PRELIMINARY TRACK LAYOUT:

2009 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'09)

SESSION 1: Interoperability in Simulation Services and Systems
Chair: Andreas Tolk (Old Dominion University)

• "DEVS Namespace for Interoperable DEVS/SOA"
  Chungman Seo and Bernard P. Zeigler (University of Arizona)

• "Performing Distributed Simulation with RESTful Web-Services Approach"
  Khaldoon Al-Zoubi and Gabriel Wainer (Carleton University)

• "Input Data Management Methodology for Discrete Event Simulation"
  Nils Bengtsson (Production Modeling Corporation), Guodong Shao, Y. Tina Lee, Swee Leong, Charles McLean (NIST) and Bjorn Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology)

SESSION 2: Interoperability in Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Chair: Maria Hybinette (University of Georgia)

• "A Proposed Open Cognitive Architecture Framework"
  Jeffrey Steinman (JPL/CalTech)

• "Predictive Algorithms for Aggregation and Disaggregation in Mixed Mode Simulation"
  Benjamin Yuan Wei Chua and Malcolm Yoke Hean Low (Nanyang Technological University)

• "On the Scalability and Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel Verilog Simulations"
  Sina Meraji, Wei Zhang and Carl Tropper (McGill University)

SESSION 3: Ontological Support for Interoperablity
Chair: John A. Miller (University of Georgia)

• "Towards Ontology-Driven Interoperability for Simulation-Based Applications"
  Perakath Benjamin and Kumar Akella (Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.)

• "Ontologies and Tools for Analyzing and Synthesizing LVC Confederations"
  Reginald Ford, David Martin, Mark Johnson and Daniel Elenius (SRI International)

• "Supporting Interoperability Using the Discrete-event Modeling Ontology (DeMO)"
  Gregory A. Silver (Anderson College), Kushel Rai Bellipady, John A. Miller, William S. York and Krys J. Kochut (University of Georgia)

SESSION 4: Using Formalisms and Frameworks to Improve Interoperability
Chair: Reginald Ford (Stanford Research Institute)

• "A Time-Based Formalism for the Validation of Semantic Composability,"
  Claudia Szabo, Yong Meng Teo (National University of Singapore) and Simon See (Sun Microsystems Inc.)

• "A Comparison of SOAP and REST Implementations of a Service Based Interaction Independence Middleware Framework"
  Gavin Mulligan and Denis Gracanin (Virginia Tech)

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