DS-RT 2006: Malaga, Spain
10th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT 2006), 2-4 October 2006, Malaga, Spain. IEEE Computer Society 2006 ISBN 0-7695-2697-7
Session 1: Keynote Speaker
Steve Benford: The Distinctive Challenges of Pervasive Games as Distributed Real-Time Applications. 3
Session 2: Steering and Scenario Generation
Aurélien Esnard, Nicolas Richart, Olivier Coulaud: A Steering Environment for Online Parallel Visualization of Legacy Parallel Simulations. 7-14
K. N. Sridhar, Shuai Hao, Mun Choon Chan, Akkihebbal L. Ananda: EGRESS: Environment for Generating REalistic Scenarios for Simulations. 15-24
Session 3: Peer-to-Peer
Rosa Iglesias, Sara Casado, Teresa Gutiérrez, Alejandro García-Alonso, Kian Meng Yap, Wai Yu, Alan Marshall: A Peer-to-peer Architecture for Collaborative Haptic Assembly. 25-34
Romain Cavagna, Christian Bouville, Jérôme Royan: Real Time P2P Network Simulation for Very Large Virtual Environment. 35-42
Fábio Reis Cecin, Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer, Solon Rabello, Jorge L. V. Barbosa: A peer-to-peer simulation technique for instanced massively multiplayer games. 43-50
Joachim Gehweiler, Gunnar Schomaker: Distributed Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks for Web Computing Libraries. 51-62
Session 4: Poster and Work in Progress Session
Session 5: Collaborative Virtual Environments
Tarja Tiainen, Tarja Katajamäki, Asko Ellman, Taina Kaapu: Occasional Users' Experiences of Visiting a Virtual Environment. 63-69
Norman Murray, David J. Roberts: Comparison of head gaze and head and eye gaze within an immersive environment. 70-76
Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, David J. Roberts, Declan Delaney, Tomás Ward: Exploring the Effect of Curvature on the Consistency of Dead Reckoned Paths for Different Error Threshold Metrics. 77-84
Damien Marshall, Séamus McLoone, Declan Delaney, Tomás Ward: Statistical Determination of Hybrid Threshold Parameters for Entity State Update Mechanisms in Distributed Interactive Applications. 85-94
Session 6: Keynote Speaker
Adelinde M. Uhrmacher: Multi-Level Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology -- Promises and Challenges. 95
Session 7: Capture and Backup
Azzedine Boukerche, Altieres Ribeiro Lopes, Regina Borges de Araujo: A Capture and Access Mechanism for Accurate Recording and Playing of 3D Virtual Environment Simulations. 99-106
Alan A. Bertossi, Luigi V. Mancini, Alessandra Menapace: Scheduling Hard-Real-Time Tasks with Backup Phasing Delay. 107-118
Session 8: Interest Management and Group Communication
Rob Minson, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos: Adaptive Interest Management via Push-Pull Algorithms. 119-126
Jun Yu, Ling Chen, Gencai Chen: Priority based Overlay Multicast with Filtering Mechanism for Distributed Interactive Applications. 127-134
George V. Popescu, Zhen Liu: Network overlays for efficient control of large scale dynamic groups. 135-142
Azzedine Boukerche, Anis Zarrad, Regina Borges de Araujo: A Smart Gnutella Overlay Formation for Collaborative Virtual Environments over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. 143-156
Session 9: Panel Session
Session 10: Grid and Web Services
Navonil Mustafee, Anders Alstad, Bjorn Larsen, Simon J. E. Taylor, John Ladbrook: Grid-enabling FIRST: Speeding Up Simulation Applications Using WinGrid. 157-164
Andrew Roczniak, Jamil Melhem, Pierre Lévy, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik: Design of Distributed Collaborative Application through Service Aggregation. 165-174
Azzedine Boukerche, YunFeng Gu, Regina Borges de Araujo: Performance Analysis of an Adaptive Dynamic Grid-Based Approach to Data Distribution Management. 175-184
Session 11: Time Management
Aydin Okutanoglu, Muslim Bozyigit: Proximity-Aware Synchronization within Federation Communities. 185-192
Michael Lees, Brian S. Logan, Dan Chen, Ton Oguara, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos: Analysing Probabilistically Constrained Optimism. 201-208
Roland Ewald, Jan Himmelspach, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Dan Chen, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos: A Simulation Approach to Facilitate Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulator Development. 209-218
Session 12: Interoperability and Reusability
Francesco Quaglia: A Middleware Level Active Replication Manager for High Performance HLA-based Simulations on SMP Systems. 219-226
Claude Van Ham, Trevor Pearce: The SIP-RTI: An HLA RTI Implementation Supporting Interoperability. 227-234
J. Mark Pullen, Michael R. Hieb, William P. Sudnikovich, Patrick de Champs: An International Experiment in Command and Control -- Simulation Interoperability Using Web Services. 235-241
Poster Papers

Luciano Bononi, Michele Bracuto, Gabriele D'Angelo, Lorenzo Donatiello: Exploring the Effects of Hyper-Threading on Parallel Simulation. 257-260
Fayez R. El-Far, Mohamad A. Eid, Mauricio Orozco Trujillo, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik: Haptic Applications Meta-Language. 261-264
Damla Turgut, Guoqiang Wang, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu: Speedup-Precision Tradeoffs in Time-Parallel Simulation of Wireless Ad hoc Networks. 265-268



