>                                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>    P A D S
>                  14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation
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>                             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 
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> 
> 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,  Yoke-Hean Low, Sanjay Jain, 
> Stephen J. Turner, Wentong Cai, 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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> 
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