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