May 18-21, 2014

Denver, Colorado, USA

ACM SIGSIM PADS 2014 Final Program

The organizing committee and the final conference program are presented here.

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ACM SIGSIM PADS 2014 Organizing Committee


May 18-21, 2014

Denver, Colorado, USA

 

General Chair

personel bio picJohn A. (Drew) Hamilton, Jr.
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Associate Vice President for Research
Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi, USA

 
 

Program Chairs

personel bio picRichard M. Fujimoto
Regents' Professor
School of Computational Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology 
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

personel bio picGeorge F. Riley
Professor
Computer Systems and Software (Group Chair)
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 

Tutorials and Workshops Chair

personel bio picLevent Yilmaz
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama, USA
 

Publicity Chair

personel bio picNavonil Mustafee
Lecturer
Business School
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon EX4, UK
 

 

 

ACM SIGSIM PADS 2014 Final Program

 

ACM SIGSIM PADS 2014 Chairs’ Welcome

 

Sunday, May 18, 2014: Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session
Period Room Event
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Lunch (with round table introduction among the students)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Keynote Speech by Paul Fishwick
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Oral Presentations by the selected 5 Students
8 mins for presentation + 2 mins for questions
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Break, and Student Poster Preparation Time
3:15 – 4:00 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Poster Session
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Inspire Brilliance Judges meet to select the student who will receive the 2014 ACM SIGSIM PADS Ph.D. Colloquium Award
  1. Karen Doore (University of Texas at Dallas) - A Trio of Interactive Representations of a Predator Prey Dynamic System
  2. Daniel Ocansey (North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University) - Equivalent Source Model of Low-Frequency Sounds over a Soft Undulating Surface
  3. Sounak Gupta (University of Cincinatti) - Lock-Free Pending Event Set Management in Time Warp
  4. Misbah Mubarak (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) - Using Parallel Simulation for Extreme-Scale Network Co-design
  5. Jianan Hao (Nanyang Technological University) - Entropy-based Evaluation Framework of Information Exposure Attacks in Network Games

 

Sunday, May 18, 2014: Tutorials
5:15 – 6:45 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Tutorial: Parallel Discrete Event Simulation using Supercomputers, Cloud/VM, and Accelerators
Dr. Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratories

 

Sunday, May 18, 2014: Welcome Reception
Period Room Event
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Energy Room Welcome Reception

 

Monday, May 19, 2014
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. / Room: 550 Bar Area
  Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Keynote Speech 1: “The Earth System Modeling Framework: Interoperability Infrastructure for High Performance Climate and Weather Models” by Cecelia DeLuca
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
  Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 1: Optimistic Simulation Methods
Chair: Jason Liu
  LORAIN: A Step Closer to the PDES Holy Grail
Justin Lapre, Elsa Gonsiorowski, and Christopher Carothers
  Lock-Free Pending Event Set Management in Time Warp 
Sounak Gupta and Philip Wilsey
  A Case Study in Using Massively Parallel Simulation for Extreme-Scale Network Codesign
Misbah Mubarak, Christopher D. Carothers, Robert B. Ross, and Philip Carns
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
  Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 2: Traffic Simulation
Chair: Wentong Cai
  Mesoscopic Traffic Simulation on CPU/GPU
Yan Xu, Xiaosong Li, Xiao Song, and Gary Tan
  Sim-Tree: Indexing Moving Objects in Large-Scale Parallel Microscopic Traffic Simulations
Yan Xu and Gary Tan
  GPU-Assisted Hybrid Network Traffic Model
Jason Liu, Yuan Liu, Zhihui Du, and Ting Li
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
  Break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 3: Miscellaneous
Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini
  Modeling and Simulation of Data Center Networks
Reem Alshahrani and Hassan Peyravi
  A Stream-Based Architecture for the Management and Online Analysis of Unbounded Amounts of Simulation Data
Johannes Schützel, Holger Meyer, and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

 

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. / Room: 550 Bar Area
  Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Keynote Speech 2: “Applying Modeling and Simulation for Development of Embedded Systems” by Gabriel A. Wainer
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
  Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 4: Multi-Core
Chair: Danhua Peng
  Exploring Many-Core Architecture Design Space for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
Yi Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Dmitry Ponomarev, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
  Transparent Multi-Core Speculative Parallelization of DES Models with Event and Cross-State Dependencies
Alessandro Pellegrini and Francesco Quaglia
  Synchronization for Dynamic Load Balancing of Decentralized Conservative Distributed Simulation
Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque, and Liam Murphy
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
  Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 5: Simulation Methods
Chair: Phil Wilsey
  Accelerating Parallel Agent-based Epidemiological Simulations
Dhananjai Rao
  Multi-Fidelity Modeling & Simulation Methodology for Simulation Speed Up
Seon Han Choi, Sun Ju Lee, and Tag Gon Kim
  Towards Semantic Model Composition via Experiments
Danhua Peng, Roland Ewald, and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
  Break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Work-in-Progress (WIP) Session
Chair: Richard Fujimoto
  Phold Performance for Distributed Network Simulation under Conservative Synchronization Methods in ns-3
Jared Ivey and George Riley
  Securing Industrial Control Systems with a Simulation-based Verification System
Kevin Jin
  Volunteer 15 Minute WIP Talks
See George Riley or Richard Fujimoto to schedule a 15 minute time slot

 

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. / Room: 550 Bar Area
  Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 6: Time Management and Miscellaneous
Chair: Paul Fishwick
  Integrated Simulation and Emulation Using Adaptive Time Dilation
Hee Won Lee, Mihail Sichitiu, and David Thuente
  TimeKeeper: A Lightweight Virtual Time System for Linux
Jereme Lamps, David Nicol, and Matthew Caesar
  Hierarchical Resource Management for Enhancing Performance of Large-Scale Simulations on Data Centers
Zengxiang Li, Xiaorong Li, and Wentong Cai
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
  Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Room: Inspire Brilliance
  Session 7: Miscellaneous
Chair: Li Zengxlang
  Power Consumption of Data Distribution Management for On-Line Simulations
SaBra Neal, Gaurav Kanitkar, and Richard Fujimoto
  Computing as Model-Based Empirical Science
Paul Fishwick

 

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