ADS13

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2013 Agent-directed Simulation (ADS'13) Symposium
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University
Co-Chair: Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa

Program Chair: Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame
Program Co-Chair: Maarten Sierhuis, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA ARC
Program Co-Chair: Yu Zhang, Trinity University

The Agent-directed Simulation (ADS) Symposium is the premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent community as well as the simulation community.

The purpose of the ADS symposium is to facilitate dissemination of the most recent advancements in the theory, methodology, application, and toolkits of agent-directed simulation. Agent-directed simulation is comprehensive in the integration of agent and simulation technologies, by including models that use agents to develop domain-specific simulations, i.e., agent simulation (this is often referred to as agent-based simulation -when other two important aspects are not considered), and by also including the use of agent technology to develop simulation techniques and toolkits that are subsequently applied, either with or without agents.

Hence, agent-directed simulation consists of three distinct, yet related areas that can be grouped under two categories as follows:

• Simulation for Agents (agent simulation): simulation of agent systems in engineering, human and social dynamics, military applications etc.
• Agents for Simulation (which has two aspects): agent-supported simulation deals with the use of agents as a support facility to enable computer assistance in problem solving or enhancing cognitive capabilities; and agent-based simulation that focuses on the use of agents for the generation of model behavior in a simulation study.

Through the theme of agent-directed simulation, the symposium will bring together agent technologies, tools, toolkits, platforms, languages, methodologies, and applications in a pragmatic manner. In this symposium, established researchers, educators, and students are encouraged to come together and discuss the benefits of agent technology in their use and application for simulation. It is a way for people to discuss why and how they have used agent technology in their simulations, and describe the benefit of having done so.

The theme of ADS'13 is based on the observation of the following premises:

The growth of new advanced distributed computing standards along with the rapid rise of e-commerce are providing a new context that acts as a critical driver for the development of next generation systems. These standards revolve around service-oriented technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, Grid, autonomic computing, ambient intelligence etc. The supporting role that intelligent agents play in the development of such systems is becoming pervasive, and simulation plays a critical role in the analysis and design of such systems.

The use of emergent agent technologies at the organization, interaction (e.g., coordination, negotiation, communication) and agent levels (i.e. reasoning, autonomy) are expected to advance the state of the art in various application domains. However, modeling and testing complex agent systems that are based on such technologies is difficult. Using agent-supported simulation techniques for testing complex agent systems is up and coming field.

To facilitate bridging the gap between research and application, there is a need for tools, agent programming languages, and methodologies to analyze, design, and implement complex, non-trivial agent-based simulations. Existing agent-based simulation tools are still not mature enough to enable developing agents with varying degrees cognitive and reasoning capabilities.

ADS 2013 will provide a leading forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse simulation societies within computer science, social sciences, engineering, business, education, human factors, and systems engineering. The involvement of various agent-directed simulation groups will enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and development of new perspectives by fostering novel advanced solutions, as well as enabling technologies for agent-directed simulation.

Program Topics

• Theory/methodology:
  • High-level agent specification languages for modeling and simulation.
  • Agent programming and simulation modeling languages.
  • Distributed simulation for multi-agent systems.
  • Formal models of agents and agent societies.
  • Advanced agent features for agent-directed simulation: e.g.:
  • Holonic agents for cooperation and coopetition modeling and simulation.
  • Agents with personality, agents with dynamic personality, agents with emotions, agents having different types of intelligence such as emotional intelligence, agents with multi-intelligence.
  • Influence of cultural backgrounds in agent-directed simulation.
  • Agents with several types of understanding abilities such as multivision and switchable understanding abilities, trustworthy agents, and moral agents in simulation.
  • Agent-based simulation to monitor multi-simulation studies.
  • Agents in design and monitoring of simulation experiments and analysis of results.
  • Verification, validation, testing; quality assurance; as well as failure avoidance in agent-directed simulations.
• Technology, tools, toolkits, and environments:
  • Agent infrastructures and supporting technologies (e.g., interoperability, agent-oriented software engineering environments).
  • Modeling, design, and simulation of agent systems based on service-oriented technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, grid computing, autonomic computing, ambient intelligence.
  • Agent architectures, platforms, and frameworks.
  • Standard APIs for agent simulation programming.
• Applications:
  • Simulation modeling of agent technologies at the organization, interaction (e.g., communication, negotiation, coordination, collaboration) and agent level (e.g., deliberation, social agents, computational autonomy).
  • Application of agent simulations in various areas such as biology, business, commerce, economy, engineering, environment, individual, group, and organizational behavior, management, simulation gaming/training, social systems.
  • Conflict management simulation with holonic agents.
  • Modeling and simulation of emergence.

International Program Committee

• Fernando Barros, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Rafael Bordini. Durham University, UK
• Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
• Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Rosario Conte, National Research Council, Italy
• Mehdi Dastani, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Paul Davis, RAND and RAND Graduate School, USA
• Virginia Dignum, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
• Bernard Espinasse, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France
• Paul Fishwick, University of Florida, USA
• Claudia Frydman, LSIS, France
• Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, France
• Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
• John Hiles, MOVES Institute, USA
• Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
• C. Anthony Hunt, UCSF, USA
• Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA
• Andras Jávor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Christine Lisetti, Institut Eurecom, France
• Desmond Saunders-Newton, USC and DARPA-IAO, USA
• Ernest Page, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Sunwoo Park, UCSF, USA
• Paolo Petta, Centre for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Alessondro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
• Glen Ropella, UCSF, USA
• Charles Santoni, LSIS, France
• Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
• Jeffrey Schamburg, U.S. Army TRAC - Monterey, USA
• Jeffrey Smith, Auburn University, USA
• Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, USA
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
• Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
• Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College, Norway
• Il-Chul Moon, KAIST, Korea
• Okan Topçu - Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey

ANSS13

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46th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'13)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Eric Imsand, GaN Corporation
Co-Chair: Shaoen Wu, University of Southern Mississippi

Program Chair: Qishi Wu, University of Memphis

The Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'13) is a forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and applications among practitioners of simulation in industry, government, and academia. This international Symposium is the oldest continuously operating conference/symposium dedicated to simulation. The paper sessions are designed to promote discussion of concepts, tools, methodologies, and results between authors and the audience. The structure of the Symposium also provides for a degree of collegiality and continuity in the discussions of the various topics presented during the week.

Original contributions in all areas of modeling and simulation are welcome. This year's Symposium is particularly seeking papers in the following topical areas:

• Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Modeling and Simulation of Internet of Things
• Novel Applications of Modeling and Simulation
• Service-oriented Computing and Simulation
• Web-based Modeling and Simulation
• Simulation Languages, Tools, and Environments
• Simulation of Multiprocessor Architectures
• Simulation of Distributed Systems and Databases
• Simulation of Parallel Processing Systems
• Simulation based Performance Analysis
• Simulation of Sensor Networks
• Simulation of Large Scale Systems
• Simulation of Clusters, Grids, and Clouds
• Simulation of Client-Server Systems
• Simulation of Wireless Systems
• Simulation and Emulation of Embedded systems
• Pervasive Computing
• Smart Network Design and Traffic Modeling
• Routing and Mobility Management in Networks
• Mobile and Nomadic Computing
• Energy-aware Schemes for Wireless Networks
• Simulation of Real-time Systems
• Parallel and Distributed Simulation
• Simulation based Software Performance
• Reliability and Maintenance Models
• Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Cognitive Modeling and Simulation
• Artificial Intelligence in Simulation
• Neural Network Models and Simulation
• Animations/Virtual Reality
• Advances in Simulation Methodology and Practices
• Experimental Design
• Statistical Analysis and Inference
• Verification and Validation
• Selection and Comparison Procedures

CNS13

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16th Communications and Networking Symposium (CNS'13)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University
Steering Committee:

• Aftab Ahmad, Norfolk State University, VA
• Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, FL
• Abdolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;
• Yelena Rykalova, Boston University, MA

Communications and Networks are the heart and the nerve system of Information Technology which profoundly affecting our daily lives. Web 2.0, social networks, mobile devices, smart cell phones, advances in Cloud Computing, and other disruptive technologies are continuing to dominate our communication spectrums. We are witnessing exploding growth in services generated by the networking community to all users; public or private, military or government, educational or industry, healthcare or finance, scientific or entertainment. Quality of service, Security, Interoperability, fast access, and many other important user requirements can be studied, monitored, and predicted by using simulation techniques.

The 16th Communications and Networking Symposium (CNS'13) invites experts, researchers, developers, managers, and entrepreneurs in this dynamic field to publish and share their findings with their peers in this symposium and discuss the challenges and successes in their pursuit of advancing their focused areas.

We welcome papers describing design principles as well as applications pertinent to the above tracts with special emphasis on modeling and simulation of communications and networks. Papers are solicited in the following (but not limited to) area of interests for peer review and presentation in the conference:

• Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Performance
  • Cloud Security
  • Cloud Interoperability
  • Hybrid & Enterprise Cloud Architecture
  • Virtualization & Data Centers
  • Simulation on the Cloud
  • Simulation tools for Cloud Computing
• Simulation in Healthcare
• Electronic Healthcare Records
• Military Healthcare System & Infrastructure
• Public Healthcare System & Infrastructure
• Cyberspace Security
• Network Security
• Security of Mobile Devices
• Big Data modeling and Simulation
• Information Retrieval and Search Engines
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Web
• Network Security and Management
• Network Design and Performance Analysis
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Wireless Communications and Mobile Networks
• Traffic Engineering and Measurements
• Clusters and Grid Computing & Communications
• Distributed Simulation and Real Time Systems
• High Level Architecture Simulation and Application
• Network Centric Defense Application
• Virtual Environments and Virtual Classrooms
• Web-Based Simulation and Applications
• Peer-to-Peer Communications and Computations
• Data Communications and Protocols
• NS3 Simulation Case Studies
• Large Scale Networks simulation
• Simulation Tools for Communications and Networks
• Internet and Mobile QoS Architectures
• Modeling Techniques, Verification and Validation

Technical Program Committee

• Abodolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada
• Aftab Ahmad, Norfolk state University, USA
• Shakil Akhtar, Clayton State University, USA
• Mohamad Badra, LIMOS Laboratory, CNRS France
• Bohdan Bodnar, Lemko Corporation, USA
• Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of San Diego, CA
• Arnold Brag, RTI International, USA
• Xuejun Cai, Nokia Siemens Networks, China
• Jin Seek Choi, Hanyang University, Korea
• James Conrad University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
• Max Ehammer, University of SalzMburg, Austria
• Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, USA
• Alexander Ferworn, Ryerson University, Canada
• Jonathan Graham, Norfolk State University, USA
• Wolfang Haidegger, Siemens, Austria
• Youn-Hee Han, Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea
• Wael, Ibrahim, ECPI College of Technology, USA
• Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University, Canada
• Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
• Susan Lincke-Salecker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA
• Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University, USA
• Ilkyeun Ra, University of Colorado Denver, USA
• Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University, USA
• J.K. Kevin Rhee, Information and Communications University, Korea
• Anton Riedl, Christopher Newport University, USA
• George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Mona Rizvi, Norfolk State University, USA
• Yelena Rykalova, Boston University, USA
• Salah Sharieh, McMaster University, CA
• Sachin Shetty, Rowan University, USA
• Chulho "Charles" Won, California State University, USA
• Alenca Zajic, AlZaComm, USA
• Lev Sofman, Alcatel-Lucent North America, USA
• Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
• Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, USA

EAIA13

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Symposium on Emerging M&S Applications in Industry and Academia (EAIA'13)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Rafael Diaz, Old Dominion University
Co-Chair: Francesco Longo, University of Calabria

The Symposium for Emerging Applications of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) in Industry and Academia (EAIA) has evolved into a hub for new ideas and successful applications thereof. The focus is on innovative applications of M&S in theory and practice. As such, we are looking for papers that show successful and promising trends. For 2013, we offer seven topic categories plus the "Other Emerging Application" category to be able to give a home to good papers that do not fit into the other categories.

• M&S and Education will continue to look how M&S can be used to enrich education, ranging from public education in middle and high schools over colleges and universities to education of the work force.
• M&S and Engineering has its focus on engineering applications of M&S as well as applying engineering methods to M&S. This includes new engineering management efforts, such as Scrum for M&S, or applying M&S as a Green Technology.
• Business and Industry Simulation Applications shows "where the rubber meets the road." Where is M&S really making a difference in Industry? How can we optimize processes and businesses using new methods that combine M&S and heuristics?
• M&S and Risk Management is looking for contributions regarding theory and application of supporting Risk Management with the full spectrum of M&S.
• M&S and Philosophy is a new topic for EAIA, but as M&S grows as its own discipline, it is time to address some philosophical questions, including the question of how M&S is influenced and influences Philosophy and our understanding of what we understand.
• M&S and Law Enforcement is starting to become a new application domain. The objective is to give a home to papers that evaluate the potential and applicability of the whole M&S spectrum to support law enforcement in training, analysis, and operations.
• M&S Technology Transition is a contemporary interest to avoid the frequent loss of great ideas between R&D and distribution organizations. We are looking for lessons learned and methods derived to enable knowledge transfer.
• Other Emerging Applications is interested other innovative applications of M&S in theory and practice.

Details about the Tracks

M&S and Education

Many educational institutions have begun to offer either courses or entire degree programs in modeling and simulation (M&S). This track is soliciting papers that explore the emerging field of M&S education and the issues surrounding its development and use. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Modeling and simulation as its own discipline
• Modeling and simulation body of knowledge: what should be included?
• Modeling and simulation curriculum: engineering, science, or multidisciplinary?
• Modeling and simulation research and its role in education
• Modeling, simulation, and gaming as a teaching tool
• Modeling and simulation and workforce development: what are the challenges?

M&S and Engineering

The viewpoint of the symposium shows the neighborhood of M&S applications to the engineering discipline that is also more interested in finding applicable solutions (in contrast to science where the focused is more on extending the knowledge). Theoretical underpinnings are welcome, but the track will provide a forum for papers that address the engineering style applications of modeling and simulation. Simulation replaces more and more the traditional experimentation. Where until recently prototypes were created to conduct experiments, virtual prototypes are increasingly used in support of the engineering process. In order to support this use of M&S in engineering, the simulation must fulfill certain requirements, such as being verified and validated for the particular use, or that all data can be obtained in the required form and with the right content. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following examples:

• Systems Engineering for M&S / M&S for Systems Engineering
• Engineering Management for M&S / M&S for Engineering Management
• Requirements for M&S in the context of engineering
• M&S in the Lifecycle of Engineering Support of Systems

Business and Industry Simulation Applications

The Business and Industry Simulation track is one of the best established tracks within EAIA. Operational and financial stresses in conjunction with the demands of customers, both external and internal, have intensified pressure for competent industrial operations. The evolution of complex systems operating within intricate environments has placed pressure on the configuration and performance of agile, efficient, and flexible industrial operations. Firms are recognizing that the continual enhancement of existing operations is essential to gaining and holding a competitive edge. Government organizations today can effectively evaluate solutions for complex challenges in transportation, health care, security, or environmental effects before making decisions. This call for papers aims to highlight academic foundations as well as real-world industrial applications focusing on lessons learned, experienced constraints, and proof of concepts and generalizability of implemented solutions using M&S in such environments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following examples:

• Supply chain M&S
• Simulation-based decision support systems
• Transportation managent M&S
• Health Care management M&S
• M&S applications in institutional or defense environment
• M&S applications Manufacuting or service industry

M&S and Risk Management

There has been compelling signs of the great potential of building further synergy with academics, researchers, and industry practitioners from the areas of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) in coping with Emergent Risks. M&S’s potential goes far beyond its power to tell us how systems may, would, and should work.And for this same reason, M&S also has a great and still untapped power to tell us how complex systems may fail. Nonetheless, there needs to be the conscious and deliberate attempt to harness this power by bringing together current knowledge and game-changing ideas from the best academics, researchers, and industry practitioners in M&S and Emergent Risk Management. Objectives of the track comprise benchmarking current practices on how M&S are being used in managing emergent risks, identifying important and high-yield research activities towards better application of M&S in managing emergent risk, and developing synergistic collaboration among participants. Topics of interest to this track are:

• Types of risks suitably addressed by M&S (e.g. technical, programmatic, financial)
• M&S within the risk management processes (e.g. risk identification, assessment, management)
• Spectrum of M&S solutions to risk problems (e.g. complexity, resolution)
• Paradigms for risk problems (e.g. system dynamics, discrete event, agent-based)

M&S and Philosophy

Many M&S researchers are not explicitly aware of their philosophical research assumption and the ontological, epistemological, and teleological implications thereof. Ontology is the study of being or the study of what exists, often captured as a system defined by a finite set of systems. Computational representations thereof are only a small subset. Epistemology is the study of how we come to know, or how we define knowledge, represent it, and communicate it with others. Teleology is the study of action and purpose, resulting in methods.

Often without knowing it, M&S experts sub-scribe with their methods to a positivistic worldview. In short, positivism is rooted in the belief that truth exists on its own, it is indepen-dent of the observer and reality is separated from the individual who observes it. The traditional scientific method is rooted in positivism. The al-ternative viewpoint is interpretivism that holds the belief that truth is a construct of the observer. Reality is relative and cannot be separated from the individual who observes it. Following topics are of interest to this track:

• Philosophical underpinning of M&S
• Ontology, Epistomology, and Teleology of M&S
• Theory of M&S
• Russel-like paradoxes
• Answers to life the universe and everything

M&S and Law Enforcement

The Department of Justice established a Technical Working Group on Modeling and Simulation to coordinate the application of M&S solutions and research of M&S capabilities of interest. Currently, M&S within the Department of Justice is focused on – but not limited to – training, in particular for Law Enforcement organizations. One of the main facilities to support training is the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Georgia. FLETC utilizes M&S as one option to provide better training to Law Enforcement officer. Furthermore, several training systems developed for other departments, in particular training simulation systems developed for the Armed Forces, are evaluated according to the adaptability and applicability for training provided at FLETC. However, the Technical Working Group is also looking at alternative uses of M&S, including serious gaming. The use of emerging technologies, including social networks, is another topic of interest.

Within this track, the current work, vision, and objectives for M&S Support shall be closer evaluated. We are therefore looking for topics like:

• Application transfer from other application domains to law enforcement
• A research agenda for the M&S in the Department of Justice
• Application domains and solutions for M&S in the Department of Justice
• Gaming for law enforcement

M&S Technology Transition

Technology Transition (T2) is a contemporary interest due to the frequent loss of great ideas to the “Valley of Death” between R&D and distribution organizations. Because T2 is often viewed as a process, the goal here is to demonstrate the successful use of modeling and simulation to emulate and facilitate the underlying innovation process to ensure good ideas make their way to candidate users. While developers have internal research and development (IRAD) processes and the sales chain maintain business development processes, the goal here is to describe and demonstrate the too often grey area in-between. The suggested domains over which to describe the large-scale integrated system’s pricing technique include -

• Case Studies on Technology Transition in small, medium and large enterprise
• Use of Technology Transition Agreements within and between organizations
• Use of personnel transfer to disseminate knowledge
• Model based prediction of technology transition success
• Technology Transition Metrics – Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRL) …
• Common metric combination techniques such as Balanced Scorecard, etc.
• Novel project / program management gating techniques
• Colloquially used product / process measures from the software / systems development community
• Leveraging of techniques in other domains (e.g., Taguchi) to describe and maintain user advocacy through the development process
• Methods of leveraging technical talent to assist in technology transition
• Organization reuse / modification vs. design from first principles

HPC13

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21st High Performance Computing Symposia (HPC'13),
Part of the SCS Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'13) in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

General Chair: Fang (Cherry) Liu, Georgia Tech
General Vice-Chair: Karl Rupp, Technische Universitat Wie / Argonne National Laboratory
Program Chair: Rhonda Phillips, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Program Vice Chair: Will Thacker, Winthrop University

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: January 18, 2013
Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2013
Revised manuscript due: March 11, 2013
Symposium: April 7--10, 2013

GENERAL INFORMATION

The 2013 Spring Simulation Multiconference will feature the 21st High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2013), devoted to the impact of high performance computing and communications on computer simulations.

Advances in multicore and many-core architectures, networking, high end computers, large data stores, and middleware capabilities are ushering in a new era of high performance parallel and distributed simulations. Along with these new capabilities come new challenges in computing and system modeling. The goal of HPC 2013 is to encourage innovation in high performance computing and communication technologies and to promote synergistic advances in modeling methodologies and simulation. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information between universities, industry, and national laboratories about new developments in system modeling, high performance computing and communication, and scientific computing and simulation.

Topics of interest include:

• High performance/large scale application case studies
• GPU for general purpose computations (GPGPU)
• Multicore and many-core computing
• Power aware computing
• Cloud, distributed, and grid computing
• Asynchronous numerical methods and programming
• Hybrid system modeling and simulation
• Large scale visualization and data management
• tools and environments for coupling parallel codes
• Parallel algorithms and architectures
• High performance software tools
• Resilience at the simulation level
• Component technologies for high performance computing

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages, double column format) on topics related to the areas listed above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the HPC 2013 review process. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings as regular papers. Papers should be submitted electronically using the paper submission system linked from http://www.scs.org/springsim/2013/. Papers must use SCS format. Formatting instructions are available at http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/Formatting_Kit.pdf. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the symposium and must present the paper at the symposium.

TUTORIALS, PANELS, AND SPECIAL SESSIONS

Proposals for tutorials, panels, and special sessions are welcome; submit such proposals to the general or program chairs by January 18th, 2013.

PUBLICATION

The symposium proceedings will be published in hard copy and on CD-ROM through SCS and will be in the ACM Digital Library.

BEST PAPER AWARD

At least one paper from each symposium will be chosen for a Best Paper Award, which will be recognized in an awards ceremony before a plenary lecture.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please visit the conference website at http://www.scs.org/springsim/2013/HPC or contact the symposium chairs.

SPONSORS

Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) (http://www.scs.org/) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (http://www.acm.org/).

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Marc Baboulin, Inria Saclay -- Ile-de-France and Universite Paris-Sud
• Narsingh Deo, University of Central Florida
• Julien Langou, University of Colorado Denver
• Beth Plale, Indiana University
• William Shoaff, Florida Institute of Technology
• Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
• Niraj Srivastava, Raytheon Corporation
• Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Aron Ahmadia, King Abdullah University
• Alex Aravind, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
• Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada
• Sanjutka Bhowmick, University of Nebraska
• Brett Bode, Ames Laboratory
• Ali Butt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Bin Cao, Teradata Corporation
• Haiyang Cheng, Willamette University
• Jing-Ru C. "Ruth" Cheng, U.S. Army Research and Development Center
• Jose C. Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Nahid Emad, Universite' de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
• Samantha Foley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Gillian K. Groves, Raytheon Company
• Phil Hammonds, RTSync Corporation
• Azzam Haidar, University of Tennessee
• Joshua Hursey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Jim Jones, Florida Tech
• Michael Mascagni, Florida State University
• Gabriel Mateescu, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany
• John Michalakes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory
• Jose Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
• Saeid Nooshabadi, Michigan Technological University
• Suely Oliveira, University of Iowa
• Thomas Oppe, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
• Christian Perez, INRIA/ENS Lyon, France
• Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Jill Reese, Mathworks
• Cal Ribbens, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Gudula Ruenger, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
• Alan Stewart, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
• William A. Ward, CSC, NASA Greenbelt
• Robert White, North Carolina State University
• Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Qin Xin, Universite' Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Ping Yang, Pacific Northwest National Lab
• Qi Hu, University of Maryland

MMS13

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Military Modeling and Simulation (MMS'13)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Saikou Diallo, Old Dominion University
Co-Chair: Kevin Gupton, University of Texas at Austin

The Military Modeling and Simulation Symposium is a series of annual spring gatherings devoted to the full breadth of modeling and simulation in the military domain. In addition to providing a venue for publication and presentation of peer-reviewed papers, the symposium is a place for networking, discussions, and exchange of information with military modelers and simulationists from around the world.

The symposium welcomes papers on any aspect of modeling and simulation related to the military, especially in any of the following areas:

• Simulation Support to Operations
  • Battlefield Visualization
  • Course of Action Analysis
  • Mission Rehearsal
  • In-Theater Training
  • Electronic performance support systems
• Operations and Command and Control
  • Battle field / battle theater simulation
  • Simulation during operations
  • C4I simulation
  • Counterforce operations
  • Airspace management
• Training, Exercises, and Military Operations
  • Simulations in training
  • Simulation / exercise integration
  • Mission Planning & Rehearsal
  • Live, Virtual, Constructive
  • Locomotion and Virtual Worlds
  • Instructional Support for 3D Immersive Worlds
  • Embedded training
  • Assessment
• Serious Games
  • Games in training
  • Game AI for military M&S
  • Leveraging game development experience
  • Computer generated forces
  • Game-based simulation technology
• Simulation for Cyber Warfare
  • Simulating Cyber effects on Military Operations
  • Simulating Cyber-attacks, defense & exploitation
  • Simulation Support to Cyber Training
• Domains (Land, Sea, Air)
  • Synthetic environments / virtual realities
  • Surface and subsurface warfare
  • Avionics, flight control, flight simulation
  • Unmanned vehicles
• Synthetic Environment Development
  • Tools
  • Processes
  • Computer generated forces
  • Agent-based combat modeling
• Physical Modeling and Effects
  • Lethality, vulnerability survivability
  • Impact and penetration modeling
  • Computational fluid and molecular dynamics
  • Structural and solid mechanics modeling
  • Ballistics & propellant simulation
• Advanced Concepts and Requirements
  • Simulation and Experimentation of new concepts
  • Requirements development
  • Predicted impacts of technology integration
  • Informatics and Simulation
  • High performance computing
  • Intelligent systems simulation
• Research, Development, and Acquisition
  • Design, development & acquisition for new weapons systems and equipment
  • Simulation and Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements and Training (SMART)
  • Simulation-based acquisition
  • Governance, Process, and Business Models for M&S

Special Topics

In addition to these general domains of interest, we invite new and innovative papers that address the bleeding edge/next generation of military simulation including but not limited to:

• Challenges in Military system of system interoperability
• Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) challenges and approaches
• Semantic web applications in the military domain
• Big data analytics in the military domain
• Ontology and Formal Methods applied to the military domain

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2013 Modeling and the Humanities (MatH)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Charles Turnitsa, Columbus State University, Georgia
Co-Chair: Ted Carmichael

The humanities are a collection of academic disciplines that all deal with the study of the human condition.  It traditionally includes such disciplines and pursuits as languages, philosophy, history, art, music, literature and so on.  Increasingly, modeling and simulation as a research and/or analysis technique is being used within these disciplines, in very effective ways.

The 2013 Modeling and the Humanities workshop at the Spring Simulation Multi-Conference is actively seeking papers that have to do with (1) techniques that are appropriate to Modeling for disciplines traditionally thought of as part of the humanities, and (2) specific project and applications where Modeling (and simulation) are used within projects of research or analysis for the Humanities, (3) recommendations and observations as to how best Modeling can serve the Humanities, (4) introduction and tutorial presentations on software packages particularly suited for Modeling and the Humanities.

In addition to the paper topics listed above, we are also interested in proposals for panels and guest presentations.

Program Topics

• Modeling techniques appropriate for Humanities studies
• Modeling for History
• Modeling for Language Studies
• Modeling for Philosophy
• Modeling for Art Studies
• Modeling for Music Studies
• Modeling for Literary Studies
• Modeling for Ethics Studies
• Modeling for Societal Studies
• Modeling for Political Science
• Modeling for Urban Studies
• Software Appropriate to Humanities Modeling
• Artificial Digital Societies
• Historical Simulation

Modeling Techniques Papers may include (but not limited to):

• Agent Based Modeling
• Complex Adaptive Systems
• Discrete Event Simulation
• Cellular Automata
• Genetic Algorithms
• Network Modeling
• Continuous Simulation

Please note: General papers on these techniques (and any others) would only be welcome in this workshop if they have some demonstrated applicability to Humanities and related studies.

Workshop organizers:

 Ted Carmichael
 Mirsad Hadzikadic
 Charles Turnitsa
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2013 Poster Symposium
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Shafagh Jafer, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wisconsin, USA
Co-Chair: Mohammad Moallemi, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

We are seeking outstanding short paper (2 pages) submissions that will be presented in a poster format at the conference. Short papers should present interesting recent results, novel ideas or works-in-progress that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. Student papers are welcome. Paper submissions are encouraged in all areas of modeling and simulation as mentioned in SpringSim'13 Call for Papers. In particular we are seeking papers in the following areas:

• Computer/Communication Networks with Special Emphasis on Modeling and Simulation
• Numerical Simulation and Optimization as Applied to Business and Industry
• Use of Modeling and Simulation in the Area of Computer Security
• Modeling and Simulation in the area of Neural Networks
• Modeling and Simulation related to Image/Video Compression/Processing and Robotic Vision
• Any Aspect of Modeling and Simulation related to the Military
• Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Telecommunication Systems
• Web-based Modeling and Simulation
• High-performance Computing and Simulation
• Network/Internet Traffic Modeling and Workload Characterization
• Simulation Languages, Tools, and Environments
• Simulation of Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems and Databases
• Simulation of Clusters, Grids and Wireless Systems
• Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Modeling and Simulation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems
• Simulation Methodology, Theory and Philosophy
• Parallel and Distributed Simulators and Simulation Techniques
• Application of Modelling and Simulation in Biology
• Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation

Submission Instructions

Prepare a 2-page paper using the Paper Formatting Guidelines for the conference. All final paper submissions are to be made electronically to SCS via the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System for SpringSim'13 Poster Sessions. Include complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. Papers must be in English. For further instructions, please refer to the Submission Instructions in the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System web site. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Accepted short papers will be presented in the poster session as well as the poster proceedings.

Technical Program Committee

• Qi Liu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
• judicael ribault, Université Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France
• Rodrigo Castro, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• Syed S. Rizvi, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Ahmed Abdalwhab, Carleton University, Canada
• Mohammad Moallemi, Carleton University, Canada
• Shafagh Jafer, Milwaukee School of Engineering, WI, USA
• Hesham Saadawi, Carleton University, Canada
• Qi Zheng, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas, USA

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Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD'13)
April 7 - 10, 2013 | Bahia Resort | San Diego, CA, USA
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Chair: Liam O'Brian, Carleton University
Co-Chair: Azam Khan, Autodesk
Organization Committee Members:

• Christoph Reinhart, MIT
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University
• Michael Glueck, Autodesk
• Marilyne Andersen, EPFL
• Ted Kesik, University of Toronto
• Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Carleton University
• Nancy Clark Brown, Autodesk

We are pleased to announce the third year of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) at the 2013 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim'13) in San Diego, CA, USA from April 7-10, 2013.

Researchers in simulation, architecture, urban design and planning, HCI, ubicomp, infoviz, etc., engineers, software developers, managers, educators, and business professionals who develop or use modeling, simulation, visualization, validation, or interaction techniques or tools related to the built environment are invited to participate and present original papers, data sets, and videos (More information).

All submissions are peer-reviewed and considered for selection by the Committee. All accepted submissions will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The conference is run in collaboration with ACM/SIGSIM and is sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Areas of Interest

SimAUD topics include, but are not limited to:

• Whole System Simulation and Analysis
• Post Occupancy Performance Evaluation
• Building Comfort and Energy Performance
• Design Tools and Methods
• Materials, Components and Innovative Systems
• Multi Disciplinary Optimization
• Simulation Performance and Scalability
• Design and Decision Support
• Energy Performance Simulation and Analysis
• Lighting and Daylighting
• Building occupant behaviour
• Intelligent Building & Building Lifecycle Management
• Sensor Network and Building Performance Monitoring
• Visualization of Simulation-based Data
• Theory and History of Environmental Simulation and Controls

Scientific Committee

• Liam O'Brien, Carleton University
• Azam Khan, Autodesk
• Christoph Reinhart, MIT
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University
• Michael Glueck, Autodesk
• Marilyne Andersen, EPFL
• Ted Kesik, U of Toronto
• Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Carleton
• Nancy Clark Brown, Autodesk
• Lira Nikolovska, Autodesk
• Ramtin Attar, Autodesk
• Rhys Goldstein, Autodesk
• Simon Breslav, Autodesk
• Greg Schleusner, HOK
• Lee Miller, HOK
• Costa Kapsis, Concordia University
• Jose Candanedo, Natural Resources Canada
• YiChao Chen, Concordia University
• Leanne Robinson, Arctic Energy Alliance
• Alan Fung, Ryerson University
• Nethaniel Jones, Cornell University
• Siobhan Rockcastle, EPFL
• Briana Paige Kemery, Carleton University
• Lukas Swan, Dalhousie University
• Andrew Rice, Cambridge University
• Phylroy Lopez, Natural Resources Canada