[hpc-announce] CFP 4th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations (PADABS2016)

[Gennaro Cordasco]

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Call for Papers: PADABS 2016
4th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations
http://www.padabs.org
August 22nd or 23th, 2016, Grenoble (France), jointly with Euro-Par 2016,
August 22-26th,
https://europar2016.inria.fr

Important Dates
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- Workshop papers due: May 6, 2016
- Workshop author notification: June 17, 2016
- Workshop: August 22/23, 2016
- Workshop camera-ready papers due:  October 3, 2016

Organizers
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- Vittorio Scarano (Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy), chair
- Gennaro Cordasco (Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy)
- Paul Richmond (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Carmine Spagnuolo (Universita’ degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)

Program Committee (tentative)
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- Maria Chli (Aston University, United Kingdom)
- Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
- Biagio Cosenza (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- Nick Collier (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)
- Andrew Evans, (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
- Bernardino Frola (The MathWorks, Cambridge, UK)
- Joanna Kolodziej (Cracow University of Technology and AGH University of
Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
- Nicola Lettieri (Universita' del Sannio e ISFOL, Italy)
- Sean Luke (George Mason University, USA)
- Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Mario Paolucci (CNR, Italy)
- Paul Richmond (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
- Arnold Rosenberg (Northeastern University, USA)
- Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
- Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)


Objectives of the Workshop
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Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research
and
management in many fields such as ecology, economics, sociology, etc..
In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a
key instrument to the generative approach, essential for understanding
complex social
phenomena.
But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of
mobile robots and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based
Simulation Models is recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms
that can help the development and testing of new models in each specific
field by
providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed up and make massive
simulations       possible.The key objective of this Third Workshop on
Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based Simulations is to bring  together the researchers that are
interested
in getting more performances from their simulations, by using synchronized,
many-core
simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI)
and
loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous
setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this
field.
They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to Distributed
simulation environments. In the first category, you can find FLAME GPU, that
allows also non GPU specialists to harness the GPUs performance for real
time simulation and visualization. For tightly-coupled, large computing
clusters and supercomputers
a very popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing
(REPAST-HPC),
a C++ based modeling system. On the distributed side, recent work on
Distributed Mason, allows non specialists to use heterogeneous hardware and
software in local area networks for enlarging the size and speeding up the
simulation of complex Agent-Based models.

Topics of interest
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- Frameworks for parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Case studies of ABSs in parallel/distributed settings, with an emphasis
on the technical implementation, architectural choices and their impact on
performances.
- Benchmark parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Open benchmark models contributing towards OpenAB initiative (
www.openab.org).
- Debugging parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Formal methods and algorithms for ABSs in parallel/distributed models.
- Load Balancing algorithms, techniques and frameworks.
- Management and deployment of parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Visualization of parallel/distributed ABSs.

Paper submission
==============
The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format)
and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 3 reviewers of the Program
Committee.
Acceptance will depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to
the Workshop theme. Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by
Springer in the Lecture
Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops. Submissions and
reviewing will be through EasyChair via https://europar2016.inria.fr.

Workshop Co-Chairs
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- Vittorio Scarano: vitsca at dia.unisa.it
- Gennaro Cordasco: gennaro.cordasco at unina2.it
- Paul Richmond: p.richmond at sheffield.ac.uk
- Carmine Spagnuolo: cspagnuolo at unisa.it
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