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Simmcast is an object-oriented simulation framework for protocol and network research. Its design is focused towards simplicity and extensibility. Simmcast has specific support for group communication: allowing a spectrum of experiments that range from evaluation of abstract group communication models to simulation of more detailed unicast or multicast protocol behavior. It is cross-platform and written in Java.
Simmcast employs a process-based discrete-event model on which building blocks are combined and extended in order to create new simulation environments. Network and protocol parameters are given in terms of numeric distributions (fixed or probabilistic), which can be replaced without recompilation. This extensive use of numeric distributions combined to the extendible framework structure allow an abstract experiment to evolve into a detailed one by progressively increasing the level of detail and sources of non-determinism of the constituting blocks.
The software results from a research effort which begun in 2001, in Unisinos University, Brazil. The corresponding research project was led by Prof. Marinho P. Barcellos, with funding from Brazilian Research Agencies CNPq and FAPERGS. Many people have contributed to the project, including André Detsch, Lucas A. Seewald, Giovani Facchini, Guilherme B. Bedin, Rosana Casais, Rodolfo S. Antunes, and Ruthiano S. Munaretti. In particular, Simmcast has benefited from Hisham H. Muhammad's ideas of frameworks and extensibility, as well as its realization into a well-documented, full-fledged protocol simulation framework.

Kenneth R. Valpey (born December 18, 1950) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Theologian who studied at Oxford University, St Cross College (1999-2004). While there, he conducted his research at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where his dissertation was on Chaitanya Vaishnava murti-seva. He is also a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, in which Krishna Ksetra Das (spiritual name given to him by Srila Prabhupada) acts as an initiating spiritual master, or guru. He is a professor at Bhaktivedanta College where the central program of study is in Vaishnava Theology. There he teaches courses in Vaishnava Vedanta. He teaches at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and has a Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. At present he is working with Ravi M. Gupta on a ‘companion’ to the Bhagavata Purana, and on a translation of a 16th-century Sanskrit Vaisnava ritual texts in corroboration with Dr. Mans Broo (Abo Akademie, Finland). Having taught courses in Indian and Asian religions for the year 2006 at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and having taught for the academic year 2007-08 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, he continues to teach at Chinese University of Hong Kong each Autumn semester as a visiting scholar.

Véronique Tristram is a fashion director for Germany since September 2015. Before that, she was an independent stylist for European and American magazines and fashion labels. She worked for international Condé Nast publications such as W, Vogue Sposa, and GQ, and for German media and brands including Baldessarini, Hanro, Laurèl and Talbot Runhof. From 2006 to 2010 she was Fashion Director of Cosmopolitan Germany and from 2000 to 2006, Deputy active fashion director of InStyle.
She was born in France and has two sons; Fred & Charles. She started her professional career as a German and French teacher at the Lycée Français in Hamburg, where she taught for three years. She completed her academic studies of German and French literature at the University of Lille.
She is known for her big and bold glasses and impressive overcoats.