Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!simulation From: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: SIMULATION DIGEST V19 N9 Message-ID: <26668@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 4 Feb 91 18:23:34 GMT Sender: fishwick@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Lines: 582 Approved: fishwick@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Volume: 19, Issue: 9, Mon Feb 4 13:23:08 EST 1991 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) CALL: Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (2) Object Oriented Simulation (3) WANTED: Simulation Compilers (4) CALL: Workshop on Petri Nets (5) Object Oriented Simulation (6) WANTED: Material for joint ACM/TCSIM Simulation Digest (7) Modelling Distributed Data Base Systems (8) WANTED: Simulation Articles in IEEE Potentials Mag. (9) Workshop on Military Standards for Defense Simulations * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR post to comp.simulation via USENET * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu (128.227.224.1). Login as 'ftp', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. Do 'type binary' before any file xfers. * Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the directory to pub/simdigest/tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 10:21 PST From: Ethan A. Scarl Subject: International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis Cc: ethan@atc.boeing.com Second International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis Milano (Italy), October 14-15-16, 1991 Organized by CISE Tecnologie Innovative and Dipartimento di Informatica of Universita` di Torino Call for Papers This workshop (which follows the successful one held at Stanford University in 1990) encourages intensive and high quality interaction and cooperation among researchers with a diversity of artificial intelligence approaches to diagnosis. Attendance will be limited to fifty participants with presentations spread over three days. Substantial time will be reserved for discussion. To attend, participants should submit papers (maximum 5000 words) to be reviewed by the committee. Submissions are welcomed on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Theory of diagnosis (abductive vs. deductive diagnosis, isolation vs. identification, diagnosis on non-monotonic theories, diagnosis of dynamic systems,...) - Computational issues (controlling the combinatorial explosion, focusing strategies, controlling diagnostic reasoning of complex systems, ...) - Modeling for diagnosis (multiple, approximate, probabilistic and qualitative models, integrating model-based diagnosis with heuristics ....) - Evaluation of theories on practical applications - Inductive approaches to diagnosis (Case-Based Reasoning, Neural Nets, ...) Accepted papers can be revised for inclusion in the workshop working notes. Although work published elsewhere is acceptable, new original work is preferred. Please send five copies of each submission to the chairman at the postal address below. Include several ways of contacting the principal author in addition to a postal address: electronic mail, fax and telephone numbers are preferred, in that order. Please indicate with your submission if you wish to make a presentation or only to attend. Submissions received after 3 May 1991 will not be considered. The decisions of the committee will be mailed by 1 July 1991. Chairman: Luca Console Dipartimento di Informatica - Universit` di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino (Italy) E-mail: console@uduniv.cineca.it Fax: (+39) 11 751603 Tel.: (+39) 11 771 2002 Committee: I. Bratko (U. Ljubljana), P. Dague (IBM), J. de Kleer (Xerox), G. Guida (U. Brescia), K. Eshghi (HP), W. Hamscher (Price Waterhouse), M. Kramer (MIT), W. Nejdl (T.U. Wien), J. Pearl (UCLA), D. Poole (U. British Columbia), O. Raiman (Xerox), J. Reggia (U. Maryland), J. Sticklen (Michigan State U.), P. Struss (Siemens), P. Szolovits (MIT), G. Tornielli (CISE). Organizing Committee: M. Migliavacca (CISE, chairman), M. Gallanti (CISE), A. Giordana (U. Torino), L. Lesmo (U. Torino). Secretarial Support: A. Camnasio, CISE, P.O. Box 12081, 20134 Milano, Tel (+39) 2 21672400, Fax (+39) 2 26920587. This workshop is sponsored by AI*IA and ECCAI. Sponsorship required to AAAI. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 21:36:24 -0500 From: gt4084c@prism.gatech.edu (SRINIVASAN,K) To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Re: SIMULATION DIGEST V19 N4 Newsgroups: comp.simulation In-Reply-To: <25927@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Cc: Is ROSE, the OO simulation tool from Rand Corp. or any other Object-Oriented discrete event simulation tool available in public domain? I will prefer it if it is in Lisp and CLOS, but information about other tools will also be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- SRINIVASAN,K School of Textile Engineering Georgia Tech. uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt4084c ARPA: gt4084c@prism.gatech.edu ------------------------------ To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Simulation and compilation Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 18:40:16 MST From: Sivaram Hi, It is only very recently (Jan 28) that I looked at comp.simulation. However, I am working on a major simulation effort. I am interested in simulators for computer modelling. I am primarily interested in those that had a compilation approach rather than a interpretation strategy. Would you have any info? Source code would make me happy too. [[EDITOR: You may wish to look in our archives - specifically SMPL and SimPack both offer a natural compiler environment since the C language is used in both. See the instructions at the beginning of this digest to see how to FTP simulation software. You should also consider Herb Schwetman's CSIM language which is available directly from Herb: (hds@mcc.com) -PAF]] Thanks. Sivaram sivaram@hplabs.hp.com ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@munnari.oz@munnari.OZ.AU Path: trlluna!evunka.trl.oz.au!jb From: jb%evunka@trl.oz.au (Jonathan Billington) Newsgroups: melb.seminars,news.announce.conferences,comp.org.ieee,comp.parallel,comp.simulation,comp.software-eng Subject: PNPM91: Call for Papers Date: 24 Jan 91 03:57:57 GMT Sender: news@trlluna.trl.OZ.AU Organization: Telecom Research Labs., Melbourne, Australia Fourth International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models PNPM91 CALL FOR PAPERS Melbourne, Australia Tutorial Day: 2 December 1991 Conference: 3-5 December 1991 Sponsor: Telecom Australia Co-operation requested with Association for Computing Machinery IEEE Computer Society IEEE Victorian Section IFIP General Chairman: Fred Symons (Monash University, Melbourne) International Committee Chairman: Tharam Dillon (LaTrobe University, Melbourne) Programme Co-Chairmen: Jonathan Billington (TRL, Melbourne) Bill Henderson (Adelaide University) Organising Committee Chairman: Jim Park (TRL, Melbourne) International Committee G. Balbo (Italy) S. Natkin (France) H. Beilner (Germany) L. Ojala (Finland) K. Jensen (Denmark) K. Onaga (Japan) M. Kim (Korea) M. Silva (Spain) W. Lu (China) D. Simpson (UK) J.F. Meyer (USA) K. Trivedi (USA) Programme Committee M. Ajmone Marsan M.K. Molloy G. Chiola M. Murata G. Ciardo T. Murata J.M. Colom S. Nishio J. Dugan W.H. Sanders G. Florin H. Takagi P. Haas P. Taylor S. Haddad M. Vernon G. Juanole W.M. Zuberek J. Magott Scope of Workshop The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of original contributions in the area of Petri net based models and tools for performance evaluation and systems design. During the Workshop, facilities will be provided for the exhibition of computer-aided Petri net tools. The day before the workshop, Monday 2 December 1991, a day of tutorials will be presented. The language of the workshop is English. Topics * New developments in timed and stochastic Petri nets, including high-level stochastic nets * Analysis methods for timed and stochastic nets * Advances in incorporating time into nets, while retaining the results of General Net Theory * Relationships with other formal systems where timed extensions are being developed (e.g. process algebras) * Application of nets to the design and performance evaluation of systems including computing, communications, information, office automation and flexible manufacturing systems * Computer aids for the analysis of Petri net models * Educational issues, including the role of Petri nets in teaching concurrency Information for Authors Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit five copies of a full paper (in English and no longer than 20 A4 pages) to Jonathan Billington by 1 May 1991. The name and address of the author(s), and a short abstract are to be included on a separate title page. Descriptions of work in progress, particularly related to industrial applications (2 to 4 pages), and indications of interest in exhibiting a tool (1 page description) are also invited. Address for Correspondence -------------------------- Jonathan Billington Telecom Australia Research Laboratories P.O. Box 249 Clayton, Vic., 3168 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61-3-5416416 Fax: +61-3-5442362 Email: j.billington@trl.oz.au Important Dates --------------- 1 May 1991: Submission Deadline 1 August 1991: Notification of acceptance/rejection 5 September 1991: Final version due Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Tutorial Day On Monday 2 December 1991 a set of tutorials will be presented. The purpose of the tutorials will be to provide introductory information on Petri net fundamentals and their extensions for performance evaluation. The tutorials will be presented by leading international experts. The tutorials will provide an ideal opportunity for students, academics and industry personnel interested in learning the basics of new techniques that will be of increasing importance in the design of concurrent, distributed or real time systems. Tools Exhibition It is intended to provide facilities for the demonstration of computer aided tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of Petri net based models. Please send details of computing requirements to Jonathan Billington. (See REPLY FORM below) REPLY FORM PNPM91, Melbourne Australia Please complete and return by email, fax or post to: Jonathan Billington Telecom Australia Research Laboratories P.O. Box 249 Clayton, Vic., 3168 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61-3-5416416 Fax: +61-3-5442362 Email: j.billington@trl.oz.au Name: Title: Address: Postcode: Telephone: Fax: Email: __ I intend to attend PNPM91 __ I wish to attend the Tutorial Day __ I shall submit a paper Title: Co-authors: __ I intend to exhibit a tool Name of Tool: Machine: Operating System: Memory required: __ Please send me the next circular -----------------------END OF CALL-------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Return-Path: Posted-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 16:04:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 16:04:04 -0500 From: watro@linus.mitre.org To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Cc: watro@linus.mitre.org, jil@linus.mitre.org, ehb@linus.mitre.org, vtg@mitre.org Subject: query on object-oriented simulation I'm in a group trying to do a comparison of object-oriented simulation tools. So far we have looked at Sim++, ModsimII, SESWorkbench, Smalltalk and a home-built tool based on C++. Does anyone have suggestions for other tools to look at? We are interested in judging the performance of the tools. Are there any suggestions for benchmarks for object-oriented simulation tools? Finally, there is the question of which features are the most important. This leads to endless discussion. We have some preference for multiple inheritance (which leaves out Smalltalk) and dynamic creation of simulation objects (which leaves out Sim++). SESWorkbench provides a very general approach to "transactions" (sequences of events) but is not as object-oriented as the others. Modsim II is an interesting mix of features and frustrations. Any general comments or references would be appreciated. We hope to post a summary of our work in the near future. Usual disclaimers apply. --Ron Watro Dr. Ronald J. Watro The MITRE Corporation, MS A129, Burlington RD, Bedford, MA 01730 USA 617-271-7648 InterNet: watro@mitre.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 17:31:34 -0600 From: dana@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Dana Wyatt) To: simulation@ufl.edu Subject: The next Simulation Digest [[EDITOR: Please note that the "Simulation Digest" to which Dana refers is the published hard copy Digest co-published by both the IEEE-CS TCSIM and ACM SIGSIM. -PAF]] As we prepare to go to press with the next issue of Simulation Digest, I would like to make a last minute solicitation for material. We accept letters, short technical notes, contributed papers, cartoons :), and anything else appropriate. If you wish to discuss a potential contribution, please contact me at: Dana Wyatt University of North Texas Computer Science Department Denton, Texas 76203 817/ 565-2767 (office) 817/ 565-2820 (my office) 817/ 232-8726 (home) dana@dept.csci.unt.edu (e-mail) Deadline for receipt of materials is Friday, February 8. I realize that this is probably too short of notice for contributed papers, but "what the heck", thought I'd solicit your input! Dana Wyatt ACM Editor, Simulation Digest ------------------------------ Return-Path: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 13:43:08 EST From: samuels@starbase.MITRE.ORG (Mike Samuels) To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: DBMS modeling Hello, out there! Does anyone have good references on problems (and solutions!) for modeling centralized and/or distributed database management systems? I have an old article by McBride, Tonik, and Finnin ("System considerations for predicting mass storage subsystem behavior"), but everything else I've seen is very specific to a particular application. Also, are there any tools tailored for the analysis of distributed DBMSs? I guess what I'm looking for is something like NETWORK II.5 or (preferably) OPNET, only tailored to DBMS problems rather than protocols. I will post responses to comp.simulation if there's interest. Thanks. Michael Samuels The MITRE Corporation samuels@mitre.org Mailstop W448 (703) 883-7828 7525 Colshire Drive FAX: (703) 883-6435 McLean, VA 22102 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 91 14:49:30 CST From: "George Zobrist, Professor" Subject: solicitation for manuscripts-ieee potentials magazine To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu X-Acknowledge-To: ********************************************************************* SOLICITATION OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR IEEE POTENTIALS MAGAZINE THE IEEE POTENTIALS MAGAZINE (A QUARTERLY) IS SOLICITING MANUSCRIPTS FOR A PLANNED SPECIAL ISSUE ON ASPECTS OF SIMULATION. THE IEEE POTENTIALS MAGAZINE GOES TO ALL STUDENT MEMBERS OF THE IEEE (US AND CANADA), PRESENTLY ABOUT 50, 000. THE LEVEL OF THE ARTICLE IS ADDRESSED TO THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AND HAS SEVERAL OBJECTIVES : INTERESTING THE STUDENT IN A TOPIC FOR FURTHER STUDY, EXPLAINING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN AN AREA, A FORUM FOR TECHNICAL IDEAS, ARTICLES OF INTEREST TECHNICALLY. IT SHOULD BE STRESSED THAT THE ARTICLE SHOULD NOT TRY TO MYSTIFY THE STUDENT BUT TO ENABLE THE STUDENT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TECHNICAL MATERIAL THAT HE/SHE MAY/MAY NOT BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH IN THEIR FORMAL COURSE WORK. SIMULATION TOPICS MIGHT BE: VARIOUS SPEED UP ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING, DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION PROCESS, DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION, APPLICATIONS, NEED FOR SIMULATION, ETC LENGTH OF ARTICLE CAN BE NO MORE THAN 10 MANUSCRIPT PAGES (8 1/2 11) REDUCED BY NUMBER OF FIGURES- SHORTER PAPERS ALSO ACCEPTABLE THE MANUSCRIPTS ARE REVIEWED BY: STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESEARCHERS IN AREA AND THEN A DECISION IS MADE AS TO WHETHER TO PUBLISH OR NOT. IF INTERESTED, CONTACT: DR. GEORGE W. ZOBRIST ASSOCIATE EDITOR, IEEE POTENTIALS MAGAZINE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ROLLA ROLLA, MO 65401 PHONE: 314-341-4836 EMAIL: C2816@UMRVMB.UMR.EDU (INTERNET) OR C2816@UMRVMB.BITNET DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF MANUSCRIPT SUMMER OF 1991 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Feb 91 09:18:15 EDT From: BRUCE MCDONALD Subject: CBD Announcement - Workshop To: Paul Fishwick , Col Jim Shiflett CBD Announcement Project Manager Training Devices, Orlando, FL 32826 A--WORKSHOPS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY STANDARDS FOR DEFENSE SIMULATIONS. A NETWORKING WORKSHOP will be held in Orlando, FL on 13-15 March 1991. This is the fourth workshop for the continued development of a Draft Military Standard entitled Protocol Data Units for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS). The standard describes the form and types of messages to be exchanged between entities in a real-time distributed interactive simulation. The University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) began the work in August 1989 as the agent for the Department of the Army Project Manager for Training Devices. Using SIMNET as a baseline and considering recommendations made in meetings and in over seventy position papers, IST has developed this first draft document. It represents the work of over 300 scientists, engineers, and technicians from industry, academia and government. An electronic copy of these documents has been placed on the IST bulletin board system. Please call (407) 658-5077 to access these documents. If you need assistance with bulletin board procedures, call Mr. Bob Glasgow (407) 658-5510. To register for the workshop or to purchase printed copies of the draft standard, rationale document, and minutes from the first three workshops, please contact Mr. Vince Amico, UCF College of Extended Studies, 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 200, Orlando, FL 32816-0177, (407)249-6102, FAX (407)249-6113. The workshop will be held at the Orlando Marriott International Drive in Orlando, FL. Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel. Call (407)351-2420 and specify the IST/DARPA/PMTRADE meeting. This will be the last workshop before IST submits the final version of the Draft Military Standard. Based on comments at the workshop, we plan to modify the draft and then publish version 1.0 in June 1991. Eventually, this Military Standard will become a DoD Standard. Consequently, this workshop is very important to defense industries involved with simulation technologies and government agencies preparing requirements for acquisitions such as the Close Combat Tactics Trainer, Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer and Advanced Distributed Simulation Technology. The workshop will allow time for individuals to present their recommendations regarding the standard. Topics of particular interest are recommended changes to the Draft Standard, as well as recommended Performance Measures, Communications Architecture, Communications Services, Simulation Management, COMM/SIGINT/EW, and correlations between Terrain, Ocean and Atmosphere models. These presentations will be allocated 15 minutes for remarks and five minutes for questions. Individuals wishing to speak must submit position papers to Dr. Bruce McDonald (407)658-5046 on the proposed topics no later than 1 March 1991. The Interoperability Standard Steering Committee will select speakers based on criticality of the issues addressed. ------------------------------ END OF SIMULATION DIGEST ************************