The PADS workshop provide a forum for presenting recent work that enhances the understanding of parallel and distributed simulation techniques (including optimistic, conservative, real-time and interactive synchronization, synthetic environments, virtual reality, DIS and HLA, and web-based simulation) and their use in real-world situations.

Papers on a diversity of topics are welcomed, particularly those that indicate and explore new directions; the scope of PADS 2001 is by no means limited to the topics explicitly mentioned here, nor to those discussed at previous meetings. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to:

• Algorithms and methods for parallel simulation (e.g. synchronization, scheduling, memory management, load balancing, partitioning and allocation.)
• Models of parallel simulation (e.g. stochastic, Markovian, process algebraic, temporal logic.) 
• Methodology for parallel simulation (e.g. system modeling for parallel simulation, specification, adapting sequential methodologies, parallelizing existing simulations.)
• Parallel simulation languages and models (e.g. language and implementation issues, models of parallel simulation, execution environments, libraries.) 
• Performance of parallel simulation (e.g. theoretical and empirical studies, prediction and analysis, cost models, benchmarks, comparative studies.)
• Application of parallel simulation (e.g. computer architecture, VLSI, telecommunication networks, manufacturing, dynamic systems, biological/social systems, parallel and distributed computing.)
• Web based distributed simulation (e.g. multimedia and real time applications, fault tolerance, implementation issues, use of Java, CORBA.)
• Distributed Interactive Simulation (e.g. synchronization in multi-user distributed simulation, virtual reality environments, HLA, interoperability.)

We also solicit application studies and experience reports from practitioners who have tried to apply these techniques in real-world applications. Success stories that demonstrate the practical benefits that parallel, distributed, and web-based simulation can offer are obviously welcome, but we would also encourage those for whom these techniques did not prove successful to characterize those aspects of their problem that caused the most difficulty and thereby frame challenges for future research. (Naturally, deeper analysis than just ``we tried this and it did/didn't work'' would be preferred!)

Sponsors:

ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM)
IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Simulation (IEEE-TCSIM)
Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)

General and Program Chairs:

General Co-Chairs	Program Chair
Rajive Bagrodia        Eva Deelman	Philip A. Wilsey
3531F Boelter Hall          3532C Boelter Hall	Experimental Computing Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science, UCLA	Dept. of ECECS, PO BOX 210030
Los Angles, CA 90095-1596	Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030
USA	USA
Fax: +1 310 794-5056	Fax: +1 513 556-7326
Voice: +1 310 825-0956       +1 310 825-2091	Voice: +1 513 556-4779
Email: rajive@cs.ucla.edu       deelman@cs.ucla.edu	Email: philip.wilsey@ieee.org