CLOUDES

Lead Investigator

• Jose Padilla
• Saikou Diallo

Project Members

• Anthony Barraco (Lead developer)
• Hamdi Kavak (Collaborator 2013-2020)
• Christopher Lynch (Collaborator faculty)
• Ross Gore (Collaborator faculty)
• many others…. (see paper co-authors)

Project Dates

2013-current

Summary

CLOUDES is a cloud-based discrete-event simulation development tool solely operating on browser in the front-end and cloud-based infrastructure at the back-end. I designed the initial software architecture in 2013. A master’s student from Computer Science Department at ODU helped build the initial interface. Later, Anthony M. Barraco took the lead on the development and made significant improvements. This project is active and led by Dr. Jose J Padilla. I am still making contributions to different parts of the project. You can test the tool at cloudes.me.

Publications & Presentations

• Modeling the Modeler: an Empirical Study on How Modelers Learn to Create Simulations
  H. Kavak, J.J. Padilla, S.Y. Diallo and A. Barraco
  The 2020 Spring Simulation Conference, Virtual, May 18-21, 2020
  [Paper] [BibTex]
• Storytelling and Simulation Creation
  J.J. Padilla, C.J. Lynch, H. Kavak, Shawn Evett, Devon Nelson, Calvin Carson, and Joshua del Villar
  Winter Simulation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 3-6, 2017, pp. 4288-4299
  [Paper] [BibTex]
• Incorporating Sound Cues in Simulations
  J. Deuro, C.J. Lynch, H. Kavak, and J.J. Padilla
  Winter Simulation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 3-6, 2017, pp. 4209-4219
  [Paper] [BibTex]
• Using Simulation Games for Teaching and Learning Discrete-Event Simulation
  J.J. Padilla, C.J. Lynch, H. Kavak, S.Y. Diallo, R.J. Gore, A. Barraco, and B. Jenkins
  2016 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, VA, December, 11-14, 2016, pp. 3375-3384
  [Paper] [BibTex]
• Modeling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) for Education: Learning STEM Concepts through Simulation Use and Building
  J.J. Padilla, E. Romero-Hall, S.Y. Diallo, A. Barraco, H. Kavak, C.J. Lynch, R.J. Gore, and M. Sheth-Chandra
  2015 Summer Simulation Conference, Chicago, IL, July, 26-29, 2015
  [Paper] [BibTex]
• Cloud-based Simulators: Making Simulations Accessible to Non-Experts and Experts Alike
  J.J. Padilla, S.Y. Diallo, A. Barraco, H. Kavak, and C.J. Lynch.
  2014 Winter Simulation Conference, Savannah, GA, December, 7-10, 2014, pp. 3630-3639
  [Paper] [BibTex]

Funding

• VMASC

Last updated on Jan 30, 2022.