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NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING, ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

August 15-18, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM and SIGARCH

 

Keynote Title: On-Line Simulation Techniques for Real-Time Management of Systems

On-line simulation refers to the use of simulation tools to aid in the management of  operational systems. For example, faster-than-real-time simulations of the air  transportation network can be used to aid air traffic controllers in managing traffic flows  to reduce congestion and improve safety. Live feeds from air traffic control centers are used to build a situation database indicating the current status of the transportation  network. This database is used to initialize faster-than-real-time simulations that are used to explore the impact of decisions made by traffic controllers in order to determine appropriate courses of action. Other applications of on-line simulation include use in managing military engagements, communication networks, or supply chains. I will describe techniques that we have developed to realize efficient on-line simulations. Parallel execution is used to achieve fast execution of simulation models. Techniques to incrementally clone running parallel simulations enable rapid, concurrent evaluation of alternate courses of action in order to aid in decision making processes. Our experiences in applying these techniques to applications such as air traffic control will be described.

Brief Biography of Dr. Robert Fujimoto

Richard Fujimoto is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1980 and 1983 (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) and B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1977 and 1978 (Computer Science and Computer Engineering). He has been an active researcher in the parallel and distributed simulation community since 1985. Among his current activities he is the technical lead concerning time management issues for the DoD High Level Architecture (HLA) effort. He is an area editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and has also been chair of the steering committee for the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, (PADS) since 1990. He also served as a member of the Conference Committee for the Simulation Interoperability Workshop.