The 15 papers from the October 1999 workshop are arranged in five distributed virtual environments, applications, communication issues, language and modeling issues, and architectures. Specific papers topics include analysis of dead reckoning procedures by using hybrid automata, object and ownership management in air traffic control simulations, performance analysis of packet bundling techniques in DIS, HLA support in a discrete event simulation language, and simulation of multimedia systems based on actors and QoS synchronizers. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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