OSMAN BALCI
Professor

Department of Computer Science
3160B Torgersen Hall, MC 0106 (see map)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA

(540) 231-4841 Tel

(540) 231-6075 Fax
http://manta.cs.vt.edu/balci
Education: Areas of Expertise:

Selected Courses Taught:

Selected Research Grants and Contracts:

NASA
2005 - 2006 Development of a Standard for Quality Assurance of Models and Simulations, NASA Langley Research Center / National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD):
2006 - Passive, Remote and Open Situation Awareness System (PROSAS)
2006

Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID)
2005 Network-Centric Open Systems Architecture Assessment
2004 Network-Centric Operations / Warfare, Naval Network Warfare Command
2002 - 2003 Missile Defense Agency (MDA): Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A); Software Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V); System IV&V
2002 - 2004 MDA Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD): M&S VV&A; Software IV&V; System IV&V
2001 - 2002 U.S. Navy DD21: Software Certification
1998 - 2002 National Missile Defense (NMD): M&S VV&A; Software IV&V; System IV&V
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO)
1996 - 1997 Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) Technical Support
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL):
1995 - 1996 Visual Simulation Environment

Selected Professional Activities:

03/90 - present VV&A Area Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
04/85 - present Simulation and Modeling Category Editor of ACM Computing Reviews
08/03 - present Area Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International
07/05 - present Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Simulation
01/04 - present Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling.
09/93 - 12/02 Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Software Engineering, an international journal
08/96 - 12/00 Editor-in-Chief, World Wide Web, an international journal
07/02 - 07/06 Director at Large for the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) Board of Directors

Selected Awards and Honors: Selected Publications:
  1. David S. Myers and Osman Balci (2009), “A Web-Based Visual Simulation Architecture,” International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, to appear.
  2. Osman Balci and William F. Ormsby (2008), “Network-Centric Military System Architecture Assessment Methodology,” International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 1, 1-2, 271-292.
  3. Osman Balci and William F. Ormsby (2007), “Scenario Simulation for Network-Centric Technology Assessment,” In Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services, A.N. Ince and A. Bragg, Eds, Springer, New York, NY, Chapter 10, pp. 203-226.
  4. Osman Balci and William F. Ormsby (2007), “Conceptual Modeling for Designing Large-Scale Simulations,” Journal of Simulation 1, 3 (Aug.) 175-186.
  5. Osman Balci and William F. Ormsby (2006), “Quality Assessment of Modeling and Simulation of Network-Centric Military Systems,” In Modeling and Simulation Tools for Emerging Telecommunications Networks: Needs, Trends, Challenges and Solutions, A.N. Ince and E. Topuz, Eds, Springer, New York, NY, Chapter 19, pp. 365-382.
  6. Mohammad Sabah and Osman Balci (2005), “Web-based Random Variate Generation for Stochastic Simulations,” International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, Vol. 1, No. 1&2, 16-25.
  7. Osman Balci (2004), “Quality Assessment, Verification, and Validation of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” In Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (Washington, DC, Dec. 5-8). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 122-129.
  8. Osman Balci (2003), “Verification, Validation, and Certification of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” In Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference (New Orleans, LA, Dec. 7-10). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 150-158.
  9. Osman Balci, Richard E. Nance, James D. Arthur, and William F. Ormsby (2002), “Expanding Our Horizons in VV&A Research and Practice,” In Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (San Diego, CA, Dec. 8-11). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 653-663.
  10. Osman Balci and Said D. Saadi (2002), “Proposed Standard Processes for Certification of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” In Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (San Diego, CA, Dec. 8-11). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1621-1627.
  11. Osman Balci (2001), “A Methodology for Certification of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Oct.), 352-377.
  12. Osman Balci, William S. Gilley, Robin J. Adams, Emre Tunar, and N. Dwight Barnette (2001), “Animations to Assist Learning Some Key Computer Science Topics,”ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer).
  13. Osman Balci and William F. Ormsby (2000), “Well-Defined Intended Uses: An Explicit Requirement for Accreditation of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” In Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference (Orlando, FL, Dec. 10-13). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 849-854.
  14. Osman Balci, William F. Ormsby, John T. Carr, III and Said D. Saadi (2000), “Planning for Verification, Validation, and Accreditation of Modeling and Simulation Applications,” In Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference (Orlando, FL, Dec. 10-13). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 829-839.