Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'06)

Part of the 2006 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'06)

Plenary Speaker

DEVS Agents to Support Conformance Testing of

Emerging Defense Information Standards

(VBC North Hall, Salon #5 (Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am)

Bernard P. Zeigler

Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, and

Joint Interoperability Test Command

Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613-7051

Tutorial

Using Fine-grained Agents to Simulate Biological Systems

(VBC North Hall, Salon #6A (Sunday, 1:00pm-5:00pm)

Glen E. Ropella

Tempus Dictum Inc.

gepr@tempusdictum.com

Conference Program

Toolkits and Environments

(Session 1)

VBC East Hall Room #9 (Monday, 1:30pm-3:00pm)

Title:	Agent-based Mission Modeling and Simulation
Authors:	M. Sierhuis, W.J. Clancey, C. Seah, A. Acquisti, D. Bushnell, B. Damer, N. Dorighi, L. Edwards, L. Faithorn, L. Flueckiger, R. van Hoof, D. Lees, A. Nandkumar, C. Neukom, M. Scott, M. Sims, R. Wales, S-Y. Wang, J. Wood, B. Zhang (msierhuis@mail.arc.nasa.gov)

Title:	Architecture of the DIVAs Simulation System
Authors:	R. Z. Mili, E. Oladimeji, R. Steiner (rmili@utdalls.edu)

Title:	ABNNSIM: AN AGENT BASED MODELING APPROACH TO SIMULATING NEURAL NETWORKS
Authors:	Tim Schoenharl and Greg Madey (tim.schoenharl@gmail.com)

Applications - I

(Session 2)

VBC East Hall Room #9 (Monday, 3:30pm-5:00pm)

Title:	Using X-machines as a formal basis for describing agents in agent-based modelling
Authors:	Simon Coakley, Rod Smallwood, Mike Holcombe (S.Coakley@dcs.shef.ac.uk)

Title:	Optimization of Military Distributed Control Systems Using a Mobile Agent-based Approach
Authors:	Craig Eichelkraut and Letha Etzkorn, University of Alabama in Huntsville (ceichelk@cs.uah.edu)

Title:	A Comparative Autonomous Agent Framework
Authors:	James M. Hodgen and James K. Archibald (jka@ee.byu.edu)

Title:	AN AGENT-BASED SIMULATION STUDY OF COOPERATIVE TEAM BEHAVIOR IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WITH RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS
Authors:	Jared Phillips and Levent Yilmaz (yilmaz@auburn.edu)

Plenary

VBC North Hall, Room #5 (Tuesday, 8:30am-10:00am)

Title	DEVS Agents to Support Conformance Testing of Emerging Defense Information Standards
Speaker	Bernard P. Zeigler

Applications - II

(Session 3)

VBC East Hall, Room #5 (Tuesday, 10:30am-12:00pm)

Title:	Autonomous Messenger Based Routing in Disjoint Clusters of Mobile Sensor Networks
Authors:	Nisar Hundewale, Qiong Cheng, Xiaolin Hu, Anu Bourgeois, Alex Zelikovsky (nisar@computer.org)

Title:	SIMULATION MODELING FOR HUMAN COMMUNITY AND AGRICULTURAL LAND USE
Authors:	Gary R. Mayer Hessam S. Sarjoughian Eowyn K. Allen (Gary.Mayer@asu.edu)

Title:	Specification of Dynamic Structure Discrete-event Multiagent Systems
Authors:	R. Duboz, D. Versmisse, G. Quesnel, A. Muzzy, E. Ramat (duboz@ird.fr)

Theory and Methodology

(Session 4)

VBC East Hall, Room #5 (Tuesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm)

Title:	Abstract Process Model for Systems Biology
Authors:	Scott Christley Greg Madey (schristl@nd.edu)

Title:	Validating Perception of Human Behavior Representation (HBR) in Agent-based Simulations
Authors:	Randall B. Garrett (rgarrett@anteon.com)

Title:	Verification and Validation of Agent-based and Equation-based Simulations: A Comparison
Authors:	Ryan C. Kennedy, Xiaorong Xiang, Thomas F. Cosimano, Gregory R. Madey University of Notre Dame Stephen E. Cabaniss University of New Mexico (rkenned1@nd.edu)

Applications - III

(Session 5)

VBC East Hall, Room #5 (Tuesday, 3:30pm-5:00pm)

Title:	A DISTRIBUTED AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODEL FOR LARGE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Authors:	Franco Cicirelli, Angelo Furfaro, Libero Nigro (l.nigro@unical.it)

Title:	Multi-agent based simulation of multi-echelon Supply Chains
Authors:	Srikumar Krishnamoorthy & Sakib A. Mondal (srikumar_k@infosys.com)

Title:	Multi-level Hierarchical Coordination Mechanism for Agent-based Virtual Supply Chain Integration
Authors:	Xiao You; Jianxin(Roger) Jiao (youxiao@pmail.ntu.edu.sg)

Applications - IV

(Session 6)

VBC East Hall, Room #5 (Wednesday, 8:30am-10:00am)

Title:	Simulations of In Vitro Multicellular Tumor Spheroid Growth
Authors:	Jesse Engelberg, Suman Ganguli, and C. Anthony Hunt (hunt@itsa.ucsf.edu)

Title:	Towards Agent-based Simulation in Developmental Biology
Authors:	Scott Christley, Xuelian Zhu, Stuart A. Newman, Mark S. Alber (schristl@nd.edu)

Title:	In Silico Hepatocyte: Agent-Based Modeling of the Biliary Excretion of Drugs
Authors:	Shahab SHEIKH-BAHAEI, Glen E. P. ROPELLA, and C. Anthony HUNT (hunt@itsa.ucsf.edu)

Applications - V

(Session 7)

VBC East Hall, Room #5 (10:30am-12:00pm)

Title:	A TOPOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTURES USING AGENT-BASED MODELING
Authors:	Timothy Schoenharl and Greg Madey (tim.schoenharl@gmail.com)

Title:	Evolving High-Performance Genetic Algorithms for Space Vehicle Design
Authors:	G. Dozier, W. Britt, M. SanSoucie, P. Hull, M. Tinker, R. Unger, S. Bancroft, T. Moeller, D. Rooney (gvdozier@eng.auburn.edu)

Title:	Optimization of Population Density Model of Olive Fly (Bactrocera oleae) by Evolutionary Algorithms
Authors:	Hongfei Gong, Agostinho Rosa, Rui Tavares, Jorge Silva, Vitor Dias (gonghf@laseeb.org)