schedule
Technical Program
All times are listed in US Mountain Daylight Time zone.
- Monday, 23rd 2025 7 PM informal get together
- The scientific program will take place in room Lamy 21, Reception and Banquett in room Palace A 220
Presentation times
- Full papers: 30 minutes, 20 minutes talk plus Q&A
- Short papers: 20 minutes, 10-15 minutes talk plus Q&A
- PhD Colloquium / Flash talks: 10 minutes, 7 minutes talk plus Q&A (plus Poster next day)
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08:00 AM - 08:45 AM
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08:45 AM - 09:00 AM
Welcome to PADS 2025
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09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote Session
Session Chair: Wentong Cai
Phase transitions in Balinese time, music and irrigation management
Speaker: Vibeke Sørensen, External Professor at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
View Abstract and Bio
Speaker: J.Stephen Lansing, External Professor at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Santa Fe Institute
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session: Applications
Session Chair: Matt Koehler
- Anibal Siguenza-Torres, Santiago Narvaez Rivas, Alexander Wieder, Andrea Piccione, Stefano Bortoli, Wentong Cai, Hans-Joachim Bungartz and Alois Knoll. Autonomic Partition-Aware Malleable Microscopic Traffic Simulation (full)
- Nandakishore Santhi, Stephan Eidenbenz, Brian Key and George Tompkins. Generative Discrete Event Process Simulation for Hidden Markov Models to Predict Competitor Time-to-Market (short)
- Jiao Luo, Yi Ping Yao and Wen Jie Tang. A Transformer-Enhanced Stochastic Bounded Confidence Model for Opinion Dynamics (video flash talk)
- Max Tschaikowski. Agent-based modeling in Economics by Process Algebra (video flash talk)
- Thi Phuong Kieu, Maamar El Amine Hamri and Hassan Haghighi. A New Discrete Event Simulation of Large-Scale Car Traffic at Microscopic Level (video flash talk)
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch Break (lunch provided)
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01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Session: Modeling Methods I
Session Chair: Adelinde Uhrmacher
- Simone Bauco, Romolo Marotta and Alesssandro Pellegrini. DESL: A Literate Programming Language Framework for Interoperable Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (full)
- Jerome Feret. Model reduction of infinite rule-based models (full)
- Simone Bauco, Romolo Marotta and Alesssandro Pellegrini. DESL: A Literate Programming Language Framework for Interoperable Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (full)
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02:00 PM - 02:10 PM
Short Break
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02:10 PM - 03:00 PM
Session: Modeling Methods II
Session Chair: Jerome Feret
- Justin N. Kreikemeyer, Miłosz Jankowski, Pia Wilsdorf and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher. Using (Not so) Large Language Models for Generating Simulation Models in a Formal DSL - A Study on Reaction Networks (full) Read TOMACS Article
- Steffen Zschaler, Pia Wilsdorf, Thomas Godfrey and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher. Towards Dialectic models for documenting and conducting simulation studies: A vision (short)
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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee Break
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03:30 PM - 04:20 PM
Session: Visualization
Session Chair: Drew Hamilton
- Artem Konev, Bernhard Sadransky, Silvana Rauer-Zechmeister, Daniel Cornel, Ingo Schwerdorf, Jürgen Waser and Milena Vuckovic. Interactive geospatial stories for flood management (full) Read TOMACS Article
- Samuele Giussani, Rafael M. Martins, Amilcar Soares, Mauro Caporuscio and Diego Perez. Visualizing Feature Importance of Time Series Data in Discrete-Event Simulations using Shapley Additive Explanations (short)
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04:20 PM - 05:15 PM
Session: PhD colloquium - Flash Talks
Session Chair: Justin Kreikemeyer
- Ryan Kim, Kaishuu Shinozaki-Conefrey and Paul Torrens. Looking for answers: gaze and brain activity as simulation output
- Rene Mai, Katherine Sears, Agung Julius and Sandipan Mishra. Performance measures and sim-to-real gap assessment of human-autonomy teaming in obstacle avoidance
- Anibal Siguenza-Torres. Towards Heterogeneous-Aware Elastic Microscopic Traffic Simulation
- Swapneel Mhatre. Automatic Generation of Simulators for Processors with Accelerators Running in a Virtualized Environment (video flash talk)
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05:15 PM
TOMACS Meeting
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07:00 PM
Reception
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09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Session: Test of Time Awards
Session Chair: Jason Liu
- Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, and Chris Grier. RINSE: the real-time immersive network simulation environment for network security exercises (from PADS 2005)
- Davide Cingolani, Alessandro Pellegrini, and Francesco Quaglia. Transparently Mixing Undo Logs and Software Reversibility for State Recovery in Optimistic PDES (from PADS 2015)
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break / Posters
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session: Privacy and Risk
Session Chair: David Nicol
- Ranjan Pal, Konnie Duan and Rohan Sequeira. A Theory to Estimate, Bound, and Manage Systemic Cyber Risk (full)
- Bo Zhang, Wen Jun Tan, Wentong Cai and Allan Zhang. Privacy Meets Performance: Enhancing Distributed Simulation-based Federated Multi-agent Learning with Privacy-preserving Surrogate Model (full) Read TOMACS Article
- Keith Crabb, Hugh Coleman and Drew Hamilton. Development of a Digital Twin Software for SCADA Focused Anomaly and Intrusion Detection Systems Research (short)
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch Break (lunch provided)
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01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Session: Simulation Algorithms and Methods I
Session Chair: Philipp Andelfinger
- Erik Jensen, James Leathrum, Christopher Lynch, Katherine Smith and Ross Gore. Out of Order and Causally Correct: Ready-Event Discovery through Data-Dependence Analysis (full)
- Byeonggil Jun, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh and Hokeun Kim.
Improving the Efficiency of Coordinating Timed Events in Distributed Systems (full)
- Erik Jensen, James Leathrum, Christopher Lynch, Katherine Smith and Ross Gore. Out of Order and Causally Correct: Ready-Event Discovery through Data-Dependence Analysis (full)
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02:00 PM - 02:10 PM
Short Break
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02:10 PM - 03:00 PM
Session: Simulation Algorithms and Methods II
Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini
- Kevin Brown, Elkin Cruz-Camacho, Kazutomo Yoshii, Xin Wang, Zhiling Lan, Christopher D. Carothers and Robert B. Ross. Directing PDES and Surrogate Models in Loosely Coupled Hybrid Simulations (short)
- Philipp Andelfinger and Wentong Cai. Slight Stochastic Shifts Suffice: Cross-Trajectory Vectorized Estimation of Simulation Gradients (short)
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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee Break / Posters
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03:30 PM - 04:40 PM
Session: Simulation of Computer Networks
Session Chair: Kevin Jin
- Xin Wang, Kevin Brown, Robert Ross, Christopher Carothers and Zhiling Lan. MFNetSim: A Multi-Fidelity Network Simulation Framework for Multi-Traffic Modeling of Dragonfly Systems (full) Read TOMACS Article
- Kevin Brown, Andres Lopez and Jason Liu. Toward a Steady-State Fluid Model of HPC Networks (short)
- Marika Colby and Claudia Szabo. Simulation Framework Architecture for Assessing Dynamic Distributed Network Task Coordination Implementations (short)
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05:00 PM
PADS Business Meeting
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07:00 PM
Banquett
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09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Session: Food for Thoughts
Session Chair: Ernest Page
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Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Peter Frazier, Reiner Hähnle, Franziska Klügl, Fabian Lorig, Bertram Ludäscher, Laura Nenzi, Christina Ruiz-Martin, Bernard Rumpe, Claudia Szabo, Gabriel Wainer, Pia Wilsdorf.
Context, Composition, Automation, and Communication: The C2AC Roadmap for Modeling and Simulation -
Philipp Andelfinger, Alessandro Pellegrini, Christopher D. Carothers, Margaret Loper, Wen Jun Tan, Verena Wolf, Wentong Cai.
Intelligent Modeling and Simulation LifeCycle
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session: Digital Twins
Session Chair: Srikanth Yoginath
- Yash Kurkure, Shambhawi Sharma, Xin Wang, Michael E.Parka and Zhiling Lan. CQSim+: Symbiotic Simulation for Multi-Resource Scheduling in High-Performance Computing (full)
- Waylon Luo, Betis Behari, Travis Humble, Jiapeng Zhao, Tong Zhan, Rejan Maharjan and Qiang Guan. A Digital Twin of Scalable Quantum Clouds (full)
- Adriano Pimpini and Alessandro Pellegrini. RBlockSim: Parallel and Distributed Simulation for Blockchain Benchmarking (full)
- Yash Kurkure, Shambhawi Sharma, Xin Wang, Michael E.Parka and Zhiling Lan. CQSim+: Symbiotic Simulation for Multi-Resource Scheduling in High-Performance Computing (full)
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12:00 PM - 12:10 PM
Conference Closing