MESSAGE
FROM THE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS We welcome
you to the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium
on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT 2009), held
this
year in the
heart of South-East Asia, Singapore. The island of
Singapore has a long and colourful history. For many centuries, it was controlled
by the Sri Vijaya empire,
with
a fortified city known as Temasek (Sea
Town)
established in the 14th century. From that time, the island has also
been known
as Singapura (Lion City) after a visiting
Sri Vijayan prince saw an animal he took
to be a lion. Sir Stamford
Raffles established Singapore as a
British trading colony in 1819 and it became an independent nation in
1965.
Since independence, it has become one of the world's most prosperous
countries
with strong international trading links. Singapore is also a dynamic city rich in contrast and colour,
where you will find a harmonious blend of culture, cuisine, arts and
architecture. With its
friendly and
welcoming people, state-of-the-art infrastructure and spectacular
events, Singapore
has everything to make your stay a most memorable experience. This year
DS-RT received a
large number of submissions, strengthening its status as a leading
symposium in
its research area. We are
also delighted that Kalyan Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
and Steve
Ellis (NASA Ames Research Center) have accepted our invitation and will
provide
keynote talks at the symposium. For those
interested in the history of DS-RT, the
previous events in this series were held as follows: DiS-RT 97, Eliat, Israel, January 9-10, 1997 DiS-RT 98, Montreal, Canada, July 19-20,1998 DiS-RT 99, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, October 22-23, 1999 DS-RT
2000, San Francisco, California, USA, August 24-26, 2000 DS-RT
2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, August 13-15, 2001 DS-RT
2002, Forth Worth, Texas, USA, October 11-13, 2002 DS-RT
2003, Delft, The Netherlands, October 23-25, 2003 DS-RT
2004, Budapest, Hungary, October 21-23, 2004 DS-RT
2005, Montreal, Canada, October 10-12, 2005 DS-RT
2006, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, October
2-4, 2006 DS-RT
2007, Chania, Crete Island, Greece,
October 22-24,
2007 DS-RT 2008,
Vancouver, Canada, October 27-29, 2008 DS-RT 2009
takes place at the Nanyang
Executive Centre, located on the Yunnan Garden campus of Nanyang
Technological University. We would like to thank all members of the
organizing
committee who have contributed in many different ways.
We are particularly grateful to Wentong Cai
and Abed El Saddik,
the
Program Co-Chairs, for their work in organizing the technical program,
Malcolm
Low and Michael Lees for their help with local arrangements, Luciano Bononi and Marco Di Felice,
our Webmasters, and Mirela Notare
and Helen Karatza, our Publicity Chairs.
We would
also like to give special thanks to the program committee and outside
reviewers, who provided high quality reviews of the many submissions. Finally, we give special thanks to
Silvia Ceballos and the editorial staff at
IEEE
Computer Society Press for their work in producing these proceedings. Enjoy the
symposium and enjoy Singapore! Stephen J.
Turner
David
J. Roberts Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
University
of Salford, UK DS-RT 2009
General Co-Chairs MESSAGE
FROM THE PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS A
warm welcome to DS-RT 2009, the thirteenth IEEE/ACM Symposium on
Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications. We hope we have
arranged an exciting program this year, with two keynote speakers who
are
prominent in their research areas. Kalyan Perumalla
from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will speak on "Switching
to High Gear: Opportunities for Grand-scale Real-time Simulations" and
Stephen
R. Ellis from NASA Ames Research Center will talk about "Latency and
Dynamic
Fidelity in Virtual Environments". DS-RT
2009 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations
and real
time applications. In particular,
the regular papers this year are grouped
into the
following sessions: Performance and Interest Management,
Interoperability and Composibility, High
Level Architecture (HLA), Consistency
and Latency, Virtual Reality, Disaster Management, Simulation Studies,
and
Real-time Applications. In
keeping with the DS-RT tradition, a Best Paper Committee (chaired
by Philip Wilsey with Michael Lees and
Nick Avis as
the members) will select the DS-RT 2009 Best Paper Award from the most
highly
ranked papers by reviewers. The
candidates for this year's best paper are (in no particular order): Synchronised
Range Queries Vinoth
Suryanaryanan, Georgios
Theodoropoulos, Rob Minson Multi-User
Gaming on the Grid Using a Service Oriented HLA RTI Pan
Ke, Stephen John Turner, Wentong Cai,
Zengxiang Li An
Approach
for Parallel Interest Matching in Distributed Virtual Environments Elvis
S. Liu, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos Exploring
an
Information Framework for Consistency Maintenance in Distributed
Interactive
Applications Xin
Zhang, Tomas Ward, Seamus Mcloone, Symbiotic
Simulation Control in Supply Chain of Lubricant Additive Industry Fanchao
Zeng, Stephen J Turner, Heiko Aydt Dynamic
Load
Balancing Using Grid Services for HLA-Based Simulations on Large-Scale
Distributed Systems Robson
Eduardo De Grande, Azzedine Boukerche The
Best Paper Award will be announced during the banquet at the
conference. On behalf of DS-RT
2008 Program Co-Chairs, we are pleased to report that the winner for
the DS-RT
2008 Best Paper was "ALPHAN: A Haptic
Enabled
Protocol with Multi-User Collaboration" by Hussein Al Osman, Mohamad Eid,
and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik. Congratulations! We
would also like to express our appreciation to all TPC members
and additional reviewers for their valuable time spent on reviewing the
papers. Particularly, we would
like to thank Michael Lees for his help during the review process and
Philip Wilsey for chairing the Best Paper
Committee. Hope
you enjoy the Symposium and have a wonderful time in
Singapore! Wentong
Cai
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
University of Ottawa, Canada DS-RT
2009 Program Co-Chairs |