Technical Program

Wednesday, September 17

8:45 - 9:00

Welcome Session: GC & TPC Chairs

9:00 - 10:30

Session 1: Simulation and Modeling Approaches

Chair: Stefano Ferretti
Model-Driven Parallel and Distributed Stochastic Simulation of Chemical Reaction Networks
Simone Bauco (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy); Federica Montesano (IASI-CNR, Italy); Adriano Pimpini (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Romolo Marotta (Tor Vergata, University of Rome, Italy); Alessandro Pellegrini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Self-Adaptive Simulation Models: A Case Study in Cell Biology
Pia Wilsdorf, Philipp Henning, Justin Noah Kreikemeyer and Marcel Kliefoth (University of Rostock, Germany); Simone Baltrusch (University Medicine Rostock); Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany)
Formal Fragmentation of RAMSAS for Modular and Distributed Reliability Analysis via Simulation
Alfredo Garro and Alessandro Sorrenti (University of Calabria, Italy)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

Special Session: Using Uppaal and Actors for Property Checking of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms in Anonymous Memory

Chair: Azzedine Boukerche
Prof. Libero Nigro
Using Uppaal and Actors for Property Checking of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms in Anonymous Memory
Libero Nigro (University of Calabria, DIMES, Italy); Franco Cicirelli (CNR - National Research Council, Italy)

11:30 - 12:30

Session 2: Visualization, Tools, and Interfaces

Chair: Miroslav Voznak
LEOVISTA: A Cesium-Based 3D Visualization Tool for Satellite-Enabled Vehicle Simulations
Darinela Andronovici (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Giuseppe Avino (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg); Mario Franke (TU Dresden, Germany); Damien Nicolas and Ion Turcanu (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg); Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden, Germany)
LiveOppServation - An Open-Source Interactive Evaluation and Simulation Frontend for OMNeT++
Jannusch Bigge and Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden, Germany)
Towards Anonymous Crowdsensing: A Smart Contract-Mediated Privacy Framework
Giuseppe Cacciapuoti, Chiara Anna Cartarasa and Delia Cavalca (University of Bologna, Italy); Luca Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Stefano Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00

Session 3: Digital Twins and Automated Platforms

Chair: Alfredo Garro
NotLine: a Non-Intrusive Automated Platform to Build a Digital Twin
Fabrizio Baiardi (Università di Pisa, Italy); Vincenzo Sammartino (Università di Pisa & UNIPI, Italy); Salvatore Ruggieri (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Ontology-driven Simulations for Quantified Service Discovery in Manufacturing Ecosystems
Milan Vathoopan and Jalil Boudjadar (Aarhus University, Denmark); Michael Hertwig (Fraunhofer-institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Germany); Joachim Lentes (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Germany)
The Interactive Retroduction Cycle: Amplifying Cognitive Focus in Complex Simulations
Anne Vetter (Games Engineering, University of Würzburg, Germany); Sebastian von Mammen (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30

Short/Poster Paper Session

Chair: Romolo Marotta
Towards a Generic Middleware-Based Interface for Mobile Communication Simulation
Touhid Hossain Pritom (TU Dresden, Germany); Burkhard Hensel (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden, Germany)
A Framework for Proactive Cyber-Resilience: Non-Intrusive Modeling for Autonomous Defense
Vincenzo Sammartino (Università di Pisa & UNIPI, Italy)
ECO-FAST: An Energy Cognizant Fault-tolerant Scheduler for Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Sanjay Moulik (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India); Richa Sarma (Assam Skill University, India)
AID: Assistant-based Approach for k-Leader Network Formation in Multi-Robot Systems
Hamza Abuzahra (Koç University, Turkey); Deniz Ozsoyeller (Yaşar Üniversitesi, Turkey); Oznur Ozkasap (Koc University, Turkey)
TPS: Trust-Aware Pruning for Byzantine Robustness Federated Learning in Real-Time Edge Systems
Zhengliang Guo and Linxiao Gong (FuDan University, China); Jing Liu (Fudan University, China); Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Liang Song (Fudan University, China)
Hybrid Approaches to Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
Xin Jiang and Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China)
A V2X Secrecy Forwarding Protocol for Intelligent Transport Systems
Thiago A Bewiahn (Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany); Antônio Augusto Fröhlich (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Thursday, September 18

9:00 - 10:30

Session 4: Parallel and Distributed Simulation

Chair: Fernando Barros
Comparing the Run-time Behavior of Modern PDES Engines on PowerPC and x86 Architectures
Romolo Marotta (Tor Vergata, University of Rome, Italy); Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Longer (Not Longest) Processing-Time First in Constant Global Lookahead PDES Engines
Romolo Marotta and Dissan Ahmed (Tor Vergata, University of Rome, Italy); Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Performance evaluation of a self-clustering heuristic for adaptive PADS
Gabriele D'Angelo, Stefano Ferretti and Moreno Marzolla (University of Bologna, Italy)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Keynote Session

Chair: Miroslav Voznak
Prof. Dr. Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Title: The Twinning Paradigm details here

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00

Session 5: Environmental and Disaster Simulations

Chair: Christoph Sommer
Forest Fire Modeling using Cellular Automata and Dynamic Agents: A piHyFlow Approach
Fernando Barros (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
An Energy-Aware Environmental Monitoring for Smart Cities using Public Transportation Vehicles
Dario O. Delgado, Luis Miguel Samaniego Campoverde, Mauro Tropea and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)
Analyzing the Environmental Footprint in VANETs through SUMO Simulator
Luis Miguel Samaniego Campoverde, Mauro Tropea, Alfredo Garro and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

Thursday, September 18 15:30 - 17:00

Session 6: Traffic and Transportation Simulations

Chair: Yang Liu
Towards a Fast Parallel Implementation of a Traffic Assignment Algorithm
Petr Pernicka and Tomas Potuzak (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic); Frantisek Kolovsky (RoadTwin s.r.o., Czech Republic)
Ridesharing Simulation to Explore Matching Algorithms
Kazuyuki Shudo, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Yuito Ueda (Kyoto University, Japan); Hiroshige Umino, Masahiro Sano and Keisuke Sogawa (newmo, Inc., Japan)
Comparison of Road Traffic Division Methods for Distributed or Parallel Road Traffic Simulation
Tomas Potuzak (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)

19:00 - 22:00

Banquer Dinner

Friday, September 19

9:00 - 10:00

Session 7: Autonomous Driving and Smart Systems

Chair: Tomas Potuzak
Adversarial Collaborative Perception in Autonomous Driving
Jafarbek Ulmasov and Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
SVR-YOLO11: Real-Time Animal Detection for Situational Awareness in SAR Operations
Zhongyi He (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao); Yang Liu and Hao Yang (Fudan University, China); Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Boan Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

10:00 - 10:15

Coffee Break

Friday, September 19 10:15 - 11:15

Session 8: Advanced Techniques in Learning and Prediction

Chair: Stefano Ferretti
A Novel Deep Learning-enabled Typhoon Trajectory Prediction Method
Yiwei Liang, Zhiyuan Qi and Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China)
Efficient Deep Learning Architectures for Real-Time Modulation Classification in Low-SNR Cognitive Radio Networks
Daniel Naicker (University of Pretoria, South Africa & Sentech, South Africa); Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Liang Song (Fudan University, China); Filip Palunčić (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

11:15 - 11:30

Closing Remarks