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                 CALL FOR PAPERS - PADS 2010
              *** Deadline ­ January 8, 2010 ***
                24th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on
       Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
                         (PADS) 2010
          http://www.pads-workshop.org/pads2010.html
                       May 17-19, 2010,
                    Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 
The Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
(PADS), which is formerly called Parallel and Distributed Simulation,
is soliciting papers in all aspects of simulation technology,
expanding the traditional focus on parallel and distributed simulation
methods and applications.  Specifically, the steering and program
committees look forward to high-quality paper submissions in the
following areas:
 
    * The construction of simulation engines using advanced computer
      science technology.
    * Techniques for constructing scalable simulations.
    * Advanced modeling techniques that allow solution of previously
      difficult or impossible problem domains.
    * Simulation visualization techniques.
    * Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation,
      including synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and
      load balancing.
    * Applications of large--scale or distributed simulation methods.
    * Distributed interactive simulation and distributed virtual
      environments.
    * Tools and techniques for interoperability of simulations;
      emulations of real systems.
    * Mechanisms for efficient design of experiments.
 
Sponsors (approvals pending):
   ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), IEEE Computer
   Society Technical Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM), and Society
   for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
Important Dates:
   Paper manuscripts must be submitted no later than January 8, 2010.
   Electronic submission of postscript or PDF is highly encouraged,
   using the URL given below. Hard copy submissions are allowed, but
   six copies must be received by the program chair by the deadline.
   Notification of acceptance will be made by February 19, 2010.
   Camera ready copies must be submitted by March 23, 2010.
 
Submissions:
 
Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication
elsewhere.  Each submission must be accompanied by the following
information: a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their
affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, post and email addresses.
Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages using IEEE
Formatting Guidelines (the final versions of accepted papers would be
limited to 8 pages, with option to buy additional pages). All submissions
will be reviewed using a double-blind review process, i.e., the identity of
authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind
reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper,
and bibliographic references should be suitably modified.
 
Selected articles from PADS 2010 will be considered for extension and
publication within a Special Issue of SCS Simulation.
 
General Chairs:
   Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 
Program Chairs:
   Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada
   Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome, Italy
 
Publicity Chair:
    Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 
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Steering Committee:
    S. J. Turner (Chair), Nanyang Tech. Univ.,Singapore
    A. S. Elmaghraby (IEEE), Univ. of Louisville, USA
    J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
    K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
    F. Quaglia, Univ. of Rome, Italy
    G. F. Riley (ACM), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA\
    B. W. Unger (SCS), Univ. of Calgary, Canada
    R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary), Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
 
Program Committee:
    S. Balsamo, University of Venezia, Italy
    D. Bauer, High Perf. Technologies, Inc., USA
    A. Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
    A. Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
    W. Cai, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
    C. Carothers, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USA
    L. Donatiello, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
    D. Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab, USA
    H. Karatza, Aristotle University of Thesolonica, Greece
    A. Lehmann, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
    M. Liljenstam, Ericsson Research, Sweden
    J. Liu, Florida International Univ., USA
    J. Luethi, FHS Kufstein Tirol, Austria
    D. M. Nicol, Univ. of Illinois, USA
    K. S.Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
    P. F. Reynolds, Univ. of Virginia, USA
    D. Roberts, Salford Univ., UK
    S. J. E. Taylor, Brunel Univ., UK
    Y. M. Teo, National Univ. of Singapore
    G. Theodoropoulos, Birmingham Univ., UK
    C. Tropper, McGill Univ., Canada
    S. J. Turner, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
    A. Uhrmacher, Univ. of Rostock, Germany
    P. A. Wilsey, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA