PRELIMINARY TRACK LAYOUT:

2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'02)

SESSION 1: Optimization and Response Surfaces
Chair: Agostino G. Bruzzone (University of Genoa)

• "An Optimization-Based Multi-Resolution Simulation Methodology"
  Darren T. Drewry (Duke University), Paul F. Reynolds, Jr. and William R. Emanuel (University of Virginia)

• "On the Response Surface Methodology and Designed Experiments for Computationally Intensive Distributed Aeroscape Simulations"
  Paul Stewart, Peter J. Fleming (University of Sheffield) and Sheena A. MacKenzie (QinetiQ, Ltd.)

• "Gaussian Radial Basis Functions for Simulation Metamodeling"
  Miyounf Shin (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Robert G. Sargent and Amrit L. Goel (Syracuse University)

SESSION 2: Parallel and Distributed Systems
Chair: Paul F. Reynolds (University of Virginia)

• "Load Sharing in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems"
  Helen Karatza (Aristole University of Thessaloniki) and Ralph Hilzer (California State University, Chico)

• "UML Based Modeling of Performance Oriented Parallel and Distributed Applications"
  Sabri Pllana and Thomas Fahringer (University of Vienna)

• "Simulation Analysis of RLC Timers in UMTS Systems"
  Xiao Xu, Yi-Ciun Chen, Hun Xu, Eren Gonen (Motorola, Inc.) and Peijuan Liu (Northwestern University)

SESSION 3: Virtual Worlds
Chair: George W. Zobrist (University of Missouri, Rolla)

• "Experiencing Virtual Factories of the Future"
  Anthony P. Walker (Lanner Group) and John Ladbrook (Ford Motor Company)

• "VRML Clients Linked through Concurrent Chat"
  Lee A. Belfore (Old Dominion University) and Sudheer Battula (YnotLearn, Inc.)

• "Simulation Based Optimization in Fishery Management"
  Farhad Azadivar (University of Massachusetts), Tu Truong (Kansas State Univeristy), Kevin Stokebury and Brian J. Rothschild (University of Massachusetts)

SESSION 4: Methods for Special Applications
Chair: Martha Centeno (Florida International University)

• "Incorporating Biology into Discrete Event Simulation Models of Organ Allocation"
  Jennifer Kreke, Andrew Schaefer and Derek C. Angus (University of Pittsburgh)

• "A Recursive Method for Traffic Management through a Complex Path Network"
  Michael Norman (Brooks Automation)

• "Cell-DEVS Quantization Techniques in a Fire Spreading Application"
  Alexandre Muzy, Eric Innocenti, Antoine Aiello, Jean-Francois Santucci (Universita di Corsica) and Gabriel A. Wainer (Carleton University)

SESSION 5: Practice
Chair: Boleslaw K. Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

• "An Examination of Assumptions in Extend, Arena, and Silk"
  Sarah E. Law and Sid Redman (The Boeing Company)

• "Why Initial Conditions Are Important"
  Bruce Gunn and Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin University)

• "Guidelines for Designing Simulation Building Blocks"
  Edwin C. Valentin and Alexander Verbraeck (Delft University of Technology)

SESSION 6: Extensions
Chair: Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Software, Inc.)

• "Simulation Prototyping"
  Ingolf Stahl (Stockholm School of Economics)

• "An Efficient Importance Sampling Method for Rare Event Simulation in Large Scale Tandem Networks"
  Lei Wei (University of Central Florida) and Honghui Qi (Weiston Communications)

• "Performance Analysis of Real-Time DEVS Models"
  Gabriel A. Wainer (Carleton University) and Ezequiel Glinsky (Universidad de Buenos Aires)