CALL FOR PAPERS - PADS 2007

                    21st ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on
            Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
                          (PADS 2007)

                       http://pads07.org

    [In conjunction with Federated Computing Research Conference FCRC 2007]

                           www.acm.org/fcrc

                          June 12 -- 15, 2007
                      San Diego, California, USA

Computer simulation is being acknowledged as the ``third leg'' of scientific
discovery and analysis, along with theory and experimentation.  In addition to
traditional areas such as defense and industry, emerging needs in areas such as
emergency planning and homeland security are raising new challenges in fast,
interoperable computer simulations.  The PADS workshop is soliciting papers in
any and all of these areas.  In addition to the traditional focus on parallel
and distributed simulation methods and applications, the conference will
include all aspects of simulation technology, including the following:

  * The construction of simulation engines using advanced computer
    science technology.
  * Techniques for constructing scalable simulations.
  * Advanced modeling techniques that allow solution of previously
    difficult or impossible problem domains.
  * Simulation visualization techniques.
  * Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation,
    including synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and
    load balancing.
  * Applications of large--scale or distributed simulation methods.
  * Distributed interactive simulation and distributed virtual
    environments.
  * Tools and techniques for interoperability of
    simulations; emulations of real systems.
  * Mechanisms for efficient design of experiments.

Sponsors (approvals pending):

  ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), IEEE Computer Society
  Technical Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM), and Society for Modeling and
  Simulation International (SCS).

Important Dates:

  Paper manuscripts must be submitted no later than October 1, 2006.  Electronic
  submission of postscript or PDF is highly encouraged, using the URL given
  below.  Hard copy submissions are allowed, but six copies must be
  received by the program co--chairs by the deadline. Notification of acceptance
  will be made by January 5, 2007.  Camera ready copies must be submitted by
  April 1, 2007.

Submissions:

  Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication
  elsewhere.  Each submission must be accompanied by the following information:
  a short abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a
  contact person for correspondence, post and email addresses.  Papers must be
  written in English and should not exceed 10 pages using IEEE Proceedings
  Formatting Guidelines.  The final versions of accepted papers would be
  limited to 8 pages, with option to buy additional pages.

  All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process, i.e.,
  the identity of authors, and referees will not be revealed to each other. To
  ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in
  the paper, and bibliographic references should be suitably modified.

  Selected articles from PADS 2007 will be considered for extension and
  publication within a Special Issue of SCS Simulation.

General Chair

   Katherine L. Morse
   SAIC, 10260 Campus Point Dr.
   MS A1
   San Diego, CA. 92121
   morsek@saic.com

Program Co--Chairs

   Kalyan S. Perumalla
   Oak Ridge National Lab
   PO Box 6008, MS-6085
   Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6085
   perumallaks@ornl.gov

   George F. Riley
   Georgia Inst. of Tech.
   Dept. of ECE
   Atlanta GA. 30332-0250
   riley@ece.gatech.edu

URL: Refer to the conference web page at:

    www.pads-workshop.org/pads2007

for paper submission instructions and up--to--date information.

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Steering Committee

    S. J. Turner  (Chair)     Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
    S. J. E. Taylor           Brunel Univ., UK
    A. S. Elmaghraby          Univ. of Louisville, USA
    D. M. Nicol               Univ. of Illinois, USA
    B. W. Unger               Univ. of Calgary, Canada
    G. F. Riley               Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
    R. M. Fujimoto (Honorary) Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA

General Chair

    K. L. Morse               SAIC, USA

Program Co-Chairs

    K. S. Perumalla           Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
    G. F. Riley               Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA

Program Committee Members

    D.    Bauer               Mitre Corp., USA
    W.    Cai                 Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
    C.    Carothers           Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USA
    L.    Donatiello          Univ. of Bologna, Italy
    R. M. Fujimoto            Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
    D.    Jefferson           Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab, USA
    A.    Lehmann             Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
    M.    Liljenstam          Univ. of Illinois, USA
    J.    Liu                 Colorado School of Mines, USA
    J.    Luethi              FHS KufsteinTirol, Austria
    D. M. Nicol               Univ. of Illinois, USA
    F.    Quaglia             Univ. of Rome, Italy
    R.    Simmonds            Univ. of Calgary, Canada
    B. K. Szymanski           Rensselaer Polytech, USA
    G.    Tackett             U.S. Army, USA
    S. J. E. Taylor           Brunel Univ., UK
    Y. M. Teo                 National Univ. of Singapore
    C.    Tropper             McGill Univ., Canada
    S. J. Turner              Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
    A.    Uhrmacher           Univ. of Rostock, Germany
    B.    Unger               Univ. of Calgary, Canada
    F. P. Wieland             Sensis Corp., USA
    P. A. Wilsey              Univ. of Cincinnati, USA

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