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                  CALL FOR PAPERS - PADS '05
     19th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and 
                        Distributed Simulation (PADS 2005)

                June 1 -- 3, 2005, Monterey, California, USA


   PADS New Name  Expanded Scope!

   The steering committee for the Workshop on Principles of Advanced
   and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2005) (formerly called Parallel and
   Distributed Simulation) continues the expanded scope for PADS in
   2005.  In addition to the traditional focus on parallel and
   distributed simulation methods and applications, the workshop now
   includes all aspects of simulation technology.  The steering and
   program committees look forward to a number of high-quality paper
   submissions in the following areas.

   o The construction of simulation engines using advanced computer
     science technology.
   o Techniques for constructing scalable simulations.
   o Advanced modeling techniques that allow solution of previously
     difficult or impossible problem domains.
   o Simulation visualization techniques.
   o Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation,
     including synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and
     load balancing.
   o Applications of large--scale or distributed simulation methods.
   o Distributed interactive simulation and distributed virtual
     environments.
   o Tools, and techniques for interoperability of
     simulations, and emulations of real systems.
   o Mechanisms for efficient design of experiments.

   Sponsors:
        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:
         Send submissions to the Program Co-Chairs no later than
         November 1, 2004.  Electronic submission of postscript or PDF
         is highly encouraged, using the URL given below.  Notification
         of acceptance will be made by December 15, 2004. Camera ready
         copies must be submitted by February 15, 2005.

   Submissions:

         Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 5000
         words. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted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. 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,
         bibliographic references should be modified so as not to
         reveal the identities of the authors.

         Selected articles from PADS 05 will be considered for
         extension and publication within a Special Issue of SCS
         Simulation.

   General Chair:
     David M. Nicol
     Univ. of Illinois Urbanna-Champaign
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   Program Co--Chairs:
      Christopher D. Carothers
      Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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      Stephen J. Turner
      Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
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   PADS '05 Steering Committee
         S. J. Turner   (chair)      Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
         S. J. E. Taylor             Brunel Univ., UK
         A. S. Elmaghraby            Univ. of Louisville, USA
         P. S. Magnusson             Virtutech Corp., USA
         B. W. Unger                 Univ. of Calgary, Canada
         G. Riley                    Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
         R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary)   Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA

   Program Committee Members
         A. Boukerche                Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
         D. Degroot                  TechUSA, USA
         L. Donatiello               Univ. of Bologna, Italy
         A. S. Elmaghraby            Univ. of Louisville, USA
         R. M. Fujimoto              Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
         A. Lehmann                  Munich, Germany
         M. Liljenstam               Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA
        J. Liu                      Colorado School of Mines, USA
         J. Luethi                   Kufstein, Austria
         K. Perumalla                Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
         E. H. Page                  U.S. Army, USA
         F. Quaglia                  Univ. of Rome, Italy
         G. Riley                    Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
         R. Simmonds                 Univ. of Calgary, Canada
         E. G. Sirer                 Cornell, USA
         B. K. Szymanski             Rensselaer Polytech, USA
         G. Tackett                  U.S. Army, USA
         M. Takai                    UCLA, USA
         S. J. E. Taylor             Brunel Univ., UK
         C. Tropper                  McGill Univ., Canada
         A. Uhrmacher                Univ. of Rostock, Germany
         B. Unger                    Univ. of Calgary, Canada
         F. P. Wieland               The MITRE Corp, USA
         P. A. Wilsey                Univ. of Cincinnati, USA


Conference URL: Refer to the conference web page at:

http://www.pads-workshop.org/pads2005

for paper submission instructions and up--to--date information.