DS-RT 2006 Technical Program

Monday, October 2, 2006

8:45 am - 9:00 am

WELCOME

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Session 1 (Keynote Speaker): Prof. Steve Benford

The Distinctive Challenges of Pervasive Games as Distributed Real-Time Applications

10:00 am - 10:50 am

Session 2: Steering and Scenario Generation

A Steering Environment for Online Parallel Visualization of Legacy Parallel Simulations
Aurélien Esnard, Nicolas Richart, and Olivier Coulaud
EGRESS: Environment for Generating REalistic Scenarios for Simulations
K. N. Sridhar, Shuai Hao, Mun Choon Chan, and A. L. Ananda

10:50 am - 11:20 am: Coffee Break

11:20 am - 1:00 pm

Session 3: Peer-to-Peer

A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Collaborative Haptic Assembly
Rosa Iglesias, Sara Casado, Teresa Gutiérrez, Alejandro García-Alonso, Kian Meng Yap, Wai Yu, and Alan Marshall
Real Time P2P Network Simulation for Very Large Virtual Environment
Cavagna Romain, Bouville Christian, and Royan Jerome
A Peer-to-Peer Simulation Technique for Instanced Massively Multiplayer Games
Fábio Reis Cecin, Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer, Solon Rabello, and Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa
Distributed Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks for Web Computing Libraries
Joachim Gehweiler and Gunnar Schomaker

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm: Lunch Break

2:30 pm - 3:50 pm

Session 4: Poster and Work in Progress Session

Limiting Optimism: Time or Event Count?
Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh and Richard Linderman
Exploring the Effects of Hyper-threading on Parallel Simulation
Luciano Bononi, Michele Bracuto, Gabriele D’Angelo, and Lorenzo Donatiello
Haptic Applications Meta-Language
Fayez R. El-Far, Mohamad Eid, Mauricio Orozco, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Speedup-Precision Tradeoffs in Time-Parallel Simulation of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Damla Turgut, Guoqiang Wang, Ladislau Bölöni, and Dan C. Marinescu

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm: Coffee Break

4:20 pm - 6:00 pm

Session 5: Collaborative Virtual Environments

Occasional Users’ Experienced on Visiting a Virtual Environment
Tarja Tiainen, Tarja Katajamäki, Asko Ellman, and Taina Kaapu
Comparison of Head Gaze and Head and Eye Gaze within an Immersive Environment
Norman Murray and Dave Roberts
Exploring the Effect of Curvature on the Consistency of Dead Reckoned Paths for Different Error Threshold Metrics
Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, David Roberts, Declan Delaney, and Tomás Ward
Statistical Determination of Hybrid Threshold Parameters for Entity State Update Mechanisms in Distributed Interactive Applications
Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, Declan Delaney, and Tomás Ward

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Session 6 (Keynote Speaker): Prof. Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Multi-Level Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology – Promises and Challenges

10:00 am - 10:50 am

Session 7: Capture and Backup

A Capture and Access Mechanism for Accurate Recording and Playing of 3D Virtual Environment Simulations
Azzedine Boukerche, Altieres Ribeiro Lopes, and Regina Borges de Araujo
Scheduling Hard-Real-Time Tasks with Backup Phasing Delay
Alan A. Bertossi, Luigi V. Mancini, and Alessandra Menapace

10:50 am - 11:20 am: Coffee Break

11:20 am - 1:00 pm

Session 8: Interest Management and Group Communication

Adaptive Interest Management via Push-Pull Algorithms
Rob Minson and Georgios Theodoropoulos
Priority Based Overlay Multicast with Filtering Mechanism for Distributed Interactive Applications
Jun Yu, Ling Chen, and Gen-Cai Chen
Network Overlays for Efficient Control of Large Scale Dynamic Groups
George V. Popescu and Zhen Liu
A Smart Gnutella Overlay Formation for Collaborative Virtual Environments over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Azzedine Boukerche, Anis Zarrad, and Regina Araujo

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm: Lunch Break

2:30 pm - 3:50 pm

Session 9: Panel Session

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm: Coffee Break

4:20 pm - 6:00 pm

Session 10: Grid and Web Services

Predicting Running Time of Grid Tasks Based on CPU Load Predictions
Y. Zhang, W. Sun, and Y. Inoguchi
Grid-Enabling FIRST: Speeding Up Simulation Applications Using WinGrid
Navonil Mustafee, Anders Alstad, Bjorn Larsen, Simon J. E. Taylor, and John Ladbrook
Design of Distributed Collaborative Application through Service Aggregation
Andrew Roczniak, Jamil Melhem, Pierre Lévy, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Performance Analysis of an Adaptive Dynamic Grid-Based Approach to Data Distribution Management
Azzedine Boukerche, YunFeng Gu, and Regina B. Araujo

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

9:00 am - 10:40 am

Session 11: Time Management

Proximity-Aware Synchronization within Federation Communities
Aydin Okutanoglu and Müslim Bozyigit
Causality and Proactive Cancellation
Malolan Chetlur and Philip A. Wilsey
Analysing Probabilistically Constrained Optimism
Michael Lees, Brian Logan, Dan Chen, Ton Oguara, and Georgios Theodoropoulos
A Simulation Approach to Facilitate Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulator Development
Roland Ewald, Jan Himmelspach, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Dan Chen, and Georgios K. Theodoropoulos

10:40 am - 11:10 am: Coffee Break

11:10 am - 12:50 pm

Session 12: Interoperability and Reusability

A Middleware Level Active Replication Manager for High Performance HLA-Based Simulations on SMP Systems
Francesco Quaglia
The SIP-RTI: An HLA RTI Implementation Supporting Interoperability
Claude Van Ham and Trevor Pearce
An International Experiment in Command and Control—Simulation Interoperability Using Web Services
J. Mark Pullen, Michael R. Hieb, William P. Sudnikovich, and Patrick de Champs
Simulation Model Composition Using BOMs
Farshad Moradi, Peder Nordvaller, and Rassul Ayani

12:50 pm - 1:00 pm

Closing Remarks

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm: Lunch Break