Registration

Conference Welcome

Gerti Kappel, Dean of TU Wien Informatics
Nikolas Popper, General Chair, TU Wien, Austria
Nikolas will also give a brief introduction to the social programme and practical information.
Adelinde Uhrmacher, Program Chair, University of Rostock, Germany
Srikanth Yoginath, Program Chair, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Keynote Session

Session Chair: Nikolas Popper (TU Wien, Austria)

“The future of infectious disease modelling and the Lancet Commission on Strengthening the Use of Epidemiological Modelling of Emerging and Pandemic Infectious Diseases”

Speaker: Mark Jit, Professor at New York University
Abstract & Bio

Coffee Break

Session: Modeling Methodology I

Session Chairs: Martin Bicher (TU Wien, Austria) and Joachim Denil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

1. Bernstein Polynomial Blends for Smooth Rule-Based Flocking (full) by Jeyaprakash Chelladurai, Haklin Kimm
2. On the Modelling of Aggregated Behaviour for Simulation: An Event–Based Architecture (full) by Adam Banham, Claudia Szabo, Ryan Beruldsen

Coffee Break

Session: Modeling Methodology II

Session Chairs: Martin Bicher (TU Wien, Austria) and Joachim Denil (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

1. Modeling and Simulation of Internal Migration using Machine Learning Regression and the Gravity Model of Migration (full) by Alexander Jell, Daniele Giannandrea, Niki Popper, Martin Bicher
2. A Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Short-Term Forecasting of Emergency Department Arrivals and Discharges (full) by Nirmani Amarasinghe, Adele H. Marshall, Laura Boyle

Lunch Break

Session: Computational Social Sciences & Epidemiology

Session Chairs: Tyll Krüger (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) and Kai Nagel (TU Berlin, Germany)

1. A Framework for Efficient Individual-Level Longitudinal Outcomes Estimation for Agent-Based Simulations (full) by Soham Das, Varun Ramamohan, Parmeet Singh Chani, Ajeet Joshi
2. Mathematical Modeling Framework for Comparison of Vaccination Strategies for Different Diseases (full) by Martin Bicher, Claire Rippinger, Christoph Urach, Günther Zauner, Melanie Zechmeister, Niki Popper

Coffee Break

Session: Cybersecurity & Risk

Session Chairs: David Nicol (University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, USA), Ranjan Pal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Cynthia Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), and Karim Khalil (Lund University, Sweden)

1. DDoSimu5G: A Simulator to Model D2D Botnet DDoS Traffic Loads on 5G Components (full) by Karim Khalil, Christian Gehrmann, Sara Ramezanian, Jakob Sternby
2. Attack Graph driven Discrete Event Simulation for security assessment in Power Systems (full) by Davide Savarro, Davide Cerotti, Daniele Codetta Raiteri, Lavinia Egidi, Giuliana Franceschinis, Luigi Portinale, Giovanna Dondossola, Roberta Terruggia
3. A Strategic Lens for Sharing Threat Intelligence in Networks (short) by Ranjan Pal, Konnie Duan, Peihan Liu

Coffee Break

PhD Colloquium

Session Chairs: Steffen Straßburger (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany) and Justin Kreikemeyer (University of Rostock, Germany)

4:00 PM – Flash Talks

Each talk: 7 min presentation + 3 min Q&A

1. Simulating Disruptions in Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems with time-varying Resources by Dominik Brunmeir
2. Hiding Service Latency: A Deterministic Asynchronous Execution Paradigm for Agent-Based Transport Simulations by Paul Heinrich, Kai Nagel
3. HPC Congestion Analysis via Programmable Data-Plane Network Emulation by Xiaoyu Guo, Kevin A. Brown, Luke Waind, Dong Jin
4. Challenges in calibrating simulation models with stylized facts by Jan Niklas Martin, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher
5. Towards Benchmarking Methods for Learning Chemical Reaction Networks from Time Series Data by Glenn Skrzypczak, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

4:50 PM – Poster Session

Break

Joint Welcome & Film Evening with DigHum 2026 at Gartenbaukino

6:30 PM – Welcome Drinks
7:00 PM – Screening of “Ghost in the Machine” with director Valerie Veatch
Walking time from TU Wien to the cinema is approx. 20 minutes.

Registration

Session: Simulation-based Optimization

Session Chairs: Philipp Andelfinger (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Wei Xie (Northeastern University, USA)

1. Dimensional Peaking for Low-Variance Gradients in Zeroth-Order Discrete Optimization via Simulation (full) by Philipp Andelfinger, Wentong Cai
2. Optimizing Interventions for Agent-Based Infectious Disease Simulations (full) by Anja Wolpers, Johannes Ponge, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Coffee Break

Session: Simulation Algorithms I

Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

1. Continuous Fluid Modeling of Credit-Based Flow Control for HPC Interconnection Networks (full) by Andres Lopez, Jason Liu, Kevin Brown
2. Event Detection in Hybrid Simulation (full) by Priom Biswas, Thomas Kuhn, Dishant Mahajan, Philipp Zech, Seyed Pedram Mirelmi

Coffee Break

Session: Simulation Algorithms II

Session Chair: Alessandro Pellegrini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

1. Grid Checkpointing in Speculative Simulation (full) by Andrea Mazzucchi, Francesco Quaglia
2. EBA: an Event-Buffer Allocator Specifically Suited for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (full) by Francesco Quaglia

Lunch Break

Session: Automation M&S

Session Chair: Natasa Miskov-Zivanov (University of Pittsburgh, USA) and Pia Wilsdorf (University of Rostock, Germany)

1. Sense, Think, Act, Reflect: Distilling Fast and Interpretable Decision Functions from LLM-Driven Crowds (full) by Yichi Zhang, Philipp Andelfinger, Wen Jun Tan, Wentong Cai
2. On Integrating Resilience and Human Oversight into LLM-Assisted Modeling Workflows for Digital Twins (full) by P Lekshmi, Neha Karanjkar

Coffee Break

Keynote Session

Session Chair: Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany)

“Monitoring Spatially Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems”

Speaker: Ezio Bartocci, Full Professor at TU Wien
Abstract & Bio

Coffee Break

PhD Colloquium (continued)

3:15 PM – Flash Talk

Each talk: 7 min presentation + 3 min Q&A

1. An Iterative Calibration and Validation Methodology for Large-Scale Traffic Simulations in SUMO by Juan Alberto Gallardo Gómez, Fernando Diaz-del-Rio, María José Morón Fernández, José-Luis Guisado-Lizar

3:25 PM – Poster Session

Break

Tram Sightseeing Drive to Banquet

The tram departs at 6:30 PM, the stop is a 10‑minute walk from the conference venue.

Banquet

Heuriger “Zum Herrgott aus Sta”

Test of Time Session

Session Chair: Srikanth Yoginath (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Awards and retrospectives on influential PADS papers from past decades.

Featured Test-of-Time Paper
“Automatic Generation of Reversible C++ Code and Its Performance in a Scalable Kinetic Monte-Carlo Application”
by Markus Schordan, Tomas Oppelstrup, David Jefferson, Daniel Quinlan, and Peter D. Barnes, Jr.
Presented at PADS 2016.

Coffee Break

Session: Digital Twins

Session Chairs: Dong (Kevin) Jin (University of Arkansas, USA) and Wes Brewer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

1. Data-Plane Programmable Network Emulation Testbed with Dynamic Hardware Offloading (full) by Luke Waind, Dong Jin
2. Accelerating Work-Building Assignments to Generate Digital-Twins of Large Cities (full) by Bricen Reynold, Dhananjai Rao
3. Automatic Frequency-Based Partitioning for Modular Validation of Stochastic Petri Net Digital Twin Models (full) by Ashkan Zare, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

Coffee Break

Conference Closing

Wrap‑up, farewell remarks and outlook at SIGSIM PADS 2027.