| Sumario: | Welcome to the 2020 edition of ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS), to be held in June 15-16, 2020, in sunny Miami, Florida, virtually. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things, both socially and economically, this conference included. This year, we are holding the Conference as a synchronous virtual event with all participants joining via a video conferencing platform. Despite being virtual, the Conference will have a broader participation from the community due to online accessibility and reduced cost. SIGSIM-PADS is the flagship conference for ACM's Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (SIGSIM) with a broad scope in cutting-edge research in the field of computer modeling and simulation. This year's conference will feature two keynote speeches, a panel, and 18 paper presentations. Dr. Adolfy Hoisie from Brookhaven National Laboratory will give the first keynote speech on "System and Application Performance Modeling and Simulation in the AI Era". Dr. Madhav Marathe from University of Virginia will give the second keynote speech on "High Performance Simulations to Support Real-time COVID-19 Response". Immediately after the second keynote, the conference will have a panel discussion on "How will the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Change Modeling & Simulation?", led by Paul Fishwick from University of Texas at Dallas. The panelists include several experts in the field: Madhav Marathe, David Fishwick, Nigel Gilbert, Andreas Tolk, David Bell, and Navonil Mustafee. A total of 36 manuscripts were submitted to the conference. This 50% increase in submissions from the previous year demonstrates the dynamic nature of simulation research and the strong reputation of SIGSIM-PADS within the field. Submissions were reviewed by 36 program committee members affiliated with institutions (including national laboratories, universities, companies) in several countries (e.g., USA, Germany, Italy, UK). Submissions within scope received at least three high-quality reviews and were then discussed in a general meeting of the Program Committee, following the collegial practices that SIGSIM-PADS has engaged in for many years. Based on this shared decision-making process, one third of the submissions were accepted as full papers. Accepted papers exemplify the breadth of research conducted in the simulation community in domains such as parallel discrete event simulations, large-scale computing, or agent-based models. PADS also continues to pioneer in the Computational Results Replication and Artifact Evaluation initiative supported by ACM. PADS is the first simulation conference to give authors the possibility to have their artifacts evaluated by a dedicated committee, and results of their research independently replicated. This effort increases the trust in modeling and simulation research. In addition, making artifacts accessible and preparing them for reuse promises faster progress in modeling and simulation science and practise. This year, PADS has pushed this initiative a step further: we have included in the proceedings the results of the replication of results. This is an important step. With this, the results of the replication are available to readers, showing how the initiative is being carried out. A total of 17 badges has been requested, of which 16 have been assigned after careful evaluation.
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