June 24-26, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA

38th ACM SIGSIM PADS

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Call for Papers

PhD Colloquium

PADS'24 features a PhD Colloquium track for doctoral students.
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Regular and Short Papers

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Keynotes

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Technical Program

All times are listed in US Eastern time zone.

Presentation times

  • Full papers: 30 minutes, including Q&A
  • Short papers: 20 minutes, including Q&A
  • PhD Colloquium abstracts: 10 minutes, including Q&A

  • 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

    Breakfast & Registration

  • 09:00 AM - 10:40 AM

    Plenary and Keynote Session

    Session Chair: Margaret Loper

    Title: Powering Progress in Leadership Computing in the Era of Generative AI and Energy Constraints

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    Speaker: Georgia Tourassi, Ph.D., Associate Laboratory Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

    Coffee Break

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

    Session 1: Predictive Modeling and Simulation

    Session Chair: Adelinde Uhrmacher

    1. Juri Tomak and Sergei Gorlatch. A Toolset for Predicting Performance of Legacy Real-Time Software Based on the RAST Approach (full)
    2. Amit Puri, Kartheek Bellamkonda, Kailash Narreddy, John Jose, Venkatesh Tamarapalli and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan. DRackSim: Simulating CXL-enabled Large-Scale Disaggregated Memory Systems (full)
    3. Xiaoliang Wu, Alexander Kolar, Joaquin Chung, Dong Jin, Martin Suchara, Rajkumar Kettimuthu. Parallel Simulation of Quantum Networks with Distributed Quantum State Management (full)
  • 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

    Lunch Break (lunch provided)

  • 01:30 PM - 02:40 PM

    Session 2: Applications of Advanced Discrete Simulation Methods

    Session Chair: Srikanth Yoginath

    1. João Dantas, Samara Silva, Vitor Gomes, Andre Costa, Adrisson Samersla, Diego Geraldo, Marcos Maximo and Takashi Yoneyama. AsaPy: A Python Library for Aerospace Simulation Analysis (full)
    2. Huey Pretila, Benjamin Campbell and Claudia Szabo. Contested Communication in C2 Multi-agent Simulations (short)
    3. Giuseppe Galano, Sara Giammusso and Matteo Nardelli. Modeling Central Bank Digital Currency over Payment Channels: A Parallel ROSS-based Approach (short)
  • 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM

    Coffee Break

  • 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Session 3: Test of Time Awards

    Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini

    1. Jan Himmelspach and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher. A component-based simulation layer for JAMES (from PADS 2004)
    2. Jereme Lamps, David M. Nicol, and Matthew Caesar. TimeKeeper: a lightweight virtual time system for Linux (from PADS 2014)
  • 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

    PADS Business Meeting

  • 08:00 AM - 08:30 AM

    Breakfast & Registration

  • 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

    Keynote Session

    Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini

    Title: Data-driven Simulation Optimization in the Age of Digital Twins

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    Speaker: Enlu Zhou, Ph.D., Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

    Coffee Break

  • 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM

    Session 4: Time Warp

    Session Chair: Nael Abu Gazaleh

    1. John Bachan, Jianlan Ye, Xuan Jiang, Tan Nguyen, Mahesh Natarajan, Maximilian Bremer and Cy Chan. Devastator: A Scalable Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Modern C++ (full)
    2. Romolo Marotta, Alessandro Pellegrini and Philipp Andelfinger. Follow the Leader: Alternating CPU/GPU Computations in PDES (short)
    3. Andrea Piccione and Alessandro Pellegrini. Efficient Non-Blocking Event Management for Speculative Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (short)
  • 11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

    Session 5: Phd Colloquium 1

    Session Chair: Gong Chen

    1. Gayane Grigoryan. Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Simulation Models
    2. Joao Dantas, Marcos Maximo and Takashi Yoneyama. Loyal Wingman Assessment: Social Navigation for Human-Autonomous Collaboration in Simulated Air Combat
    3. Federica Montesano. Towards the Optimization of Memory and Data Management in Speculative PDES on Multi-Core Machines
    4. Matthew Dearing. Deep Learning Surrogate Models for Network Simulation
    5. Zheng Hu, Luke Waind, Yanfeng Qu and Dong Jin. Synchronized Power Simulation and Programmable Network Emulation Testbed for SCADA System Security Evaluation
    6. Premkumar Lekshmi. Towards A GUI-Based Automated Model Generation Framework
  • 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

    Lunch Break (lunch provided)

  • 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM

    Session 6: Phd Colloquium 2

    Session Chair: Gong Chen

    1. Elkin Cruz-Camacho and Christopher D. Carothers. Accurate HPC Network Simulations Using Application-Level Approximation
    2. Georgios Diamatopoulos, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Nikos Tziritas and Rami Bahsoon. Towards LLM Augmented Discrete Event Simulation of Blockchain Systems
    3. Luke Waind, Gong Chen, Zheng Hu and Kevin Jin. Comparative Analysis and Evaluation of P4-Based Network Emulation Testing Environments
    4. Christian Roberto Vergara, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Rami Bahsoon, Wendy Yanez and Nikos Tziritas. Federated Digital Twins as an Enabling Technology for Collaborative Decision-Making
    5. Tushar Lone. Development of an open-source library for supply chain modeling and optimization
    6. Xuan Jiang. Designing a Time-Driven Simulation Framework for Large-Scale Traffic Networks
  • 02:20 PM - 02:50 PM

    Coffee Break

  • 02:50 PM - 04:00 PM

    Session 7: Learning Approaches in Simulation

    Session Chair: Margaret Loper

    1. Simranjeet Singh Dahia and Claudia Szabo. Detecting Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems: A Machine Learning Approach (full)
    2. Justin N. Kreikemeyer, Philipp Andelfinger and Adelinde Uhrmacher. Towards Learning Stochastic Population Models by Gradient Descent (short)
    3. Xiongxiao Xu, Kevin A. Brown, Tanwi Mallick, Xin Wang, Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Robert B. Ross, Christopher D. Carothers, Zhiling Lan and Kai Shu. Surrogate Modeling for HPC Application Iteration Times Forecasting with Network Features (short)
  • 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

    Poster Session

  • 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

    Social Dinner

  • 08:00 AM - 8:30 AM

    Breakfast

  • 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

    Session 8: Traffic Simulation

    Session Chair: Kevin Jin

    1. Nagacharan Teja Tangirala, Christoph Sommer and Alois Knoll. Simulating Data Flows of Very Large Scale Intelligent Transportation Systems (full)
    2. Ahmed Abdo, Guoyuan Wu and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. VEhicular Secure Network Open Simulator (VESNOS): A Cyber-security oriented co-simulation platform for connected and automated driving (full)
    3. Ryan Kim and Paul Torrens. Building Verisimilitude in VR With High-Fidelity Local Action Models: A Demonstration Supporting Road-Crossing Experiments (full)
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

    Coffee Break

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Session 9: Advanced Techniques for Efficient System Evaluation

    Session Chair: Philipp Andelfinger

    1. Zhuoxiao Meng, Mingyue Gao, Margherita Grossi, Anibal Siguenza-Torres, Stefano Bortoli, Christoph Sommer and Alois Knoll. Adaptive Synchronization and Pacing Control for Visual Interactive Simulation (full)
    2. Srikanth Yoginath, Pratishtha Shukla, Sudip Seal and James Nutaro. SpecSims: A Scalable Speculative Tree-based Simulation Cloning Framework For Finite Memory Machines (full)
    3. Anibal Siguenza-Torres, Alexander Wieder, Zhuoxiao Meng, Santiago Narvaez Rivas, Xiaorui Du, Margherita Grossi, Mingyue Gao, Stefano Bortoli, Wentong Cai and Alois Knoll. ENHANCE: Multilevel Heterogeneous Performance-Aware Re-Partitioning Algorithm For Microscopic Vehicle Traffic Simulation (full)
  • 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM

    Conference Closing