June 21 - 23, 2023 | Orlando, Florida, USA

ACM SIGSIM PADS 2023

Submission deadlines extended
PADS'23, the next edition of the flagship conference of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (SIGSIM), will be held at the Orlando World Marriott resort in Florida, USA, as part of the multi-conference ACM Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC'23.

Call for Papers

PhD Colloquium

PADS'23 features a PhD Colloquium track for doctoral students.
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Regular and Short Papers

Submissions

Submissions for regular papers are now open.

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Keynotes

PADS'23 will include keynote speakers shared with the ACM FCRC multi-conference.

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Technical Program

All times are listed in US Eastern time zone.

  • 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM

    Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Speakers: Margaret Loper (General Co-Chair), Kevin Jin (General Co-Chair), and Chris Carothers (Program Co-Chair)

  • 08:20 AM - 09:30 AM

    Keynote#1

    Session Chair: Christopher Carothers

    Title: Research Opportunities in Simulation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Visit to Abstract and Bio
    Speaker: Kalyan Perumalla, Ph.D., Program Manager, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy

  • 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM

    Break

  • 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM

    Paper Session 1. Simulation Methodology

    Session Chair: Steffen Strassburger

    1. Philipp Andelfinger, Till Köster and Adelinde Uhrmacher. Zero Lookahead? Zero Problem. The Window Racer Algorithm. Time: 09:40 – 10:10 AM
    2. Zhuoxiao Meng, Anibal Siguenza-Torres, Mingyue Gao, Margherita Grossi, Alexander Wieder, Xiaorui Du, Stefano Bortoli, Christoph Sommer and Alois Knoll. Towards Discrete-Event, Aggregating, and Relational Control Interfaces for Traffic Simulation Time: 10:10 - 10:40 AM

  • 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM

    Break

  • 11:20 AM - 12:30 PM

    FCRC Plenary Talk

  • 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

    Lunch

  • 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

    Paper Session 2. Network Simulation

    Session Chair: Jason Liu

    1. Yao Kang, Xin Wang and Zhiling Lan. Workload Interference Prevention with Intelligent Routing and Flexible Job Placement on Dragonfly Time: 1:00 - 1:30 PM
    2. Gong Chen, Zheng Hu and Dong Jin. Enhancing Fidelity of P4-Based Network Emulation with a Lightweight Virtual Time System Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM

  • 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM

    Break

  • 02:15 PM - 03:05 PM

    PhD Collouquim #1

    Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini

    1. Anibal Siguenza-Torres. Towards a Performance-Aware Partitioning Algorithm for Cloud-Based Microscopic Vehicle Traffic Simulations Time: 2:15 - 2:25 PM
    2. Till Köster. Efficient Execution for Domain Specific Languages: Comparing Two Approaches for Demography and Cellular Biology Time: 2:25 - 2:35 PM
    3. Joao Dantas. Autonomous Agent for Beyond Visual Range Air Combat: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach Time: 2:35 - 2:45 PM
    4. Gong Chen. Combining Power Simulation and Programmable Network Emulation for Smart Grid Security Application Evaluation Time: 2:45 - 2:55 PM
    5. Adriano Pimpini. Towards accessible Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks Time: 2:55 - 3:05 PM

  • 03:05 PM - 03:20 PM

    Break

  • 03:20 PM - 04:00 PM

    PhD Colloquium #2

    Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini

    1. Hamed Najafi. DeepSim: A Transformer Based Model For Fast Simulation And Exploring Computer System Design Space Time: 3:20 - 3:30 PM
    2. Pratik Poudel. Storage System Trace Characterization, Compression, and Synthesis using Machine Learning Time: 3:30 - 3:40 PM
    3. Xiongxiao Xu. Exploring Machine Learning Models with Spatial-Temporal Information for Interconnect Network Traffic Forecasting Time: 3:40 - 3:50 PM
    4. Xin Wang. Heterogeneous Workloads Study towards Large-scale Interconnect Network Simulation Time: 3:50 - 4:00 PM

  • 04:00 AM - 05:00 PM

    PhD Collouquim - Poster Session

  • 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

    Paper Session 3. Cyber-Physical System Simulation

    Session Chair: Zhiling Lan

    1. Jonas Friederich, Wentong Cai, Boon Ping Gan and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar. Equipment-centric Data-driven Reliability Assessment of Complex Manufacturing Systems Time: 8:00 - 8:30 AM
    2. Wen Jun Tan, Moon Gi Seok and Wentong Cai. Automatic Model Generation and Data Assimilation Framework for Cyber-Physical Production Systems Time: 8:30 - 9:00 AM

  • 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

    Break

  • 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    Business meeting

  • 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

    Break

  • 11:20 AM - 12:30 PM

    FCRC Plenary Talk

  • 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

    Lunch

  • 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM

    Tutorial

    Session Chair: Kevin Jin

    Title: Introduction to SeQUeNCe, a Customizable Discrete-Event Simulator of Quantum Networks by Agonne National Lab

    Speaker(s): Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Alex Kolar

  • 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

    Break

  • 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM

    Paper Session 4. Simulation from Theory to Practice

    Session Chair: Georgios Theodoropoulos

    1. Andrea Piccione, Philipp Andelfinger and Alessandro Pellegrini. Hybrid Speculative Synchronisation for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM
    2. Niclas Feldkamp and Steffen Strassburger. From Explainable AI to Explainable Simulation: Using Machine Learning and XAI to understand System Robustness Time: 3:30 - 4:00 PM
    3. Romolo Marotta, Federica Montesano and Francesco Quaglia. Effective Access to the Committed Global State in Speculative Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Multi-core Machines Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM
    4. Georgios Diamatopoulos, Rami Bahsoon, Nikos Tziritas and Georgios Theodoropoulos. SymBChainSim: A Novel Simulation Tool for Dynamic and Adaptive Blockchain Management and its Trilemma Tradeoff Time: 4:30 - 5:00 PM

  • 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM

    Best of TOMACS

    Session Chair: Philipp Andelfinger

    1. Zhenyu Cui. A General Framework to Simulate Diffusions with Discontinuous Coefficients and Local Times Time: 8:00 - 8:30 AM
    2. Maximilian Bremer. Simulating the Impact of Dynamic Rerouting on Metropolitan-Scale Traffic Systems Time: 8:30 - 9:00 AM
    3. Peter Barnes. Virtual Time III - Unification of Conservative and Optimistic Synchronization Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM

  • 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

    Break

  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM

    Short Paper Session

    Session Chair: Hui Lin

    1. Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Kevin A. Brown, Xin Wang, Xiongxiao Xu, Kai Shu, Zhiling Lan, Robert B. Ross and Chris Carothers. Hybrid PDES Simulation of HPC Networks using Zombie Packets Time: 10:10 - 10:25 AM
    2. Xiongxiao Xu, Xin Wang, Elkin Cruz, Christopher D. Carothers, Kevin A. Brown, Robert B. Ross, Zhiling Lan and Kai Shu. Machine Learning for Interconnect Network Traffic Forecasting: Investigation and Exploitation Time: 10:25 - 10:40 AM
    3. Sayeb Mohammad Tadvin, Dong Jin and Hui Lin. HELICSAuto: Automating the Development of Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Grids Time: 10:40 - 10:55 AM
    4. Wanpeng Xu and Hua Wei. Learning to Calibrate Hybrid Hyperparameters: a Study on Traffic Simulation Time: 10:55 - 11:10 AM

  • 11:10 AM - 11:20 AM

    Break

  • 11:20 AM - 12:30 PM

    FCRC Plenary Talk

  • 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

    Lunch