2021-06-22: ACM SIGSIM PADS Trip Report
The 2021 ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulations (PADS) was held at Old Dominion University Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) on May 31-June 2, 2021, as a virtual conference. The PADS conference series started in 1986, as Parallel and Distributed Simulation methods and applications became SIGSIM PADS, the flagship conference of ACM SIGSIM . 2021 ACM SIGSIM PADS is the 9th SIGSIM PADS and the 35th conference overall. The conference series captures the new advancements in modeling and simulations, and it was the first time I attended a conference in the simulation. The conference consists of 5 sessions for presenting accepted papers, two keynote sessions, two editorial sessions, and a Ph.D. colloquium. Day 1 (May 31) Day 1 started with the session from general chair Dr. Saikou Diallo , general co-chair Dr. Andreas Tolk , and Program chair Dr. Philippe Giabbanelli where they reviewed the history of the conference series and frontiers for t...