Call for Participation

SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. 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 program also includes broader theoretical and practical research contributions.

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. The final conference program (soon to be published) will combine 3 outstanding plenary talks (one each day, see speakers below) with 2 parallel tracks of high quality, peer reviewed, papers presentations (about 50 papers). The Conference will also offer to its participants many opportunities for establishing new contacts and start lively and passionate discussions: a Poster session combined with a friendly social event, a "hot topic" panel discussion, and last but not least, its usual lot of coffee breaks, lunch breaks and, of course, the traditional Conference banquet.

In conjunction with the main Conference, to be held on March 3-5 2009, 4 high quality one-day workshops will be held on march 2 and 6:

• WNS3, The Workshop on ns-3 (March 2)
• Omnet++ 2009, the 2nd International Workshop on OMNeT++ (March 6)
• QoSim 2009, the 2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (March 6)
• SCENES 2009, the Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (March 6)

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.

Accepted Papers & Posters

TBA

Panel Discussion

TBA

Registration

Registration is required in order to attend or participate to the conference:
https://www.icst.org/registration/reg_simutools_2009_eur.php

Notice early-bird registration fees will be applied until February 2nd, 2009.

Each paid registration comes with a Conference bag, Conference Proceedings on CDROM and gives unlimited access to all the technical sessions. The registration also includes lunch and coffee breaks and the participation to the banquet for one person.

Location

The conference will be held in the Starhotels Metropole Hotel****, in Rome, ideally located next to the main train station and within walking distance of most of the great Rome Antique sites.