DS-RT 2008: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Keynote Speaker

• Stephen John Turner:
  Distributed Simulation on the Grid: Opportunities and Challenges. 3
  

Grid and Web Services

• Stefan Leye, Jan Himmelspach, Matthias Jeschke, Roland Ewald, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher:
  A Grid-Inspired Mechanism for Coarse-Grained Experiment Execution. 7-16
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Fabio M. Iwasaki, Regina Borges de Araujo, Ednaldo B. Pizzolato:
  Web-Based Distributed Simulations Visualization and Control with HLA and Web Services. 17-23
  

Interest Management and Group Communication

• Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, Shervin Shirmohammadi:
  A Dynamic Area of Interest Management and Collaboration Model for P2P MMOGs. 27-34
  
• Carlos Eduardo Benevides Bezerra, Fábio Reis Cecin, Cláudio F. R. Geyer:
  A3: A Novel Interest Management Algorithm for Distributed Simulations of MMOGs. 35-42
  
• Rob Minson, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos:
  Load Skew in Cell-Based Interest Management Systems. 43-50
  
• Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos, Rob Minson:
  Evaluating Large Scale Distributed Simulation of P2P Networks. 51-58
  

Scheduling and Load Balancing

• Elie El Ajaltouni, Azzedine Boukerche, Ming Zhang:
  An Efficient Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for Distributed Simulations on a Grid Infrastructure. 61-68
  
• Manel Khlif, Mohamed Shawky:
  Observability Checking to Enhance Diagnosis of Real Time Electronic Systems. 69-74
  
• Mais Nijim, Adam Manzanares, Xiao Qin:
  An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems. 75-82
  
• Wei Li, Gaocai Wang, Wei Zhao:
  Stochastic Analysis of Expected Schedulability for Real-Time Tasks on a Single Computing System. 83-88
  

Keynote Speaker

• Thomas A. Furness:
  e-Merging Realities. 91
  

Collaborative Virtual Environments

• Duong Ta, Suiping Zhou, Wentong Cai, Xueyan Tang, Rassul Ayani:
  Network-Aware Server Placement for Highly Interactive Distributed Virtual Environments. 95-102
  
• Rob Aspin, Matt Smith, Charles Hutchinson, Len Funk:
  MediVol: An initial Study into Real-Time, Interactive 3D Visualisation of Soft Tissue Pathologies. 103-110
  
• Robin Wolff, David J. Roberts, Alessio Murgia, Norman Murray, John Rae, William Steptoe, Anthony Steed, Paul M. Sharkey:
  Communicating Eye Gaze across a Distance without Rooting Participants to the Spot. 111-118
  
• Kazuki Hosoya, Yutaka Ishibashi, Shinji Sugawara, Kostas E. Psannis:
  Effects of Group Synchronization Control in Networked Virtual Environments with Avatars. 119-127
  

Optimistic Simulation

• Qi Liu, Gabriel A. Wainer:
  Lightweight Time Warp - A Novel Protocol for Parallel Optimistic Simulation of Large-Scale DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models. 131-138
  
• Stefan Leye, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Corrado Priami:
  A Bounded-Optimistic, Parallel Beta-Binders Simulator. 139-148
  
• Alfred Park, Richard M. Fujimoto:
  Optimistic Parallel Simulation over Public Resource-Computing Infrastructures and Desktop Grids. 149-156
  
• Valerio Gheri, Giovanni Castellari, Francesco Quaglia:
  Controlling Bias in Optimistic Simulations with Space Uncertain Events. 157-164
  

P2P Networks

• Azzedine Boukerche, Ming Zhang, Hengheng Xie:
  An Efficient Time Management Scheme for Large-Scale Distributed Simulation Based on JXTA Peer-to-Peer Network. 167-172
  
• Wissam Mallouli, Amel Mammar, Ana R. Cavalli:
  Modeling System Security Rules with Time Constraints Using Timed Extended Finite State Machines. 173-180
  
• Hussein Al Osman, Mohamad A. Eid, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
  Evaluating ALPHAN with Multi-user Collaboration. 181-186
  
• Rabih Dagher, Cristian Gadea, Bogdan Ionescu, Dan Ionescu, Robin Tropper:
  A SIP Based P2P Architecture for Social Networking Multimedia. 187-193
  
• Andrew Roczniak, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Ross Kouhi:
  Design of Application-Specific Incentives in P2P Networks. 194-203
  

Simulation

• Doris Zachhuber, Jakob Doppler, Alois Ferscha, Cornel Klein, Jelena Mitic:
  Simulating the Potential Savings of Implicit Energy Management on a City Scale. 207-216
  
• Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha:
  Simulation Driven Experiment Control in Driver Assistance Assessment. 217-226
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Robson Eduardo De Grande:
  Optimized Federate Migration for Large-Scale HLA-Based Simulations. 227-235
  
• Khalid Almahorg, Otman Basir:
  Simulation-Based Performance Comparison of VANETs Backbone Formation Algorithms. 236-242
  

Applications

• James J. Nutaro, Stephanie Jarboe, Bernard P. Zeigler, Dale Fulton:
  A Method for Generating Synthetic Air Tracks. 245-251
  
• Alessio Murgia, Robin Wolff, William Steptoe, Paul M. Sharkey, David J. Roberts, Estefania Guimaraes, Anthony Steed, John Rae:
  A Tool for Replay and Analysis of Gaze-Enhanced Multiparty Sessions Captured in Immersive Collaborative Environments. 252-258
  
• J. Russell Noseworthy:
  The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) Supporting the Decentralized Development of Distributed Applications and LVC Simulations. 259-268
  
• Yutaka Ishibashi, Youichi Kurokawa, Shinji Sugawara:
  Error Control Based on Importance in a Remote Haptic Calligraphy System. 269-274
  

Special Session on DEVS

• Yi Sun, James Nutaro:
  Performance Improvement Using Parallel Simulation Protocol and Time Warp for DEVS Based Applications. 277-284
  
• Hengheng Xie, Azzedine Boukerche, Ming Zhang, Bernard P. Zeigler:
  Design of A QoS-Aware Service Composition and Management System in Peer-to-Peer Network Aided by DEVS. 285-291
  
• Bo Feng, Gabriel A. Wainer:
  a .NET Remoting-Based Distributed Simulation Approach for DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models. 292-299
  
• Khaldoon Al-Zoubi, Gabriel A. Wainer:
  Interfacing and Coordination for a DEVS Simulation Protocol Standard. 300-307
  

Poster/Demos

• Hauke Krüger, Peter Vary:
  RTPROC: A System for Rapid Real-Time Prototyping in Audio Signal Processing. 311-314
  
• Ana R. Cavalli, Edgardo Montes de Oca, Wissam Mallouli, Mounir Lallali:
  Two Complementary Tools for the Formal Testing of Distributed Systems with Time Constraints. 315-318
  
• Emanuele Galli, Gaetano Cavarretta, Salvatore Tucci:
  HLA-OMNET++: An HLA Compliant Network Simulator. 319-321
  
• Shanna-Shaye Forbes, Hiren D. Patel, Edward A. Lee, Hugo A. Andrade:
  An Automated Mapping of Timed Functional Specification to a Precision Timed Architecture. 322-325
  
• Bhuvaneswari Arunachalan, Janet Light:
  Agent-Based Mobile Middleware Architecture (AMMA) for Patient-Care Clinical Data Messaging Using Wireless Networks. 326-329
  
• Patricia Derler, Edward A. Lee, Slobodan Matic:
  Simulation and Implementation of the PTIDES Programming Model. 330-333