DS-RT 2006: Malaga, Spain

Session 1: Keynote Speaker

• Steve Benford:
  The Distinctive Challenges of Pervasive Games as Distributed Real-Time Applications. 3
  

Session 2: Steering and Scenario Generation

• Aurélien Esnard, Nicolas Richart, Olivier Coulaud:
  A Steering Environment for Online Parallel Visualization of Legacy Parallel Simulations. 7-14
  
• K. N. Sridhar, Shuai Hao, Mun Choon Chan, Akkihebbal L. Ananda:
  EGRESS: Environment for Generating REalistic Scenarios for Simulations. 15-24
  

Session 3: Peer-to-Peer

• Rosa Iglesias, Sara Casado, Teresa Gutiérrez, Alejandro García-Alonso, Kian Meng Yap, Wai Yu, Alan Marshall:
  A Peer-to-peer Architecture for Collaborative Haptic Assembly. 25-34
  
• Romain Cavagna, Christian Bouville, Jérôme Royan:
  Real Time P2P Network Simulation for Very Large Virtual Environment. 35-42
  
• Fábio Reis Cecin, Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer, Solon Rabello, Jorge L. V. Barbosa:
  A peer-to-peer simulation technique for instanced massively multiplayer games. 43-50
  
• Joachim Gehweiler, Gunnar Schomaker:
  Distributed Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks for Web Computing Libraries. 51-62
  

Session 4: Poster and Work in Progress Session

Session 5: Collaborative Virtual Environments

• Tarja Tiainen, Tarja Katajamäki, Asko Ellman, Taina Kaapu:
  Occasional Users' Experiences of Visiting a Virtual Environment. 63-69
  
• Norman Murray, David J. Roberts:
  Comparison of head gaze and head and eye gaze within an immersive environment. 70-76
  
• Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, David J. Roberts, Declan Delaney, Tomás Ward:
  Exploring the Effect of Curvature on the Consistency of Dead Reckoned Paths for Different Error Threshold Metrics. 77-84
  
• Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, Declan Delaney, Tomás Ward:
  Statistical Determination of Hybrid Threshold Parameters for Entity State Update Mechanisms in Distributed Interactive Applications. 85-94
  

Session 6: Keynote Speaker

• Adelinde M. Uhrmacher:
  Multi-Level Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology -- Promises and Challenges. 95
  

Session 7: Capture and Backup

• Azzedine Boukerche, Altieres Ribeiro Lopes, Regina Borges de Araujo:
  A Capture and Access Mechanism for Accurate Recording and Playing of 3D Virtual Environment Simulations. 99-106
  
• Alan A. Bertossi, Luigi V. Mancini, Alessandra Menapace:
  Scheduling Hard-Real-Time Tasks with Backup Phasing Delay. 107-118
  

Session 8: Interest Management and Group Communication

• Rob Minson, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos:
  Adaptive Interest Management via Push-Pull Algorithms. 119-126
  
• Jun Yu, Ling Chen, Gencai Chen:
  Priority based Overlay Multicast with Filtering Mechanism for Distributed Interactive Applications. 127-134
  
• George V. Popescu, Zhen Liu:
  Network overlays for efficient control of large scale dynamic groups. 135-142
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Anis Zarrad, Regina Borges de Araujo:
  A Smart Gnutella Overlay Formation for Collaborative Virtual Environments over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. 143-156
  

Session 9: Panel Session

Session 10: Grid and Web Services

• Navonil Mustafee, Anders Alstad, Bjorn Larsen, Simon J. E. Taylor, John Ladbrook:
  Grid-enabling FIRST: Speeding Up Simulation Applications Using WinGrid. 157-164
  
• Andrew Roczniak, Jamil Melhem, Pierre Lévy, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
  Design of Distributed Collaborative Application through Service Aggregation. 165-174
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, YunFeng Gu, Regina Borges de Araujo:
  Performance Analysis of an Adaptive Dynamic Grid-Based Approach to Data Distribution Management. 175-184
  

Session 11: Time Management

• Aydin Okutanoglu, Muslim Bozyigit:
  Proximity-Aware Synchronization within Federation Communities. 185-192
  
• Malolan Chetlur, Philip A. Wilsey:
  Causality and Proactive Cancellation. 193-200
  
• Michael Lees, Brian Logan, Dan Chen, Ton Oguara, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos:
  Analysing Probabilistically Constrained Optimism. 201-208
  
• Roland Ewald, Jan Himmelspach, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Dan Chen, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos:
  A Simulation Approach to Facilitate Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulator Development. 209-218
  

Session 12: Interoperability and Reusability

• Francesco Quaglia:
  A Middleware Level Active Replication Manager for High Performance HLA-based Simulations on SMP Systems. 219-226
  
• Claude Van Ham, Trevor Pearce:
  The SIP-RTI: An HLA RTI Implementation Supporting Interoperability. 227-234
  
• J. Mark Pullen, Michael R. Hieb, William P. Sudnikovich, Patrick de Champs:
  An International Experiment in Command and Control -- Simulation Interoperability Using Web Services. 235-241
  
• Farshad Moradi, Peder Nordvaller, Rassul Ayani:
  Simulation Model Composition using BOMs. 242-252
  

Poster Papers

• Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Richard Linderman:
  Limiting Optimism: Time or Event Count? 253-256
  
• Luciano Bononi, Michele Bracuto, Gabriele D'Angelo, Lorenzo Donatiello:
  Exploring the Effects of Hyper-Threading on Parallel Simulation. 257-260
  
• Fayez R. El-Far, Mohamad A. Eid, Mauricio Orozco Trujillo, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
  Haptic Applications Meta-Language. 261-264
  
• Damla Turgut, Guoqiang Wang, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu:
  Speedup-Precision Tradeoffs in Time-Parallel Simulation of Wireless Ad hoc Networks. 265-268