Registration

Conference Welcome

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)
2. On the Modelling of Aggregated Behaviour for Simulation: An Event–Based Architecture (full)

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)
2. A Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Short-Term Forecasting of Emergency Department Arrivals and Discharges (full)

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)
2. Mathematical Modeling Framework for Comparison of Vaccination Strategies for Different Diseases (full)

Coffee Break

Session: Cybersecurity & Risk

Session Chairs: David Nicol (University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, USA) and Ranjan Pal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

1. DDoSimu5G: A Simulator to Model D2D Botnet DDoS Traffic Loads on 5G Components (full)
2. Attack Graph driven Discrete Event Simulation for security assessment in Power Systems (full)
3. A Strategic Theory to Share CTI in Digital Supply Chain Networks (short)

Coffee Break

PhD Colloquium

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

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 Peeking for Low-Variance Gradients in Zeroth-Order Discrete Optimization via Simulation (full)
2. Optimizing Interventions for Agent-Based Infectious Disease Simulations (full)

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)
2. Event Detection in Hybrid Simulation (full)

Coffee Break

Session: Simulation Algorithms II

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

1. Grid Checkpointing in Speculative Simulation (full)
2. EBA: an Event-Buffer Allocator Specifically Suited for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (full)

Lunch Break

Session: Automation M&S I

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 Crowd (full)
2. On Integrating Resilience and Human Oversight into LLM-Assisted Modeling Workflows for Digital Twins (full)

Coffee Break

Session: Automation M&S II

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

1. DEVSForge: A Web-based Platform for Assisted DEVS Modeling using Large Language Models (short)

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

Poster Session

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.

Coffee Break

Session: Digital Twins I

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)
2. Accelerating Work-Building Assignments to Generate Digital-Twins of Large Cities (full)

Coffee Break

Session: Digital Twins II

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

1. Automatic Frequency-Based Partitioning for Modular Validation of Stochastic Petri Net Digital Twin Models (full)
2. Detecting and Explaining Transient Anomalies in Agent-based Graph-Structured Event Systems via GNNs and Gaussian Modeling (short)

Conference Closing

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