PADS 2008 Program
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tutorial: Distributed Simulation on the Grid
Stephen John Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14:30-16:00 Tutorial (Part I)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Tutorial (Part II)
18:30-20:00 Welcome Cocktail and Registration
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
8:50-9:00 Opening
Francesco Quaglia
9:00-10:30 Keynote
Session Chair: Francesco Quaglia
Mobility Models for Wireless Networks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Successes
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Network Emulation
Session Chair: Robert Cole
Time Jails: A Hybrid Approach to Scalable Network Emulation
Andreas Grau, Steffen Maier, Klaus Herrmann, Kurt Rothermel
Adaptive Model Update Algorithms for Remote Network Emulation
Yan Gu, Richard Fujimoto
Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-Time Network Simulation
Yue Li, Jason Liu, Raju Rangaswami
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Applications
Session Chair: Wentong Cai
Parallel Vehicular Traffic Simulation using Reverse Computation-based Optimistic Execution
Srikanth Yoginath, Kalyan Perumalla
Modelling and Simulation of Pedestrian Behaviours
Wee Lit Koh, Lin Lin, Suiping Zhou
Parallel and Distributed Spatial Simulation of Chemical Reactions
Matthias Jeschke, Roland Ewald, Alfred Park, Richard Fujimoto, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Modeling and Performance Evaluation
Session Chair: Richard Fujimoto
Secure Referee Selection for Fair and Responsive Peer-to-Peer Gaming
Steven Webb, Sieteng Soh, Jerry Trahan
Stochastic Process Models for Packet/Analytic-Based Network Simulations
Robert Cole, George Riley, Derya Cansever, William Yurcik
Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows
Nabil Schear, David Nicol
Thursday, June 5, 2008
9:00-10:30 Simulation Techniques
Session Chair: Maria Hybinette
An Algorithm Selection Approach for Simulation Systems
Roland Ewald, Jan Himmelspach, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
Interval Branching
Patrick Peschlow, Peter Martini, Jason Liu
Symbiotic Simulation Systems: An Extended Definition Motivated by Symbiosis in Biology
Heiko Aydt, Stephen John Turner, Wentong Cai, Malcolm Yoke Hean Low
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Network Simulation Emulation and Testbeds
Session Chair: Kalyan Perumalla
Evaluating the performance of real time videoconferencing in ad hoc networks through emulation
Jorge Hortelano, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate, Pietro Manzoni
Scalability versus Accuracy in Physical Layer Modeling for Wireless Network Simulations
Elyes Ben Hamida, Guillaume Chelius, Jean Marie Gorce
Hybrid Testbed Enabling Run-time Operations for Wireless Applications
Kumiko Maeda, Keisuke Nakata, Takaaki Umedu, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Keiichi Yasumoto, Teruo Higashino
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Work In Progress
Session Chair: George Riley
Federated Agent Based Modeling and Simulation: An Approach for Complex Critical Systems Analysis,
Emiliano Casalicchio, Emanuele Galli
Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Coalition Structure Generation in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems,
Gabriele D'Angelo, Giovanni Rossi
A Dynamic Publish-Subscribe Network for Distributed Simulation,
Patrick Crowley
Managing Computational Complexity of Large-Scale Traffic Micro-Simulations Using Application- and Simulation-Specific Characteristics,
Tom Holvoet, Rutger Claes
Clarifying Interoperability: The SISO CSPI PDG Standard for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Simulation Package Interoperability Reference Models,
Simon J.E. Taylor, Stephen J. Turner, Steffen Strassburger
Efficient Execution on GPUs of Field-based Vehicular Mobility Models,
Kalyan S. Perumalla
Transparent and Adaptive Computation-block Caching for Agent-based
Simulation on a PDES Core,
Yin Xiong, Maria Hybinette, Eileen Kraemer
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Optimistic Simulation
Session Chair: Philip Wilsey
A comparison of Interest Manager Mechanisms for Agent-Based Simulation using a Time Warp Executive
Maria Hybinette, Tianhao He
DyMeLoR: Dynamic Memory Logger and Restorer Library for Optimistic Simulation Objects with Generic Memory Layout
Roberto Toccaceli, Francesco Quaglia
17:00-17:30 Business Meeting
Session Chair: Stephen John Turner
17:45-20:00 Modern Art Gallery Tour
20:00 Dinner
Friday, June 6, 2008
9:30-11:00 Agent-Based Simulation and HLA
Session Chair: Gabriele D'Angelo
An Agent-based Environment for Simulation Model Composition
Farshad Moradi, Rassul Ayani, Imran Mahmood
Advancing the Layered Approach to Agent-based Crowd Simulation
Bikramjit Banerjee, Ahmed Abukmail, Landon Kraemer
A Hybrid HLA Time Management Algorithm Based on Both Conditional and Unconditional Information
Ke Pan, Stephen John Turner, Wentong Cai, Zengxiang Li
11:00-11:15 Closing Ceremony