Papers from the April 1996 symposium address traditional simulation topics in discrete-event, continuous, digital, and analog simulation, and explore areas of distributed systems, network modeling, and simulation, as well as advances in simulation methodology and practices. Topics include parallel and distributed simulation; multiprocessor architectures; network modeling; simulation languages, tools, and environments; animations and virtual reality; and simulation of distributed systems and databases. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.