Program

Sunday, May 12:

        (2:30-5:00) - Tutorial on PADS by Dr. David Nicol
                                  Title "Issues in High Performance Simulation"
        (6:00-8:00) - PADS reception

Monday, May 13:

8:00 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM Welcome

9:00 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
                "Some Thoughts on Simulation,"
                Peter S. Magnusson
                President, Virtutech Inc.
 

  Session 1 (10:45-12:15) - CONSERVATIVE SIMULATION

  Chair: Stephen John Turner

         Conservative Simulation Using Distributed-Shared Memory
                Teo Yong Meng, Y.K. Ng, B.S.S. Onggo

        The Lookahead in a User-Transparent Conservative Parallel Simulator
                Viliam Solcany, Jiri Safarik

         Critical Channel Traversing
                Rob  Simmonds, Cameron Kiddle, Brian Unger

  Lunch

  Session 2 (13:30-15:00) - OPTIMISTIC SIMULATION I

  Chair: Jason Liu

        XSim: Real-Time Analytic Parallel Simulations
                Christopher Carothers

        Pal: A New Fossil Collector for Time Warp
                Voon-Yee Vee, Wen-Jing Hsu

        Early Cancellation: An Active NIC Optimization for Time-Warp
                Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Ranjit Noronha
 
 

  Session 3 (15:30-17:00) - VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND HLA

  Chair: George Riley

        Critical Causality In Distributed Virtual Environments
                Suiping Zhou, Wentong Cai, Francis B.S. Lee, Stephen J. Turner

        A Scalable Architecture for Supporting Interacive Games on the Internet
                Wentong Cai, Percival XAVIER, Stephen J. TURNER, Bu-Sung LEE,
                Suiping ZHOU

        Evaluation of a sort-based matching algorithm for DDM
                Jun Yu, Come Raczy, Gary Tan
 

6:30 PM Conference Outing

Tuesday, May 14:

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
                "XML for Distributed Modeling and Simulation,"
                Paul Fishwick
                University of Florida
 

  Session 4 (10:45-12:15) - NETWORK SIMULATION

  Chair: Christopher D. Carothers

        Lookahead Revisited in Wireless Network Simulations
                Jason Liu, David M. Nicol

        Genesis: A System for Large-scale Parallel Network Simulation
                Boleslaw  Szymanski, Adnan Saifee, Anand Sastry, Yu Liu
                Kiran Madnani

        Experiences Applying Parallel and Interoperable Network Simulation
        Techniques in On-line Simulations
                Kalyan Perumalla, Richard Fujimoto, Thom McLean, George Riley
 

  Session 5 (13:30-15:00) - MISCELLANEOUS I

  Chair: Rob Simmonds

        Updateable Simulations
                Steve L. Ferenci, Richard M. Fujimoto, George F. Riley
                Mostafa Ammar

        Analysis of Composite Synchronization
                David  Nicol

        Stone Axes and Warhammers: A Decade of Distributed Simulation
        in Aviation Research
                Frank Sogandares
 

  (15:30-17:15) - Panel discussion: A user's perspective on distributed simulation
                            Dr. Ernie Page, Chair
                            Participants:
                               COL Charles Ball, U.S. Army STRICOM
                               Dr. Russ Richardson, SAIC
                               Mr. Greg Tackett, U.S. Army AMCOM
                               Ms. Jayne Talbot, The MITRE Corp

  (17:15-18:00) - PADS business meeting

  (19:30-22:00) - Conference Dinner
 
 

Wednesday May 15:

  Session 6 (9:00-10:00) - OPTIMISTIC SIMULATION II

  Chair: John DiLeo

        Software Control Systems for Parallel Simulation
                Philip Wilsey, Radharamanan Radhakrishnan

        Conditional Checkpoint Abort: an Alternative Semantic for
        Re-synchronization in CCL
                Francesco Quaglia, Andrea Santoro, Bruno Ciciani
 
 

  Session 7 (10:30-11:30) - MISCELLANEOUS II

  Chair: Andrea Santoro

        Lookback: A New Way of Exploiting Parallelism in Discrete Event
        Simulation
                Gilbert Chen, Boleslaw K. Szymanski

        Experiment Scheduling in Faster than Real Time Simulation
                Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos
 

  (11:45-12:15) -  Work in Progress/Wrap-Up