[Todos] Charla de Gabriel Wainer en FCEyN - UBA - sobre simulación

[Esteban Mocskos]

Están todos invitados a la charla que dará el día miércoles 11 en el
aula 2 del pabellón 1 a  las 17hs.

La charla es abierta a toda la comunidad de exactas, no sólo a computación.

*Título:*
Todo lo que Ud. Siempre quiso saber sobre modelos y
simulación… pero tuvo miedo de preguntar

*Abstract:*

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) techniques have been created in the early
ages of computing in order to better analyze the behavior of complex
physical systems. M&S received a tremendous impulse thanks to the
advances in computer technology. Unfortunately, in most cases the
creation of simulation models is faced with ad-hoc techniques, ignoring
previous recommendations that were successful in the world of software
systems development.


M&S methodologies intended to improve the development task of very
complex simulation systems. Some of these techniques proved to be
successful in providing a sound base for the development of
discrete-event simulation models, improving the ease of model definition
and enhancing the application development tasks; reducing costs and
favoring reuse.


The DEVS formalism is one of these techniques, which proved to be
successful in providing means for modeling while reducing development
complexity and costs. DEVS model development is based on a sound
theoretical framework. The independence of M&S tasks made possible to
run DEVS models on different environments (personal computers, parallel
computers, real-time equipment, distributed simulators) and middleware.


We will present a historical perspective of discrete-event M&S
methodologies, showing different modeling techniques. We will introduce
DEVS origins and general ideas, and compare it with some of these
techniques. We will then show the current status of DEVS M&S, and we
will discuss a technological perspective to solve current M&S problems
(including real-time simulation, interoperability and model-centered
development techniques). We will show some examples of the current use
of DEVS, including applications in different fields.


We will finally show current open topics in the area, which include
advanced methods for centralized, parallel or distributed simulation,
the need of real-time modeling techniques, and our view in these fields.

*Quién es Gabriel ?
*

/GABRIEL A. WAINER,//SMSCS, SMIEEE, received the M.Sc. (1993) at the
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Ph.D. (1998, with highest
honors) at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Université
d’Aix-Marseille III, France (in cotutell). After being Assistant
Professor at the Computer Science Department of UBA, in July 2000 he
joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton
University (Ottawa, ON, Canada), where he is now Full Professor. He has
held visiting positions at the University of Arizona; LSIS (CNRS),
Université Paul Cézanne, University of Nice, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
(France); UCM, UPC (Spain) and others. He is the author of three books
and over 270 research articles; he edited four other books, and helped
organizing over 120 conferences, including being one of the founders of
the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation, SIMUTools and
SimAUD. //He was PI of different research projects (funded by NSERC,
CFI, GRAND, MITACS, Autodesk Research, IBM, Intel, INRIA, CANARIE,
Precarn, Usenix, CONICET, ANPCYT). Prof. Wainer is the Vice-President
Conferences, and was a Vice-President Publications and a member of the
Board of Directors of the SCS. Prof. Wainer is the Special Issues Editor
of SIMULATION, member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Computing in
Science and Engineering, Wireless Networks (Elsevier), Journal of
Defense Modeling and Simulation (SCS), and International Journal of
Simulation and Process Modelling (Inderscience). He is the head of the
Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab, located at Carleton University's
Centre for advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim). He has been
the recipient of various awards, including the IBM Eclipse Innovation
Award, SCS Leadership Award, and various Best Paper awards. He has been
awarded Carleton University's Research Achievement Award (2005-2006),
the First Bernard P. Zeigler DEVS Modeling and Simulation Award, and the
SCS Outstanding Professional Award (2011), Carleton University’s
Mentorship Award (2013) and the SCS Distinguished Professional Award
(2013). His current research interests are related with modelling
methodologies and tools, parallel/distributed simulation and real-time
systems//. His e-mail and web addresses are <//gwainer en sce.carleton.ca/
<mailto:gwainer en sce.carleton.ca>/> and
<//www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/
<http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer>/>./