CALL FOR PAPERS - PADS 2008

                 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

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 21, 2008.
   (The deadline, which has been extended from January 7, 2008, is a
   firm deadline). 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 15, 
   2008.  Camera ready copies must be submitted by March 14, 2008.

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   Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for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 2008 will be considered for extension
   and publication within a Special Issue of SCS Simulation.

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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Steering Committee:

   S. J. Turner (Chair)       Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
   D. M. Nicol                Univ. of Illinois, USA
   G. F. Riley                Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
   K. S. Perumalla            Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
   S. J. E. Taylor (ACM)      Brunel Univ., UK
   A. S. Elmaghraby (IEEE)    Univ. of Louisville, USA
   B. W. Unger (SCS)          Univ. of Calgary, Canada
   R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary)  Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA

Program Committee:

   D.    Bauer                Mitre Corp., USA 
   W.    Cai                  Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
   C.    Carothers            Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USA
   L.    Donatiello           Univ. of Bologna, Italy
   R. M. Fujimoto             Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
   D.    Jefferson            Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab, USA
   A.    Lehmann              Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
   M.    Liljenstam           Ericsson Research, Sweden
   J.    Luethi               FHS KufsteinTirol, Austria
   A. L. M. Thom McLean       Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
   K. L. Morse                SAIC, USA
   D. M. Nicol                Univ. of Illinois, USA
   K. S. Perumalla            Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
   P. F. Reynolds             Univ. of Virginia, USA
   G. F. Riley                Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
   R.    Simmonds             Univ. of Calgary, Canada
   B. K. Szymanski            Rensselaer Polytech, USA
   S. J. E. Taylor            Brunel Univ., UK
   Y. M. Teo                  National Univ. of Singapore
   C.    Tropper              McGill Univ., Canada
   S. J. Turner               Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
   A.    Uhrmacher            Univ. of Rostock, Germany
   B.    Unger                Univ. of Calgary, Canada
   F. P. Wieland              Sensis Corp., USA
   P. A. Wilsey               Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
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