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Message from the program co-chairs

We welcome you to the 11 th Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications. Each year sees an increase in the quality of papers submitted to DS-RT, reflecting the growth of distributed simulation, especially in emerging areas such as collaborative virtual environments. DS-RT provides an excellent forum in which academic researchers and practitioners in industry and defense can meet to discuss issues and challenges related to this interdisciplinary research area. We hope that we have arranged an even more exciting program this year, with two keynote speakers who are prominent in their research areas. The symposium papers fit within the general themes of large-scale simulation, collaborative virtual environments, and real-time applications. At a lower level of abstraction, the sessions comprise papers concerning applications and technologies of Grid and Web Services, Interest Management and Group Communication, Time Management, Peer-to-Peer networks, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Steering and Scenario Generation, Capture and Backup, and Interoperability and Reusability. This year we will again award a Best Paper at the symposium. After the reviews of all papers were received, a subcommittee was formed and the following papers were nominated: