ACM SIGSIM PADS 2021 Final Program
May 31 - June 2, 2021
Old Dominion University VMASC
Suffolk, Virginia, USA
| All times are in Eastern Time (ET; UTC-5 time zone) Each plenary session will have a 5-minute summary of the article and 5 minutes to answer questions. After each paper is presented, the session shifts to a panel to engage the audience. |
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Monday, May 31, 2021 |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 am | |||
| General Chairs’ Welcome to SIGSIM PADS 2021 Drs Andreas Tolk (The MITRE Corporation, USA) and Saikou Diallo (Old Dominion University, USA) |
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| 9:10 - 9:20 am | |||
| Program Chair Introduction to SIGSIM PADS 2021 Dr Philippe J. Giabbanelli (Miami University, USA) |
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| 9:20 - 10:30 am |
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Session Chair: Dr Nathalie Japkowicz, American University, USA |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 am | |||
| Break | |||
| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Derek Groen, Brunel University London, UK Session 2: Agent-Based Models Multi-Agent Systems and Digital Twins for Smarter Cities Thomas Clemen, Nima Ahmady-Moghaddam, Ulfia A. Lenfers, Florian Ocker, Daniel Osterholz, Jonathan Strobele, Daniel Glake Causality and Consistency of State Update Schemes in Synchronous Agent-based Simulations Wen Jun Tan, Philipp Andelfinger, David Eckoff, Wentong Cai, Alois Knoll When the Wisdom of Crowd is Able to Overturn an Unpopular Norm? Lessons Learned from an Agent-Based Simulation Kashif Zia, Umar Farooq, Alois Ferscha |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | |||
Virtual Lunch Break |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 pm |
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| Keynote Session Chair: Dr Saikou Diallo, Old Dominion University, USA Keynote Speech: “Music, Biology, and Math: An Evolutionary Play in the Ecological Theater” Dr Jon C. Cline, The MITRE Corporation, USA |
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| 2:00 - 2:05 pm | |||
| Introduction to the Ph.D. Colloquium Dr Hamdi Kavak, George Mason University, USA |
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| 2:05 - 2:45 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Hamdi Kavak, George Mason University, USA Session 3: Ph.D. Colloquium on Parallel Computing Threading Event Scheduling in Discrete Event Simulations Brandon Waddell and Jim Leathrum Towards Parallel DEVS Simulation Executions on Heterogeneous Platforms Guillermo Trabes, Veronica Gil Costa, Gabriel Wainer Integrating I/O Time to Virtual Time System for High Fidelity Container-Based Network Emulation Gong Chen and Dong Jin |
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| 2:45 - 3:00 pm | |||
| Break | |||
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Hamdi Kavak, George Mason University, USA Session 4: Ph.D. Colloquium on Agent-Based Modeling Simulating Urban Shrinkage in Detroit via Agent-Based Modeling Na Jiang, Andrew Crooks, Wenjing Wang, Yichun Xie BEAUT: An Explainable Deep Learning Model for Agent-Based Populations with Poor Data Andrew Fisher, Bart Gajderowicz, Eric Latimer, Tim Aubry, Vijay Mago Explainable models with feature selection and cooperative game theory Gayane Grigoryan and Andrew Collins Computational Modeling of the Social Complexity in Göbekli Tepe Niloofar Bagheri-Jebelli |
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| 4:00 - 4:15 pm | |||
| Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:00 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Hamdi Kavak, George Mason University, USA Session 5: Ph.D. Colloquium on Advanced Techniques in Modeling & Simulation 5G New Radio Wireless Chanell Sounding using Machine Learning Ben Earle, Ala’A Al-Habashna, Gabriel Wainer Epistemology and Ontology using Experimental Frames Talal Qamar and Gabriel Wainer Natural Language Understanding in Support of Semi-Automatic Model Development David Shuttleworth and Jose Padilla Increasing speed and granularity of product-based scenario development through Fuzzy Cognitive system modeling and Machine Learning Christopher Davis |
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| 5:00 pm |
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| End of Day 1 | |||
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 am | |||
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Breakfast with the editor Session Chair: Dr Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Miami University, USA Dr Anthony Chang, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligence-Based Medicine (Elsevier) |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 am | |||
| Breakfast with the editor Session Chair: Dr Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Old Dominion University, USA Dr Navonil Mustafee, Joint Editor, Journal of Simulation (Taylor & Francis) |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 am | |||
| Break | |||
| 10:15 - 11:20 am | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Dhananjai Rao, Miami University, USA Session 6: Advances in Simulation Execution Speculative Parallel Execution for Local Timestepping Maximilian Bremer, John Bachan, Cy Chan, Clint Dawson Load-Aware Dynamic Time Synchronization in Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Ali Eker, Yehia Arafa, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy, Nandakishore Santhi, Stephan Eidenbenz, Dmitry Ponomarev A Parallel Hierarchical Sort-based Interest Matching Algorithm Tang Wenjie, Yiping Yao, Feng Zhu, Wentong Cai, Bin Chen |
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| 11:20 - 11:30 am | |||
| Break | |||
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Christopher Carothers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Session 7: Distributed Environments An IoT-oriented Multiple Data Replicas Placement Strategy in Hybrid Fog-Cloud Environment Noura Ben Salah and Narjes Bellamine Ben Saoud Hot Area Targeting Dead Reckoning for Distributed Virtual Environments Youfu Chen, Wentong Cai, Elvis S. Liu |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | |||
Virtual Lunch Break |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | |||
| Keynote Session Chair: Dr Andreas Tolk, The MITRE Corporation, USA Keynote Speech: “The digital patient and the digital neighborhood: implications for modeling and simulation in healthcare” Dr C. Donald Combs, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
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| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | |||
| Session Chair: Dr Rhys Goldstein, Autodesk Research, Canada Session 8: Discrete Event Simulations DEVS-based Evaluation of UAVs-based Target-search Strategies in Realistically-modeled Missions Juan Bautista Bordon Ruiz, Eva Besada-Portas, Jose Luis Risco-Martin, Jose Antonio Lopez Orozco High-Performance PDES on Manycore Clusters Barry Williams, Ali Eker, Kenneth Chiu, Dmitry Ponomarev COSIDIA: An Approach for Real-Time Parallel Discrete Event Simulations Tailored for Wireless Networks Christina Obermaier, Raphael Riebl, Christian Facchi, Ali H. Al-Bayatti, Sarmadullah Khan |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | |||
| Social hour. Facilitated by Dr Andreas Tolk, The MITRE Corporation, USA |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | |||
| SIGSIM PADS Business Meeting |
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| 5:00 pm | |||
| End of PADS 2021 |
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