1999 Western MultiConference 
WMC
January 17 - 20, 1999

Cathedral Hill Hotel - San Francisco, California


SCS
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The Society for Computer Simulation International
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB-BASED MODELING & SIMULATION

General Chair: Agostino G. Bruzzone, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Co-Chair: Adelinde Uhrmacher, Universität Ulm, Germany
Program Chair: Ernest H. Page, The MITRE Corporation, USA

The objective of Websim `99 is to continue to explore the range of issues associated with the application of the WWW as a simulation support technology. WEBSIM'99 also includes the presentation of new applications based on simulation for web software design.

M O N D A Y

Opening Session 8:30am--9:00am

WMC `99 Keynote Address 9:00am--10:00am
Adaptive Intelligent Agents
Speaker: Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University, USA

SESSION 2: 10:30am--12:00pm
Websim `99 Keynote Address
The Art of Modeling
Speaker: Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida, USA

SESSION 3: 1:30pm--3:00pm
Network Modeling

A Java Based Simulator for Ad-Hoc Networks
Miguel Sánchez, Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain

FWNS: A Framework for Web-Based Network Simulation
Dhananjai Madhava Rao, Radharamanan Radhakrishnan, Philip A. Wilsey, University of Cincinnati, USA

Aggregated Cells in a Java-Based Distributed ATM Simulator
Jya-Jang Tsai, Dilma Menezes da Silva, Universidade do São Paulo, Brazil

SESSION 4: 3:30pm--5:00pm
Civil Applications I
 
Crowd Control Simulation in a Java Based Environment
Agostino G. Bruzzone, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Robert Signorile, Boston College, USA

Web Simulation of Brain Models
Amanda Alexander, Michael Arbib, Luigi Manna, University of Southern California, USA
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico

Modeling of Urban Services by VRML and Java
Agostino G. Bruzzone, Giovanna Berrino, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
 

T U E S D A Y

SESSION 5: 8:30am--10:00am
Education and Training

A Toolbox for Teaching Queuing Scenarios on the World Wide Web
Wolfgang Kreutzer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Web-Based Micro-World Simulation for Emergency Management Training
Rego Granlund, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Teaching Fuzzy Logic Controller Using a Java-Based Simulation of a Two-Tank System
Jörg Bleymehl, Saida Sirotkine, Oleg Sirotkin, Thiemo Wild, Universität des Saarlands, Germany

SESSION 6: 10:30am--12:00pm
Military Applications I

Adaptation of a Wargaming System for Web-Based Operation
Curtis L. Blais, Susan L. Serino, VisiCom Laboratories, Inc., USA

OpSim: A Purpose-Built Distributed Simulation for the Mission Operational Environment
John R. Surdu, Gary D. Haines, Udo W. Pooch, Texas A&M University, USA

Army Model and Simulation Standards -- From Producer to Consumer; How the Process Works
Lana McGlynn, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, USA
LTC Don Timian, Army Model and Simulation Office, USA

SESSION 7: 1:30pm--3:00pm
Parallel and Distributed Simulation

Jane --- An Architecture for Interactive Parallel Simulations
Kalyan S. Perumalla, Richard M. Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

The Parsimony Project: A Distributed Simulation Testbed in Java
Bruno R. Preiss, Ka Wing Carey Wan, University of Waterloo, Canada

The Simulation Intranet Architecture
Victor Holmes, John Linebarger, David Miller, Ruth Vandewart, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

SESSION 8: 3:30pm--5:00pm
DEVS-Based Approaches

Discrete Event Simulation Using the JavaBeans Component Model
Herbert Praehofer, Johannes Sametinger, Alois Stritzinger, Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria

DEVS Framework Instrumented with Database for Web-Based Workflow Modeling Simulation
Ki Jung Hong, Jong-Kwon Lee, Dae Hyun Kim, Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, South Korea

Collaborative DEVS Modeler
Hessam S. Sarjoughian, James Nutaro, Bernard P. Zeigler, University of Arizona, USA
 

W E D N E S D A Y

SESSION 9: 8:30am--10:00am
Modeling and Simulation Environments I

Smart Virtual Prototypes for Web-Based Development Environments
Marko Salmela, VTT Electronics, Finland
Tuomo Tuikka, University of Oulu, Finland

A Dynamic Docucentric Environment for System Design Support
Al Sadiq ul Amin M Madani Halepota, Philip W. Grant, Christopher P. Jobling, University of Wales Swansea, Wales

Project Management Tools: Simulation on Web Environment
Agostino G. Bruzzone, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Benedetto Fassone, Ansaldo Energia s.p.a., Italy

SESSION 10 10:30am--12:00pm
High-Level Architecture

Investigating Interoperability in a Commercial Gaming Engine
Terry M. Crews, Kurt F. Louis, The MITRE Corporation, USA

On the HLA- and Internet-Based Coupling of Commercial Simulation Tools for Production Networks
Günther Seliger, Dirk Krützfeldt, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Peter Lorenz, Steffen Straßburger, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Germany

WebHLA -- An Interactive Multiplayer Environment for High Performance Distributed Modeling and Simulation
Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Subhash Nair, Hasan T. Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin Ozdemir, Tom A. Pulikal, Syracuse University, USA

SESSION 11: 1:30pm--3:00pm
Visualization and Animation

SimTracker -- Using the Web to Track Computer Simulations
Jeffery Long, Paul Spencer, Rebecca Springmeyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

3D Integrated Circuit Layout Visualization using VRML
Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ricardo Augusto da Luz Reis Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Java-Based Animation of Probabilistic Search Algorithms
Michael Syrjakow, Helena Szczerbicka, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

SESSION 12: 3:30pm--5:00pm
Digital Objects: What Do They Look Like on the Inside?
Chair: Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida, USA
 

T H U R S D A Y

SESSION 13: 8:30am--10:00am
Modeling and Simulation Environments II

WILDFLOW --- Components for Building Scientific and Technical Work Environments
Andreas Schmidt, Clemens Düpmeier, Horst Eggert, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

A Java Simulation Environment for System Level Synthesis
Francesco Curatelli, Leonardo Mangeruca, Lorenzo Motta, Università degli Studi di Genova/DIBE, Italy

JavaBean-Based Simulation with Operational Procedure Tables (OPT)
Miki Fukunari, Yu-liang Chi, Philip M. Wolfe, Arizona State University, USA

SESSION 14: 10:30am--12:00pm
Real--Time Applications

Design Simulation of a Web-Based Supervisory Control System
Yeuk F. Ho, Lawrence W. Stark, University of California, USA

Web-Based Forest Fire Management Information Model and Services
Theodore K. Apostolopoulos, George Y. Chalkiadakis, Victoria C. Daskalou, Nickolaos A. Diamantidis, Anna S. Kefala, Athens University of Economy and Business, Greece

SESSION 15: 1:30pm--3:00pm
Military and Civil Applications II

Visualizing the Wargame -- Web-Based Applications for Viewing a Course of Action
Jeffrey J. Wynn, John D. Roberts, Mark O. Kinkead, The MITRE Corporation, USA

The Weather Scenario Generator
Eric A. Kihn, NOAA/NGDC, USA,
Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Alexander V. Troussov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia,
Steven J. Lowe, Ronald E. Englebretson, SAIC, USA,
Richard A. Siquig, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

BioCoRe: A Collaboratory for Structural Biology
Milind Bhandarkar, Gila Budescu, Jesus A. Izaguirre, Sergei Izrailev, Laxmikant V. Kale, Dorina Kosztin, Ferenc Molnar, James C. Phillips, Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign, USA,
William F. Humphrey, Los Alamos National Laboratory


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