PADABS 2014 - Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations PADABS 2014

Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research and management in many fields such as ecology, economics, sociology, etc.. In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a key instrument to the generative approach, essential for understanding complex social phenomena. But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of mobile robots and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based Simulation Models is recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms that can help the development and testing of new models in each specific field by providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed up and make massive simulations. The key objective of this workshop is to bring together the researchers that are interested in getting more performances from their simulations, by using synchronized , many-core simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI) and loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this field. They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to Distributed simulation environments. In the first category, you can find FLAME GPU, that allows also non GPU specialists to harness the GPUs performance for real time simulation and visualization. For tightly-coupled, large computing clusters and supercomputers a very popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing (REPAST-HPC), a C++-based modeling system. On the distributed side, recent work on Distributed Mason, allows non specialists to use heterogeneous hardware and software in local area networks for enlarging the size and speeding up the simulation of complex Agent-Based models.
The Program Committee includes, also, the main developers of the three leading platform in each of the field (REPAST-HPC, FLAME and Mason/D-Mason) besides experts in the field of Agent-Based Simulations (ABSs).
The Workshop is a half-a-day workshop (either on 25th or 26th of August, 2014) and will allow presentation of regular papers (25 + 5 minutes) and short papers (12+3 minutes). The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format, 5 pages for short papers) and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 2 reviewers of the Program Committee.
Acceptance as regular/short papers will depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to the Workshop theme.
Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops.