimoto

"Safe Timestamps and Large-Scale Modeling"
by David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, James Cowie


TUE 30 MAY 2000

Session 5: Making parallel simulation a success

Strategies for Success in Parallel Simulation Applications
Keynote speaker: Frederick Wieland (MITRE)

(Followed by brainstorming/discussion session to explore issues raised)

Coffee break

Session 6: Applications

"Efficient Distributed Simulation of a Communication Switch with
Bursty Sources and Losses"
by A. S. MCGough and I. Mitrani

"Optimizing Cell-size in Grid-Based DDM"
by Rassul Ayani, Farshad Moradi and Gary Tan

"Distributed, Parallel Simulation of Multiple, Deliberative Agents"
by Adelinde Uhrmacher and Karsten Gugler

Lunch

Session 7: Miscellaneous

"Parallelizing a Sequential Logic Simulator using an Optimistic
Framework based on a Global Parallel Heap Event Queue: An Experience and
Performance Report"
by Sushil K. Prasad and Nikhil Junankar

"Network Aware Time Management and Event Distribution"
by George Riley, Richard M. Fujimoto and Mostafa Ammar

Coffee break

Session 8: Work-in-progress session

Business meeting


WED 31 MAY 2000

Session 9: Load balancing

"Locality-Preserving Load-Balancing Mechanisms for Synchronous
Simulations on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors",
by Voon-Yee Vee and Wen-Jing Hsu

"Load Balancing for Conservative Simulation on Shared Memory
Multiprocessor Systems"
by Boon-Ping Gan, Stephen J. Turner, Wentong Cai, Yoke-Hean Low,
Sanjay Jain, Wen-Jing Hsu and Shell-Ying Huang

"Model Structure and Load Balancing in Optimistic Parallel Discrete
Event Simulation"
by Tapas K. Som and Robert G. Sargent

Coffee break

Session 10: Scheduling

"Pre-Sampling as an Approach for Exploiting Temporal Uncertainty"
by Margaret L. Loper and Richard M. Fujimoto

"An Empirical Study of Conservative Scheduling"
by Ha Yoon Song, Richard A. Meyer and Rajive Bagrodia

"Grain Sensitive Event Scheduling in Time Warp Parallel Discrete
Event Simulation"
by Francesco Quaglia and Vittorio Cortellessa

Closing ceremony


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