PADS 2008 Work-in-Progress Session: Call for Abstracts
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                 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on
        Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
                           (PADS 2008)
                http://www.cis.fiu.edu/pads2008/
 
                        June 3-6, 2008
                         Rome, Italy

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The Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
(PADS), which is formerly called the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Simulation, is organizing a work-in-progress session. 

We plan to include abstracts of work-in-progress presentations in 
the printed proceedings. If you would like to provide a 10-minute 
presentation of your ongoing work (not necessarily ready to be 
published in full length yet) at PADS'08, you are invited to submit an 
extended abstract (max. 300 words in plain text) via E-Mail to the 
Program Chair (liux@cis.fiu.edu) before the following deadline. A final
selection will be announced before March 14, 2008. 

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Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008 (electronic plain text submission)
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The focus areas of PADS include all aspects of simulation technology,
in addition to its traditional focus on parallel and distributed 
simulation methods and applications. These areas include:

   * 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.

General Chair:

   Francesco Quaglia
   Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica 
   Sapienza Universita' di Roma
   via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy 
   Room B116
   phone: 0039-06-77274114
   email: quaglia@dis.uniroma1.it
   web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~quaglia/

Program Chair:

   Jason Liu
   Florida International University
   School of Computing and Information Sciences
   11200 SW 8th Street, ECS 261B
   Miami, Florida 33199, USA
   phone: 305-348-1625
   email: liux@cis.fiu.edu
   web: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~liux/

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