simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (10/03/88)
Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Mon Oct 3 11:37:43 EDT 1988 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Call for Papers: Summer Computer Simulation Conf. (2) A Selection of PhD Programs in Simulation (3) Prelim. Program: Asilomar Conference (4) Request for Network Simulator Info. (5) Knowledge-Based Simulation Languages Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida Send topical mail to: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 88 09:53:19 CDT From: Kevin Lehnert <lehnert@valhalla.csc.ti.com> To: ai-sim@valhalla.csc.ti.com Subject: Call for Papers Dear Colleagues: As fellow attendees of the AI and Simulation Workshop last August in St. Paul, the following call for papers may interest you. I will be helping chair the group on knowledge-based simulation. If you would like to submit an abstract for this conference, author notification will be in mid-January and manuscripts of accepted papers will be due in mid-March. This gives you plenty of time to flesh out submitted abstracts. There will be three sessions, one on KB Sim technologies, KB Sim theory, and KB Sim applications and case studies. If you would be so kind as to forward this call to interested parties in your facility, I would be very grateful. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Kevin Lehnert lehnert@valhalla.csc.ti.com Artificial Intelligence Applications Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc Dallas, Texas 214-995-0774 **************************************************************** Call For Papers Summer Computer Simulation Conference Austin, Texas July 24-27, 1989 The 1989 Summer Computer Simulation Conference to be held in Austin, Texas, July 24-27 is looking for abstracts in the area of Knowledge Based Systems and Simulation. Topics we are looking for include the areas of: o Knowledge Based Simulation Theory o Intelligent Simulation Systems o Knowledge Based Simulation Tools o Knowledge Based Systems using Simulation o Knowledge Representation for Simulation o Intelligent Simulation Control Architectures o Applications of Simulation Techniques to Knowledge Based Systems o Interactions Between Conventional Simulations and Knowledge Based Systems Please send your one page abstract to: Society for Computer Simulation P.O. Box 17900 4838 Ronson Court, Suite 'L' San Diego, CA 92117-7900 ATTN: Group XIII. Please include your name, organization, address and netaddress (if available). Deadline for abstracts is November 1, 1988. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 13:08:56 IDT To: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU From: ORNA%ISRAEARN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Comment: CROSSNET mail via SMTP@CUNYVM Subject: PhD programs in Simulation Universities with people in Simulations: U of Texas at Austin (Chnady and Misra) UCLA (David Jefferson) U of Calgary (Alberta Canada) (Brian Unger, John Cleary) U of Waterloo (Wong) U of Utah (Ricahrd Fujimoto) U of Wisconsin at Madison (Miron Livny) Those are the places that occur to me at first thought as offering PhD programs with faculty who perform reserach is simulation. I am sure that at MIT CSL people are doing simulation but I do not know of a given individual interested in simulation for research There are also European Institutions, if you are interested - let me know. Orna ------------------------------ Thu, 29 Sep 88 21:50:18 PDT Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 21:50:15 PDT From: "Professor Ralph C. Huntsinger" <DRRALPH%CALSTATE.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Subject: To: simulation%ufl.edu@RELAY.CS.NET --- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM --- -- Western Simulation Council -- The Society for Computer Simulation International -- Asilomar Conference -- (at Asilomar State Beach on the Monterey Pennisula) Pacific Grove, California 9:00am - 5:00pm Thursday and Friday, October 13 and 14, 1988 Registration 3:00pm - 5:30pm Wednesday October 12 Dinner for Registrants: 6:00pm Wednesday October 12 Simulation Hardware and Software presentations by Developers, Manufacturers and Users will be provided in an informal discussion-oriented format reminiscent of the Councils past "Scottsdale" conferences. General Conference Chairman Mr. Edward (Ted) Lambert (805)373-2622 or (805)482-5610 Program Chairman Professor Ralph C. Huntsinger California State University, Chico (916)895-6442 or (916)895-5740 PLENARY PRESENTATION ON TRENDS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEURAL NETWORKS Dr. George Bekey Professor of Computer Science Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California SIMULATION HARDWARE Session Organizer: Dr. Walter Karplus Professor of Computer Science University of California at Los Angeles Hardware Session presenters: (1) J. Paul Landauer Electronic Associates, Inc. West Long Branch, N.J. (2) Dr. William Kushner Intel Scientific Computers Beaverton, Oregon (3) Richard C. Borgioli CSP, Inc. Newbury Park, California (4) Charles Moores Applied Dynamics International Ann Arbor, Michigan (5) Dr.Martin Schrage Xanalog Corporation Woburn, Mass. (6) David Fram BBN, Inc. San Francisco, California (7) Robert Woolbert Encore Computers Newport Beach, California SIMULATION SOFTWARE Session Organizer: Dr. Ragnar Nilsen Simulation Services, Inc. Software Session Presentations: (1) CACI Simscript II.5 and Graphics Professor Keevom Kang U.S.Naval Postgraduate University Monterey, California (2) Current Enhancements to CSSL-IV Dr. R. Nilsen Simulation Services, Inc. (3) Submodels in Continuous Systems Simulation Languages The MUSS (ModUlar Simulation System) simulation software package Dr. Antoni Guasch Institute of Cybernetics Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain (4) The (CAMP) Computer Aided Modeling Program for High Level, Interactive Bond Graph Modeling and Analysis Dr. Jose J. Granda Professor of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Sacramento (5) An Overview of Matrix X Eric Cigan Integrated Systems Inc. Santa Clara, California SIMULATION APPLICATIONS Session Organizer: Dr. Roy E. Crosbie Professor of Computer Engineering California State University, Chico Applications Session Presentations: (1) Simulation Software for Engineering Applications Edward Rabin The Bechtel Corporation San Francisco, California (2) DSL/VS (Dynamic Simulation Language) Applications in Control Systems Design Martin Dost IBM Corporation General Products Division San Jose, California (3) Engineering Applications using the ADSIM simulation language Dr. Larry Michaels Applied Dynamics International Princeton, N.J. PANEL DISCUSSION "What's Ahead in Simulation" Organized by SCS International Panel Moderator: Dr. James May Vice Provost and Dean of Information Resources Professor of Computer Science California State University, Chico TUTORIAL SESSION Expert Systems, A Tutorial Introduction with a discussion on their use in Intelligent Simulation Environments. Dr. Ralph C. Huntsinger Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Computer Science California State University, Chico ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@rutgers.edu Path: okstate!rjs From: Roland Stolfa <rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.os.research,comp.simulation,comp.sources.wanted,sci.electronics Subject: Network Simulator Info. Req. Date: 2 Oct 88 20:14:16 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. Hello, I am looking for any and all references to the following areas. Please e-mail the responses to me directly, I _WILL_ post a summary in two (2) weeks. 1. Network simultors (comercial or PD). 2. Line noise simulation (serial, broadband, ANYTHING) 3. Using simulators in the classroom. Thanks in advance Roland J. Stolfa Department of Computing and Information Sciences Oklahoma State University UUCP: {cbosgd, ea, ihnp4, isucs1, mcvax, pesnta, uokvax}!okstate!rjs Internet: rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu Disclaimer: You have lost your MIND if you think ANYBODY speaks for this place! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 88 11:28:15 EDT From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu> To: simulation@ufl.edu [[editor's note: this article was posted in comp.ai -paf]] >From uflorida!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!randvax!leverich Mon Oct 3 11:19:29 EDT 1988 Article 1768 of comp.ai: Path: uflorida!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!randvax!leverich >From: leverich@randvax.UUCP (Brian Leverich) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Grand Challenges: Expert System Shells replace COBOL Summary: Knowledge Based Simulation replaces SIMSCRIPT Date: 2 Oct 88 16:58:31 GMT References: <123@feedme.UUCP> <17736@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1717@randvax.UUCP> <1680@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: leverich@rand-unix.UUCP (Brian Leverich) Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA In article <1680@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) writes: > >I vote ES shells the achievement of the decade for: > > avoiding CS snobbery and turning out restricted natural > language end-user programming languages which the untrained > user will pick up and write applications in. Shells may be > the first step in bringing some form of programming to the > masses (but remember that adventure games got there first > with restricted natural language). > Yup. Now I have a nomination for the nth (probably not second or third, but up there...) most significant _real_ contribution of AI, again in the vein of providing new programming tools: knowledge-based simulation languages. Large simulations have traditionally been exceedingly costly to design, debug, and extend, largely because the Fortran or even Simscript code of the models isn't the least bit isomorphic with the physical system being modeled. Modeling trucks moving brainlessly around on a road network was hard; modeling a multi-mode transportation system where management was using heuristics to pursue cost-minimization and other goals was essentially impossible. Enters the object-oriented message-passing paradigm. All of the sudden individual trucks become "trucks" in the model (rather than rows in a matrix), managers become "managers", and "managers" and "trucks" interact by exchanging English-like messages rather than by changing entries in some arbitrary set of matrices. Design, debug, and extension is much easier. No hype - I've used ROSS (RAND's KBSim tool) to build some 4000+ lines of code simulations. A good bet is that this object-oriented message-passing stuff is going to have a considerable impact upon the simulation community. -- "Simulate it in ROSS" Brian Leverich | U.S. Snail: 1700 Main St. ARPAnet: leverich@rand-unix | Santa Monica, CA 90406 UUCP/usenet: decvax!randvax!leverich | Ma Bell: (213) 393-0411 X7769 ------------------------------ +--------------------------+ | END OF SIMULATION DIGEST | +--------------------------+