July 16-18, 2007, San Diego, California (USA)

Program Committee

General Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA

Program Chairs

Jose Marzo
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, Canada

Helena Szczerbicka
Univ. of Hannover, Germany

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair

S. Dharmaraja
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Awards Chair

Franco Davoli
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Publication Chair

Pawel Gburzynski
Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Publicity Committee

Guoping Zeng
(Co-Chair)

Essia H. Elhafsi
Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Co-Chair)

Abdelmajid Khelil
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany

Antonio Pescapé
Univ. of Napoli "Federico II", Italy

Weiguang Shi
Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Hua Zhu
San Diego Research Center, CA, USA

Local Arrangement Chair

Richard MacDonald
RMC, USA

Webmasters

Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Michael J. Chinni
US Army TACOM-ARDEC

Sponsors

Sponsor The Society for Modeling and Simulation International www.scs.org

Technical Co‑Sponsor IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society www.ieeesmc.org

Technical Co‑Sponsor IEEE Communications Society www.comsoc.org

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

• Internet Technology
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • DiffServ/IntServ
  • MPLS/GMPLS
  • TCP
  • World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
• Networking Techniques
  • Unicast and Multicast Routing
  • Congestion and Admission Control
  • Switching Techniques
  • Tele-traffic
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Management and Control
  • Network Capacity Planning
  • Network Architecture Evaluation
  • Service and QoS Pricing
  • Security and Authentication

• Broadband Networks
  • High-Speed Networking
  • Optical Networks
• Wireless Systems and Networks
  • Satellite Systems
  • UMTS
  • Mobile Networks/Computing
  • Ad-hoc Networks
  • Sensor Networks
• Multimedia Communications and Applications

Computer Systems

• Distributed Architecture
  • Client/Server
  • Distributed Systems and Agents
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Massively Parallel Systems
  • Cluster Computing
  • Grid Computing
  • Interconnection Networks
• Computer Architectures
  • Microprocessors/Microcomputers
  • Memory Systems
  • High Performance I/O
  • Real-time Systems
  • Scheduling Schemes

• Software
  • Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
  • Parallel Algorithms and Languages
• Electronic Commerce
• Hardware and Software Monitors
• High-Performance Computing
• Information Assurance
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Scientific Computing Algorithms
• Workload and Traffic Characterization

Tools, Methodologies and Applications

• Parallel and Distributed Simulation
• Verification and Validation
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
• Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
• Queuing Systems and Networks

• Scalability Studies
• Integrated Modeling and Measurement
• On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
• Process Algebra-Based Models
• Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
• Case Studies

Accomodation

SPECTS attendees can get the discounted rate ($174 + tax) using the SummerSim'07 Group internet code: scsscsa

Use the San Diego Mission Valley Marriott online reservation form.

Registration

Registration forms for authors and non-authors are available at the SCS website.

Formatting instructions, examples, suggestions for manuscript preparation and copyright transfer forms are included in the Formatting Kit.

Please use the LaTeX or MS Word templates.

Deadlines

• Special sessions proposals: January 7, 2007
• Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): April 20, 2007
• Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2007
• Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: June 22, 2007

Technical Program Committee

• Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed Univ., UAE
• Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Carlos Belo, Instituto de Telecommunicacoes-IST, Portugal
• Noureddine Boudriga, Univ. of Tunis, Tunisia
• Maria C. Calzarossa, Univ. of Pavia, Italy
• Fernando Cerdan, Technical Univ. of Cartagena, Spain
• Tomaso de Cola, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
• Floriano De Rango, D.E. I.S. Dept., Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Univ. of the Armed Forces, Germany
• Fethi Filali, Eurecom, France
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ., USA
• John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK
• Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France
• Sebastia Galmes, Univ. de les llles Balears, Spain
• Daniel Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
• Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
• Pawel Gburzynski, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
• Sami Habib, Kuwait Univ., Kuwait
• Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
• Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Xiaoyan Hong, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Carlos Juiz, Universtat de les llles Balears, Spain
• Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessalonici, Greece
• Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
• Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA
• Kevin Kwait, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
• Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
• S. Kami Makki, Univ. of Toledo, USA

• Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical Univ., Poland
• Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland
• Petteri Mannersalo, Univ. of Vaasa, Finland
• Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
• Jelena Misic, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
• Vojislav Misic, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
• Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
• Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Georgios I Papadimitriou, Aristotle Univ., Greece
• Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Krzysztof Pawlikowski, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Gregory D Peterson, Univ. of Tennessee, USA
• Stephen Pink, Lancaster Univ., UK
• Michal Pioro, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
• Desanka Polajnar, Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
• Jernej Polajnar, Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
• Ramon Puigjaner, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Vicente Santonja, Technical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
• Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
• Tatsuya Suda, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
• Phuoc Tran-Gia, Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany
• Pere Vila, Univ. of Girona, Spain
• Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
• Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg Univ., Germany
• Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA
• Michele Zorzi, University Di Ferrara, Italy

Last updated on September 27th, 2007