Editorial for Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

Modeling and simulation has witnessed a surge of advanced methods and tools to improve the tasks of the simulation users, ranging from advanced methodologies, software development methods, middleware, visualization tools, analytics, Cloud computing, standards, and others. Within this context, the new ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS) has allowed sharing and discussing new methods, tools and applications in this field. The new SIGSIM-PADS conference was rebuilt upon 26 years of history and the reputation for high-quality papers of the traditional PADS Workshop (Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation). The objective of this new conference is now the intersection of computer science and modeling and simulation. The inaugural conference attracted 75 full paper submissions from 27 countries around the world. From the 29 papers accepted, the top 10 were invited to submit extended versions. There was also a call for papers for articles related to this field of research. The numerous articles (some of which were new, and others were extended versions of the original SIGSIM-PADS articles) were peer reviewed again by at least three reviewers, making the quality of the final submissions very high. The topics were varied, ranging from automation in parallel simulation in multicore architectures, generation of simulation models, management of activity in simulation, heterogeneous parallel simulation, and theory and emergent behavior. We also received articles on agent-based simulation, simulation with hardware-in-the-loop, and varied applications including networking and communications, logistics, and biology. The articles presented in this issue can be categorized, based on their research area, into the following areas: modeling methodologies, parallel and distributed simulation, and network simulation and emulation.