16th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2012

Technical Program

Thursday, 25th October 2012     
08:00 - 08:45      Registration
 
08:45 - 09:00      Welcome
Georgios Theodoropoulous, Vinny Cahill and Azzedine Boukerche

09:00 - 10:00      Session 1   Keynote:
Highly Realistic Simulation Models of Complex Systems Towards Star Trek's Holodeck

Alexander Verbraeck   (bio)
Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands
10:00 - 10:30      Coffee Break
 
10:30 - 12:00      Session 2   Large Scale and Agent-based Simulation
    Session Chair: Mark Purcell

10:30 - 11:00 JPALS Visualization Tool
Scott Nykl, Chad Mourning, Erik Nykl, David Chelberg, Trent Skidmore
11:00-11:30 QoS-aware revenue-cost optimization for latency-sensitive services
in IaaS clouds
Ta Nguyen Binh Duong, Xiaorong Li, Rick Siow Mong Goh,
Xueyan Tang, Wentong Cai

11:30-12:00 3D Road Environment Modeling Applied to Visibility Mapping: an Experimental Comparison
Jean-Philippe Tarell, Pierre Charbonnier , François Goulette, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud
 
12:00 - 13:00      Lunch
 
13:00 - 14:30      Session 3    Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Sensor and Mobile Networks
    Session Chair: Mohamed Eid

13:00 - 13:30 S-TDMA: A new MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Samra Boulfekhar, Louiza Bouallouche, Mohamed Benmohammed
13:30 - 14:00 Real-time sensor signal capture from a harsh environment
Mark Purcell, Aravind Vasudevan, David Gregg
14:00 - 14:30 Hybrid CPU-GPU Distributed Framework for Large Scale Mobile Networks
Ben Romdhanne Bilel, Nikaein Navid, Mohamed Said Mosli Bouksiaa
 
14:30 - 15:00      Coffee Break
 
15:00 - 16:30      Session 4  Interest Management and Group Communication
    Session Chair: Graciela Román-Alonso

15:00 - 15:30 Development of a Schedulability Analysis Framework based on pTPN and UPPAAL with Stopwatches
Franco Cicirelli, Angelo Furfaro, Libero Nigro, Francesco Pupo
15:30 - 16:00 Distributed Infrastructure for Multiscale Computing
Stefan J Zasada, Mariusz Mamonski, Derek Groen, Joris Borgdorff, Ilya Saverchenko, Tomasz Piontek, Krzysztof Kurowski, Eter V. Coveney
16:00 - 16:30 Towards Robust Routing in HD Tree
Rui Liu, Azzedine Boukerche, Yunfeng Gu
17:00 - 19:00      Tour
 
Friday, 26th October 2012     
08:00 - 09:00      Session 5   Keynote:

Distributed Wireless Computation
D K Arvind   (bio)    
School of Informatics,

University of Edinburgh


09:00 - 10:30      Session 6   Distributed Simulation
    Session Chair: Ta Nguyen Binh Duong 

09:00 - 09:30 Parallel Simulation Models for the Evaluation of Future Large-Scale Datacenter Networks
Diego Lugones, Kostas Katrinis, Martin Collier, Georgios Theodoropoulos
09:30 - 10:00 Pore Networks Simulation with Parallel Greedy Algorithms
G. Román-Alonso, J. Matadamas-Hernández, A. Boukerche, M. A. Castro-García
10:00 - 10:30 Problem decomposition for evacuation simulation using network flow
Seán Óg Murphy, Kenneth N. Brown, Cormac Sreenan
 
10-30 - 11:00      Session 7   Keynote:

TBA
Lisa Amini   (bio)    
IBM Research
,

Ireland

 
11:00 - 11:30      Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 12:50      Session 8   Posters and Demos
    Session Chair: Robson De Grande

11:30 - 11:40 A DLNA-Based Efficient Mechanism for Interconnecting Mobile Devices in Ubiquitous Environments
Hyung-Jun Yim, Kyu-Chul Lee
11:40 - 11:50 Supporting multiple virtual world on a single 3D viewer
Antti Karhu, Jukka H. Vatjus-Anttila, Seamus Hickey, Jarkko M. Vatjus-Anttila
11:50 - 12:00 A 802.11 MAC protocol adaptation for Quantum communications
Constancio Miguel Arizmendi, Juan Pablo Barrangú, Omar Gustavo Zabaleta
12:00- 12:10 Using Fuzzy Logic for Data Aggregation in Vehicular Networks
Irina Tal, Gabriel-Miro Muntean
12:10 - 12:20 An Adaptive Rate-Based Method for Maintaining Consistency in Networked Multiplayer Computer Games
Séamus C. McLoone, Tomás E. Ward, Damian Wynne and Aaron B. McCoy
12:20 - 12:40 Dijkstra Algorithm Based Reliability Model
Octavio Jose Salcedo Parra, Gustavo Lopez, Lilia Castellanos
 
12:50 - 14:00      Lunch
 
14:00 - 16:00      Session 9   Gaming
    Session Chair: Alexander Verbraeck 

14:00 - 14:30 An Enhanced Dead Reckoning Model for Physics-aware Multiplayer Computer Games
Séamus C. McLoone, Patrick J. Walsh, Tomas E Ward
14:30 - 15:00 Admux Communication Protrocol For Real-time Multimodal Intreraction
Mohamad Eid, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
15:00 - 15:30 MWGrid: A System for Distributed Agent-based Simulation in the Digital Humanities
Bart Craenen, Philip Murgatroyd, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Vincent Gaffney, Vinoth Suryanarayanan
15:30 - 16:00 From Behavior Modeling to Communication, 3D Presentation and Interaction: an M&S life cycle for serious games for training
Rafaela V. Rocha, Marcio R. Campos, Azzedine Boukerche, Regina B. Araujo
 
16:00-16:30      Coffee Break
 
16:30 - 18:00      Session 10   Optimization
    Session Chair: Ray Walshe 

16:30 - 17:00 Migration Delay Awareness in a Self-Adaptive Balancing Scheme for HLA-based Simulations
Robson Eduardo De Grande, Azzedine Boukerche
17:00 - 17:30 Execution Time Optimization Using Delayed Multidimensional Retiming
Mohamed Akil, Mohamed Hedi Bedoui
17:30 - 18:00 Maximizing performance and energy efficiency of a real-time heterogeneous 2-level grid system using DVS
George Terzopoulos, Helen D. Karatza
 
19:30      Banquet
 
Saturday, 27th October 2012     
8:30 - 10:30      Session 10   Road Simulation
    Session Chair: Helen Karatza

8:30 - 9:00 Distributed-Parallel Road Traffic Simulator for Clusters of Multi-core Computers
Tomas Potuzak
9:00 - 9:30 SParTSim: A Space Partitioning Guided by Road Network for Distributed Traffic Simulations
Anthony Ventresque, Quentin Bragard, Elvis S. Liu, Dawid Nowak, Liam Murphy, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Jacky Qi Liu
9:30 - 10:00 An Offline Road Network Partitioning Solution in Distributed Transportation Simulation
Yan Xu, Gary Tan
10:00 - 10:30 Highly Scalable X10-based Agent Simulation Platform and its Application to Large-Scale Traffic Simulation
Toyotaro Suzumura, Hiroki Kanezashi
 
10:30 - 11:00      Coffee Break
 
11:00 - 13:00      Session 11   Modelling and Simulation on MultiCore Systems
    Session Chair: Anthony Ventresque

11:00 - 11:30 CUDA-enabled Optimisation of Technical Analysis Parameters
John O'Rourke, John Burns
11:30 - 12:00 Artificial Neural Network Simulation on CUDA
John Pendlebury, Huanhuan Xiong, Ray Walshe
12:00 - 12:30 High-Performance Computing for Data Analytics
Dimitri Perrin, Marija Bezbradica, Martin Crane, Heather J. Ruskin, Christophe Duhamel
12:30 - 13:00 Real-Time Distributed Aircraft Simulation through HLA
Clément Gervais, David Saussié, Jean-Baptiste-Chaudron, Pierre Siron, Régine Leconte
 
13:00      Close of the IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2012 Symposium