Scope:

The PADS workshop provides a forum for presenting recent work that enhances the understanding of parallel and distributed simulation techniques (including optimistic, conservative, real-time and interactive synchronization, synthetic environments, virtual reality, DIS and HLA, and web-based simulation) and their use in real-world situations.

Papers on a diversity of topics are welcomed, particularly those that indicate and explore new directions; the scope of PADS 2002 is by no means limited to the topics explicitly mentioned here, nor to those discussed at previous meetings. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to:

Algorithms and methods for parallel simulation (e.g. synchronization, scheduling, memory management, load balancing, partitioning and allocation.)

Models of parallel simulation (e.g. stochastic, Markovian, process algebraic, temporal logic.)

Methodology for parallel simulation (e.g. system modeling for parallel simulation, specification, adapting sequential methodologies, parallelizing existing simulations.)

Parallel simulation languages and models (e.g. language and implementation issues, models of parallel simulation, execution environments, libraries.)

Performance of parallel simulation (e.g. theoretical and empirical studies, prediction and analysis, cost models, benchmarks, comparative studies.)

Application of parallel simulation (e.g. computer architecture, VLSI, telecommunication networks, manufacturing, dynamic systems, biological/social systems, parallel and distributed computing.)

Web based distributed simulation (e.g. multimedia and real time applications, fault tolerance, implementation issues, use of Java, CORBA.)

Distributed Interactive Simulation (e.g. synchronization in multi-user distributed simulation, virtual reality environments, HLA, interoperability.)

We invite research contributions that present new formulations, theoretical models, architectures, algorithms, protocols, data structures or other implementation techniques; in short, anything that advances the state of the art or provides deeper insight into its fundamental nature. Papers describing languages, systems, libraries, tools or techniques that facilitate the development, interoperation, re-use and validation of parallel simulation models are also sought, as are contributions towards predicting their performance.

We also solicit application studies and experience reports from practitioners who have tried to apply these techniques in real-world applications. Success stories that demonstrate the practical benefits that parallel, distributed, and web-based simulation can offer are obviously welcome, but we would also encourage those for whom these techniques did not prove successful to characterize those aspects of their problem that caused the most difficulty and thereby frame challenges for future research. (Naturally, deeper analysis than just ``we tried this and it did/didn't work'' would be preferred!)

Sponsors:

ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM)
IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM)
Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)

General Co-Chairs:

Frederik P. Wieland Philip A. Wilsey
Center for Advanced Aviation Syst. Develop. Experimental Computing Lab
The MITRE Corporation ECECS Dept, PO Box 210030
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030
McLean, VA 22102 Voice: +1 513 556-4779
Voice: +1 703 883-5385 Fax: +1 513 556-7326
Fax: +1 703 883-1917 Email: philip.wilsey@ieee.org
Email: fwieland@mitre.org

Program Co-Chairs:

Lorenzo Donatiello Francesco Quaglia
Dipart. di Scienze dell'Informazione Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
University of Bologna University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Via di Mura Anteo Zamboni 7 Via Salaria 113
40127 Bologna, Italy 00198 Roma, Italy
Voice: +39 051 2094512 Voice: +39 06 49918485
Fax: +39 051 2094510 Fax: +39 06 85300849
Email: donat@cs.unibo.it Email: quaglia@dis.uniroma1.it

Frederik P. Wieland		Philip A. Wilsey
Center for Advanced Aviation Syst. Develop.		Experimental Computing Lab
The MITRE Corporation		ECECS Dept, PO Box 210030
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.		Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030
McLean, VA 22102		Voice: +1 513 556-4779
Voice: +1 703 883-5385		Fax: +1 513 556-7326
Fax: +1 703 883-1917		Email: philip.wilsey@ieee.org
Email: fwieland@mitre.org

Lorenzo Donatiello		Francesco Quaglia
Dipart. di Scienze dell'Informazione		Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
University of Bologna		University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Via di Mura Anteo Zamboni 7		Via Salaria 113
40127 Bologna, Italy		00198 Roma, Italy
Voice: +39 051 2094512		Voice: +39 06 49918485
Fax: +39 051 2094510		Fax: +39 06 85300849
Email: donat@cs.unibo.it		Email: quaglia@dis.uniroma1.it