17th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013

Technical Program



Wednesday, October 30

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Registration

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Drinks

Thursday, October 31

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Welcome and Keynote Speaker

Prof. Andreas Tolk
Interoperability, Composability, and their Implications for Distributed Simulation

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Simulations Tools and Applications

HybridSim: A Modeling and Co-simulation Toolchain for Cyber-Physical Systems
Baobing Wang (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); John S. Baras (University of Maryland College Park, USA)
simDSN:A Simulation Platform for the Sensing Coverage Problem in Directional Sensor Networks
Recep Ozturk (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey); Amac M. Guvensan (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey); Gokhan A. Yavuz (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
Service Abstractions With Fault Virtualization for Cloud-based Distributed Application Systems
Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA); Jun Wu (CUNY Graduate School & University Center, USA); Arun Adiththan (City University of New York - CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
Distributed Simulation of Heterogeneous and Real-time Systems
Gilles Lasnier (Instituté Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace & SupAéro and ONERA, France); Janette Cardoso (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France); Pierre Siron (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France); Claire Pagetti (ONERA, France); Patricia Derler (UC Berkeley, USA)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch Break

1:15 AM - 2:10 AM

Discrete Event Simulation I

Logisim to DEVS Translation
Yentl Van Tendeloo (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Hans Vangheluwe (McGill University, Canada)
JavaScript Distributed Agent Based Discrete Event Simulation
Daniel Zehe (TUM CREATE, Singapore); Aydt Heiko (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Michael Lees (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Alois Knoll (Technical University Munich Garching, Germany)

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee Break

2:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Distributed Simulation and Real-Time System

Online Client Assignment in Dynamic Real-Time Distributed Interactive Applications
Seyhan Ucar (Koc University, Turkey); Huseyin Guler (Koc University, Turkey); Oznur Ozkasap (Koc University, Turkey)
Dynamic Voltage Scaling scheduling for real-time applications on power-aware Clusters under power constraints
George Terzopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Helen Karatza (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
ROTHAR: Real-time On-line Traffic Assignment with Load Estimation
Takfarinas Saber (Lero@UCD, Ireland); Anthony Ventresque (University College Dublin, Ireland); John Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Self-Assessment and Reconfiguration Methods for Autonomous Cloud-based Network Systems
Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA)

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Coffee Break

4:40 PM - 6:00 PM

Modelling and Simulation

Developing a Distributed Agent-Based and DES Simulation Using poRTIco and Repast
Athar Nouman (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Anastasia Anagnostou (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Simon Taylor (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
DIVAs 4.0: A Multi-Agent Based Simulation Framework
Mohammad Al-Zinati (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Frederico Araujo (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Dane Kuiper (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Junia Valente (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Rym Z. Wenkstern (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Evidence Traces for Multi-agent Declarative Rule-based Policy Simulation
Ulf Lotzmann (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany); Maria Wimmer (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

7:00 PM

Banquet

Friday, November 1

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Niek Wijngaards
Agents in a federated world

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Coffee Break

10:15 AM - 12:15 PM

HLA and Data Distribution Management

A Parallel Data Distribution Management Algorithm
Gabriele D'Angelo (University of Bologna, Italy); Moreno Marzolla (University of Bologna, Italy); Marco Mandrioli (University of Bologna, Italy)
Building an HLA-based distributed simulation: a metadata approach
Agustín Santos (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain); Katia Leal (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain); Luis Chiroque (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)
Load Prediction in HLA-Based Distributed Simulation Using Holt's Variants
Raed Alkharboush (University of Ottawa & Saudi Aramco, Canada); Robson De Grande (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Autonomous Configuration Scheme in a Distributed Load Balancing System for HLA-based Simulations
Robson De Grande (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch Break

1:15 PM - 2:10 PM

Modeling and Performance

A Data-driven Crowd Simulation Model based on Clustering and Classification
Mingbi Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Stephen John Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Performance Modeling of Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
Moumena Chaqfeh (UAE University, UAE); Abderrahmane Lakas (UAEU, UAE); Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee Break

2:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Modeling and Simulation of Complex Networks I

TERP: A Trusted and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
Marwah Almasri (University of Bridgeport, USA); Khaled M. Elleithy (University of Bridgeport, USA); Anas Bushang (University of Bridgeport, USA); Remah Alshinina (University of Bridgeport, USA)
LS-LEACH: A New Secure and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Muneer Alshowkan (University of Bridgeport, USA); Khaled M. Elleithy (University of Bridgeport, USA); Hussain AlHassan (University of Bridgeport, USA)
Scalable Wireless Video Streaming over Real-Time Publish Subscribe Protocol (RTPS)
Basem Madani (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Mohammed Al-saeedi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Anas A. Al-Roubaiey (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
Self-stabilizing algorithm for Low Weight Connected Dominating Set
Karim Bessaoud (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines & PRiSM, France); Alain Bui (Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France); Laurence Pilard (UVSQ, France)

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Coffee Break

4:40 PM - 6:00 PM

Simulation of Complex Systems

Simulation of Information Propagation over Complex Networks: Performance Studies on Multi-GPU
Jiangming Jin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Stephen John Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Bu Sung Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jianlong Zhong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Bingsheng He (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Development and Evaluation of Distributed Simulation of Embedded Systems using Ptolemy and HLA
Alisson Brito (UFPB, Brazil); Angelo Negreiros (UFPB, Brazil); Christoph Roth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Oliver Sander (KIT, Germany)
A Management and Control Infrastructure for Integrated Simulation Environment
Xiao Xu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Ge Li (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Closing Remarks