Call for Papers

SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices.

The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are not limited to:

• Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event, Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation interoperability techniques, etc.
• Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc.

The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks, computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to:

• Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.)
• Mobility models
• Overlay networks
• Network traffic modeling and generation
• Topology generation
• Quality of service
• Networked applications and new networking paradigms
• Energy-efficient computing
• Distributed systems
• Operating systems
• Interconnection networks
• Fault tolerant systems
• Embedded and real time systems
• Logistics
• Security and emergency response
• Health care
• Transportation
• Manufacturing
• Education and training
• Environmental and biological systems
• Social networks
• Public systems

Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through easychair (http://www.easychair.org). Regular papers (7 to 10 pages) will be eligible for awards and journal extension. The conference will include a "work in progress" session, which will accommodate short papers (4 to 6 pages) presenting ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference.

Sponsorship

The event is organized by ICST in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Groups on computer/communication system performance (SIGMETRICS) and Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library and EU-DL. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International.

Awards

A Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event.

Call for Workshop Proposals

We invite proposals for one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop proposals should be sent to , by September 2, 2008.

Call for Poster Session

Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to . Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 8, 2008.

Distinguished Speaker

More About David...	Can we Computerize an Elephant?
	Pr. David Harel - The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The William Sussman Professorial Chair.
	Abstract: The talk shows the way techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. We will discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort all that is known about it. The ultimate dream is to produce an interactive, dynamic, computerized model of an entire multi-cellular organism.

Keynote Speakers

Melding Power Devices, Electrical Simulation, and Computer Simulation (A Testbed for Power System Security Evaluation)
More About David...	David Nicol - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory
	Abstract: Security of critical infrastructures is a pressing issue for our society. Systems such as the electrical power grid are controlled by computer/communication networks, and have the potential that an intruder remotely gain access to the network and adversely affect control of the infrastructure. Interest is high in technology that helps protect such networks from penetration. Interest is also high, therefore, in means of assessing how effective protective technologies are. This talk describes a testbed that combines a mature simulation of electrical power generation/transmission, a powerful computer/communication network simulator, and actual hardware and software used in the power grid. Using the testbed we can demonstrate vulnerabilities in the power grid, as well as study the effectiveness of real and modelled security technologies in large-scale networks that control critical infrastructure.

Supports for Transparent Optimistic Synchronization in the High-Level-Architecture Interoperability Standard
More About Francesco...	Francesco Quaglia - Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy. Associate Professor, School of Engineering
	Abstract: It is recognized that speculative (optimistic) execution is an effective technique for high performance simulation systems. On the other hand, building simulation platforms/applications comprising speculation is a non-trivial task, due to the need for including supports for undo (rollback) operations inside the software architecture. In this talk, we report our experience in the field of optimistic synchronization in the context of the High-Level-Architecture (HLA) interoperability standard (:cell PQA(PSS(IEEE 1516):). Our efforts have focused on the definition of a framework for the systematic treatment of speculation so as to allow complete transparency to application level programmers. Two significant outcomes of this work were: (i) A simplification of the HLA programming model, where the application level programmer is no longer in charge of interoperability services specifically oriented to speculation. (ii) The possibility to select at start-up time, or even at run-time, the most suitable synchronization scheme depending on features of the specific computing platform; importantly, this is done independently of the nature (speculative or not) of the application level software.

Important Dates

Submission deadline	: October 19th, 2008 November 2, 2008 (extended)
Notification of acceptance	: January 2nd, 2009 January 10th, 2009
Camera-ready deadline	: January 11th, 2009 January 20th, 2009
Conference in Rome	: March 3-5, 2009

Technical Programme Chairs

Title	Name	Affiliation
Programme Chairs	Giovanni Stea	University of Pisa, Italy
Luiz Felipe Perrone	Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

Technical Programme Committee Members

Name	Affiliation
Andrea Bacioccola	Nokia, Helsinki - Finland.
Valmir Carneiro Barbosa	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fernando Barros	University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Razvan Beuran	NICT/JAIST, Japan.
Luciano Bononi	University of Bologna, Italy.
Jean-Pierre Briot	LIP6, Paris, France.
Tracy Camp	Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Jiannong Cao	Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Franck Cappello	INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France.
Carlos Christoffersen	Lakehead University, Canada.
Gianfranco Ciardo	University of California at Riverside, USA.
Andrea D'Ambrogio	University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy.
Lorenzo Donatiello	University of Bologna. Italy.
Bernard Espinasse	LSIS, Marseille, France.
Richard Fujimoto	Georgia Tech Institute, USA.
Norbert Giambiasi	LSIS, Marseille, France.
Tom Henderson	Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA.
Dohy Hong	N2NSoft, France.
Polly Huang	National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Tania Jimenez	University of Avignon, France.
Helen Karatza	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ernesto Kofman	Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
Pierre L'Ecuyer	University of Montreal, Canada.
Zhen Liu	Nokia Research.
Michael Liljenstam	Ericsson, Sweden.
Chung-Horng Lung	Carleton University, Canada.
Benjamin Melamed	Rutger Business School, USA.
Enzo Mingozzi	University of Pisa, Italy.
Sándor Molnár	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
Pieter Mosterman	Mathworks, USA.
Krzysztof Pawlikowski	University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Ramon Puigjaner	Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain.
Francesco Quaglia	Univesity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.
Martin Quinson	University Henry Poincaré & Loria, Nancy, France.
George Riley	Georgia Tech Institute, USA.
Herb Schwetman	Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA.
Robert Szabo	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
Georgios Theodoropoulos	University of Birmingham, UK.
Dietmar Tutsch	Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Adelinde Uhrmacher	University of Rostock, Germany.
Stefan Valentin	University of Paderborn, Germany.
Jean-Marc Vincent	ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France.
You-Chiun Wang	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Bernard Zeigler	Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA.

Steering Committee

Title	Name	Affiliation
Chair	Imrich Chlamtac	Create-net, Italy
co-Chair	John Heath	University of So Maine, USA

Organizing Committee

Title	Name	Affiliation
General Chairs	Olivier Dalle	University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
	Gabriel Wainer	Carleton University, Canada
Programme Chairs	Giovanni Stea	University of Pisa, Italy
Luiz Felipe Perrone	Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
Local Chair	Andrea D'Ambrogio	University Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Publicity Chairs	Claudio Cicconetti	University of Pisa, Italy
Polly Huang	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Rodrigo Castro	Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
Publication Chair	Frederic Mallet	University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France
Organizing Chair	Gergely Nagy	ICST, Italy
Financial Chair	Agnes Laktos	ICST, Italy
Web Chair	Juan-Carlos Maureira	INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

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