Frederick L. Lewis
Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)

Monday 8:30–10:00

Admiral Lewis will address the fact of simulation?s achieving standing as a recognizable and significant enabling technology on the national and worldwide agenda. His remarks will illustrate how simulation is becoming identified as a critical discipline and industry, and how simulation is beginning to be appreciated as an essential element of tomorrow?s technical infrastructure.

Fred Lewis graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1962 and was designated a naval aviator in November 1963. After an initial tour of duty as a flight instructor, he trained in the F-4 Phantom and participated in numerous operational deployments to the Atlantic and Pacific, and twice deployed to the Gulf of Tonkin for combat operations over North Vietnam. Subsequently, he attended the US Naval Test Pilot School and led the stand-up of the Atlantic Fleet?s F-14 FRS. Several command assignments followed including his first carrier air wing command when he led the wing in successful operations in the Gulf of Sidra, during which his pilots downed two Libyan fighter aircraft. Various staff assignments in Washington, DC, followed, after which he was given his second air wing command when he inaugurated the Navy?s ?Super CAG? program. Flag assignments including Director, Strike and Amphibious Warfare, Commander, Tactical Wings, Atlantic, and Commander, Naval Safety Center followed in quick succession. He was sent back to sea in 1991 as Commander, Carrier Group FOUR and Commander, Carrier Striking Forces, Atlantic. During a 33-year career, he accumulated over 6,500 accident-free flying hours in tactical aircraft and over 1,200 carrier arrested landings.

Erol Gelenbe
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida

Tuesday 8:30–10:00

Over the last decade, we have introduced new queueing network models with ?negative and positive? customers, as well as with ?triggers,? and have shown that these new stochastic models have product form solutions.

Triggers or signals are special forms of customers whose role is to move other customers from some queue to another queue. Thus they can be used to model explicit controls in systems, such as acknowledgement packets in networks, or messages signifying the need to transfer some work for one processor to the other in a distributed system. Positive customers are the usual customers of a queueing network, while negative customers are used to remove or destroy customers either singly or in batches.

We have developed these models both for single and multiple class representations, and have applied them to a variety of systems. These models also bear a very interesting relationship to neural networks, and this property has been exploited by several authors.

In this presentation, we will survey the main results concerning G-Networks and show how they can be used to model and simulate packet switching networks with adaptive routing.

Erol Gelenbe (IEEE Fellow '86) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida.

Raj Jain
Ohio State University

Wednesday 8:30–10:00

Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is very active in the areas of traffic management and quality of service in data networks. His research has influenced the directions of traffic management and testing working groups of the ATM Forum. He is an active participant in several other industry forums including Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), American National Institute (ANSI), and Telecommunications Institute of America (TIA).

He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM, and a member of the Internet Society, Optical Society of America, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and Fiber Optic Association. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society. He has been giving tutorials on "Hot Topics in Networking" covering the latest advances at NetWorld +InterOp since 1995.

Based on his active participation in the computer industry, Dr. Jain was awarded the 1999 Siliconindia Leadership Awards for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology. He is also the receipient of the 1999 Lumley Engineering Research Award and the 1996 Research Accomplishment Award by Ohio State University, College of Engineering, and the 1995 Ameritech Prize by Ohio State University.

Dennis K. McBride
Executive Director
Institute for Simulation and Training

Wednesday 12:00–1:30

Dr. McBride will address the evolution of the simulation industry from the perspective of today?s complex enterprise structures. His remarks will illustrate the inevitably intimate relationships among industry, academia, and government in the development of the simulation industry, and will indicate the opportunities available to take advantage of flexibility of enterprise structure and concepts of operations in responding to the burgeoning demand for simulation expertise, infrastructure, and applications.