The College continues to undergo a number of significant changes related to the recent ORSA/TIMS merger. We are now (officially) the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences College on Simulation (InfORMS/CS). Other operational changes continue and certain issues still need to be discussed.
One of the most important issues involves our representation on the Winter Simulation Conference Board. It is my belief that this matter has been resolved in a way that will greatly benefit the College. Under the "old" plan, profits (and losses) from the WSC have been divided up among the sponsoring organizations in such a way that both ORSA and the College each received a 1/7th share of the proceeds. However, by referring to the WSC Board by-laws, the Board determined that it must now regard InfORMS (the new incarnation of ORSA and TIMS) and the College as a single sponsor. (Actually, the Board generously deferred implementation of this decree until 1996, thanks to the efforts of many people, including Bob Sargent, Bruce Schmeiser, and Jim Wilson.) The Board left it to the College and InfORMS to decide how to divide the 1/6th share of the WSC proceeds that will now be allocated to the combined InfORMS and College sponsorship entity. InfORMS, in turn, has generously agreed to give the College the full share. So we came out ahead, gaining an additional 1/42 share of the WSC proceeds! Thanks to everyone for all of the hard work that went into resolving the problem.
There is still a little work to do. How are the InfORMS and College Board members going to be selected in the future? Will there be just one representative between InfORMS and the College? Will we split votes among two representatives?
Some continuing great news involves the incredible evolution of the College's Web page, http://www.isye.gatech.edu/informs-sim
as well as a new improved page for the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, http://www.isye.gatech.edu/org/informs/wsc95.
Webmaster Peter Welch has designed the page to be a general source of information and WWW references for the simulation community. Please take a look at the page at your earliest convenience and send us your comments.
Our standing committees are as follows. The Distinguished Service Award Committee consists of David Kelton, Alan Pritsker (Chair), and Steve Roberts (our most recent recipient). The Publication Award Committee is made up of John Fowler, Paul Glasserman (Chair), and Richard Fujimoto (last year's recipient). The Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women consists of Sigrún Andradóttir, Darrell Donohue, Susan Sanchez (Chair), and Jorge Romeu.
I look forward to seeing you at the Washington WSC and InfORMS meetings!
Dave Goldsman
President, InfORMS College on Simulation
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I trust that all of us who attended the recent INFORMS meeting in New Orleans have by now digested any alligator and cheese omelettes we had for breakfast, put away our Mardi Gras beads until the next trip, and recovered from any untoward circumstances encountered on Bourbon Street after the sessions, because it's time to get ready for the annual premier gathering of simulation researchers and practitioners, the Winter Simulation Conference, to be held this year at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA.
This issue of the newsletter reports on some new faces that you might see at WSC. The Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women, chaired by Susan Sanchez, has offered support to five individuals for attending the conference. Their names and affiliations are listed inside.
Along with our usual features, such as editorial status reports from Management Science from Pierre L'Ecuyer and Jim Wilson, Operations Research from Barry Nelson, and ORSA Journal on Computing from David Kelton, we have included in this issue a printout of the college's World Wide Web home page so that those of you who are not yet cyberspace initiates can see what you're missing, and will be enticed into browsing our Web site. If you are reading this on the Web at the URL
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/~charnes/informscs/fall95
you will find below a hyperlink to the college's homepage. Enjoy!
Thanks go out to Diane Bischak (with a little help this time from Keebom Kang) for maintaining the constantly changing email directory. If you're a member whose email address isn't listed in the directory, or if you'd like to update your information on the list, please let Diane know. We make the list available to any member who requests it, so if you're currently unlisted, you might want to send your name, affiliation and email address to her so that you're informed in a timely fashion.
As always, we're happy to include in the Newsletter any newsworthy items submitted by the members, so send yours to me. We accept items sent through any medium but prefer electronic submissions. Timesensitive material will be posted in the News section of the College's WWW site.
See you at the Hyatt.
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David Goldsman
School of ISyE
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
sman@isyse.gatech.edu
Jeffrey D. Tew
ISQ Group
Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
Box 6696
Portland, OR 97208-6696
jeff@eniac.cf.com
Sheldon H. Jacobson
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Eng.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0118
jacobson@tioli.ise.vt.edu
Douglas J. Morrice
MSIS Department, CBA 5.202
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1175
morrice@mail.utexas.edu
John M. Charnes
School of Business, Summerfield Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2003
j-charnes@ukans.edu
Diane P. Bischak
Department of Business Admin.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6080
ffdpb@aurora.alaska.edu
INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter is published in the Spring and Fall of each year by INFORMS College on Simulation. Membership in the College on Simulation is independent of membership in The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The annual membership fee for non-INFORMS members is $3; INFORMS members may join for $2. The fee for those outside of the U.S. or Canada is $3.
To join, send name, address, e-mail address (if applicable), and the appropriate fee to: Sheldon Jacobson, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0118. Make checks payable to INFORMS College on Simulation. Please pass along this announcement to others who might be interested in joining.
First Class postage paid at Lawrence, Kansas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter, 290 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02093.
INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter 1995 The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved.
Layout and Design: Anne Madden
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International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 29 December 1, 1995. Contact M. Sami Fadali, University of Nevada, Reno, phone (702) 7846951, fax (702) 7846627.
1995 Winter Simulation Conference, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, December 36, 1995. WWW page http://www.isye.gatech.edu/org/informs/wsc95. Contact Dave Goldsman, Georgia Tech, sman@isye.gatech.edu.
29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 36, 1996. Contact Alois Ferscha, Universitaet Wien, ferscha@ani.univie.ac.at, phone (+43 1) 408 63 66 18, fax (+43 1) 408 04 50.
International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, San Jose, California, February 13, 1996. WWW page http://rabbit.cs.utsa.edu/MASCOTS96.html. Contact Xiaodong Zhang, University of Texas at San Antonio, zhang@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, phone (210) 6915541, fax (210) 6914439.
4th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modelling and Analysis, Bell South Tower, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2124, 1996. Contact Bezalel Gavish, Vanderbilt University, gavishb@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu, phone (615) 3223659, fax (615) 3437177.
Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, Radisson Hotel, La Jolla, California, March 2327, 1996. WWW page http://aiswww.ece.arizona.edu. Contact Bernard Zeigler, University of Arizona, zeigler@ece.arizona.edu, phone (520) 6212108.
29th Annual Simulation Symposium, Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 811, 1996. WWW page http://www.cs.pitt.edu/simsymp29. Contact Taieb Znati, znati@cs.pitt.edu, phone (412) 6248417, fax (412) 6248854.
IEEE Southeastcon '96, Hyatt Regency at Tampa City Center, Tampa, Florida, April 1114, 1996. WWW page http://www.eng.usf.edu/EE/secon96.html. Contact Ravi Sankar, University of South Florida, sankar@eng.usf.edu, phone (813) 9744769, fax (813) 9745250.
INFORMS National Meeting, Washington Hilton & Towers, Washington, D.C., May 58, 1996. Contact Tom Gulledge, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2326, 1996. WWW page http://www.cs.wm.edu/sigmetrics96.html. Contact Dan Reed, University of Illinois, reed@cs.uiuc.edu, phone (217) 3333807.
3rd Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1921, 1996. WWW page http://www.cs.rug.nl/info/WODES. Contact Rein Smedinga, University of Groningen, wodes96@cs.rug.nl, fax +3150633800.
Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, October 1518, 1996. Contact Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic, kaveh@cwins.wpi.edu, fax (508) 831 5491.
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Members Present: Sheldon Jacobson, Sigrún Andradóttir, Anne Henrikson, Dean Hartley, John Fowler, Dave Goldsman.
Nonmembers Present: Stefan Voss, Ben Rodriguez, Manfred Mittler.
1. Introductions.
2. Summary of Minutes from Los Angeles ORSA/TIMS business meeting.
(a) Informally discussed the concept of awarding certain members the rank of Fellows of the College.
(b) College WWW page.
3. Treasurer's Report. (Sheldon Jacobson)
4. Vice President's report on sponsored sessions. Please submit session proposals and papers for the Spring 1996 InfORMS Conference in Washington, D.C.
5. Newsletter Editor's report. The Fall issue is about to go to press (after incurring delays caused by the President's tardy report).
6. Report on WSC Ph.D. Student Colloquium. We have 5 submissions so far. Hurry up and contact Enver Yuçesan if you would like a spot in the Colloquium.
7. Report on Standing Committees. The Distinguished Service Award and Outstanding Publication Award Committees have made their decisions for 1995. The awards will be announced at the opening session of WSC.
8. Status Report on 1995 Winter Simulation Conference. Everything is in place, including over 200 presentations, a special military track, and Wednesday afternoon vendor short courses. Bring your friends.
Old Business
9. Implications of the InfORMS merger on the College. Under the "old" plan, profits (and losses) from the WSC have been divided up among the sponsoring organizations in such a way that the both ORSA and the College each received a 1/7th share of the proceeds. However, by referring to the WSC Board by-laws, the Board determined that it must now regard infORMS (the new incarnation of ORSA and TIMS) and the College as a single sponsor. (Actually, the Board generously deferred implementation of this decree until 1996, thanks to the efforts of many people, including Bob Sargent, Bruce Schmeiser, and Jim Wilson.) The Board left it to the College and InfORMS to decide how to divide the 1/6th share of the WSC proceeds that we will now be allocated to the combined InfORMS and College sponsorship entity. InfORMS, in turn, has generously agreed to give the College the full share. So we came out ahead, gaining an additional 1/42 share of the WSC proceeds! Thanks to everyone for all of their help.
New Business
10. We have an updated College WWW page, http://www.ispe.gatech.edu/informs-sim as well as a new improved page for the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, http://www.ispe.gatech.eds/org/informs/wsc95
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For the period 3/9/95 to 8/9/95, the InfORMS College on Simulation
had the following transactions at the NBC Bank (Blacksburg, VA).
Balance Forward $15,684.84 Revenues Money Market Account Interest $290.60 Advertisement in Spring 1994 Newsletter $235.00 WSC 94 Seed Money Return $2000.00 Total Revenues $2,525.60 Disbursements Spring 95 Newsletter $713.58 Refreshments, Los Angeles InfORMS $300.48 College on Simulation WWW Page Set Up $1,000.00 Photocopying $10.66 Logo Design $300.00 Total Disbursements $2,324.72 Net (Revenue-Disbursements) $ 200.88 Balance Forward $15,885.72
In addition to the above funds, the College has on account at InfORMS $2,862.85 (6/30/95), bringing the net worth of the InfORMS/CS to $18,748.57.
Respectfully Submitted, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Treasurer
8/29/95
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By Barry L. Nelson, Area Editor
In 1995 there have been 7 submissions, of which 3 have been rejected, 3 are in revision and 1 is in review. Overall, there have been 11 submissions, 6 rejections, and 4 papers in revision since the change in Area Editor, with an average review time of 4.5 months. The short turnaround time is due largely to Associate Editors Peter Haas, IBM Research; David Kelton, University of Minnesota; Susan Sanchez, University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Mike Taaffe, University of Minnesota.
The Simulation Area of Operations Research publishes high-quality papers describing advances in the theory and practice of system simulation. Four copies of the paper, along with a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement and Statement of Contribution should be submitted to the Area Editor at the address below. The Copyright Transfer Agreement can be found in Volume 42, Number 6 (1994); the Statement of Contribution form can be found in Volume 42, Number 6 (1994). These forms must be submitted before the review can begin. Electronic submission of self-contained TeX or LaTeX files is permitted, except for the Copyright Transfer Agreement, which may be faxed.
Barry L. Nelson, Area Editor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
2225 N. Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-3119
Voice: (708) 491-3747
FAX: (708) 491-8005
e-mail: nelsonb@primal.iems.nwu.edu
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by David Kelton, Area Editor
Since my last report to the INFORMS/CS Newsletter (on March 10, 1995) there have been three new papers submitted, none accepted, and one rejected. Currently there are ten papers in various stages of the reviewing and revision process.
The Area Policy statement (in LaTeX input format) is in the file areapolicy.tex and may be obtained by anonymous ftp to msi.umn.edu (cd pub/dkelton/joc) or at ftp://msi.umn.edu/pub/dkelton/joc/ on the Web.
Associate Editors for the Simulation Area are Osman Balci, Gordon Clark, and David Nicol.
Area Editor W. David Kelton
Department of Operations and Management Science
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
271 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.
Phone: (612) 624--8503
internet: dkelton@msi.umn.edu
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The INFORMS/CS Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women is again sponsoring several students and faculty members to attend the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference in Arlington, Virginia on December 36, 1995.
The award is made to students and faculty members who are women/minority, and to faculty members who teach at predominantly women's or minority colleges. In all cases, the award is limited to student and faculty members who have not previously attended the Winter Simulation Conference, and will not be coauthors of a presentation at the 1995 conference. Awards range between $100 and $300 depending on the situation, and can be applied towards registration and other expenses. This year's awardees are:
Cristina Arguelles, Ph.D. student, University of North Carolina
Telba Irony, faculty, George Washington University
C. Lynn Kiaer, faculty, RoseHulman Institute of Technology
Indira Kuruganti, Ph.D. student, University of Virginia
Natalie Steiger, Ph.D. student, North Carolina State University
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by Pierre L'Ecuyer, Department Editor, and James R. Wilson, Former Departmental Editor
Since the first of this year, 5 new papers have been submitted to the Simulation Department of Management Science; and editorial work has been completed on 12 papers, with 4 papers accepted, 6 papers rejected, and 2 papers withdrawn. For some reason, we are observing a decrease in the submission rate. The average submission rate has been 20 new papers per year over the past five years.
Currently the Simulation Department has 18 papers in process, including 4 "late" papers, for which more than 6 months have elapsed without editorial feedback being provided to the author(s). We are doing the best we can to eliminate these late papers, and we would greatly appreciate the cooperation of all referees in helping us achieve this goal.
The Simulation Department needs more submissions! We seek high-quality papers dealing with any aspect of system simulation that is relevant to the practice or theory of management science. Authors can submit their paper to the Departmental Editor
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Name Affiliation E-Mail AddressSimaan Abourijk University of Alberta abourijk@civil.ualberta.ca Christos Alexopoulos Georgia Tech christos@isye.gatech.edu Sigrún Andradóttir U. of Wisconsin sa@engr.wisc.edu Jeff Arthur Oregon State arthur@stat.orst.edu Paul Auclair AFIT pauclair@afit.af.mil Thanos Avramidis SABRE Decision Tech. avramidi@sdt.com Mike Bailey Postgraduate School mike@uwhiz.or.nps.navy.mil Osman Balci Virginia Tech balci@vtopus.cs.vt.edu Russell Barton Penn State barton@simplex.psu.edu Ken Bauer AFIT kbauer@afit.af.mil Diane Bischak U. Alaska Fairbanks ffdpb@aurora.alaska.edu Gordon Bliss Polaroid Corp. blissg@mr.polaroid.com Ted Brown Queens College tbrown@csdept.cs.qc.edu Ron Burt Corning Incorporated burt_r@corning.com Arnie Buss Naval Postgraduate School buss@nextkm.or.nps.navy.mil Martha Centeno FSU centeno@engr.fiu.edu Frank Chance Cornell chance@orie.cornell.edu John Charnes U. Kansas j-charnes@ukans.edu Russell Cheng U. Kent at Canterbury R.C.H.Cheng@ukc.ac.uk Chiahon Chien Mitsubishi Research chien@ca.merl.com Gordon Clark Ohio State clark-g@eng.ohio-state.edu Tom Clark Florida State tclark@fsuavm.bitnet John Comfort Florida International comfort@servax.bitnet Ron Dattero Florida Atlantic dattero@fauvax.bitnet Michael L. Deaton James Madison Univ., VA fac_mdeaton@jmu.edu Bryan Denermeyer Texas A & M bryan@sematech.tamu.edu Luc Devroye McGill luc@mujunior.cs.mcgill.ca Darrell W. Donahue NC State ngrddwd@peele.bas.ncsu.edu Joan Donohue U. South Carolina donohue@darla.badm.scarolina.edu Remko Dur Delft Tech winfdur@hdetud2.tudelft.nl Phil Farrington Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville paf@ebs330.eb.uah.edu Paul J. Fields Naval Post Graduate School sys6p@nps.nav Paul Fishwick Florida fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu Bob Foley Georgia Tech rfoley@gtri01.bitnet John Fowler Sematech john_fowler@sematech.org Ben Fox U. Col.-Denver bfox@cudenver.bitnet Michael C. Fu U. Maryland mfu@umd5.umd.edu Masanori Fushimi U. Tokyo fushimi@misojiro.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp James Gentle George Mason jgentle@gmu.edu Paul Glasserman Columbia pglasser@research.gsb.columbia.edu Peter Glynn Stanford glynn@leland.stanford.edu Dave Goldsman Georgia Tech sman@isye.gatech.edu David Grier George Washington dagrier@gwuvm.bitnet Peter Haas IBM peterh@almaden.ibm.com Jorge Haddock RPI haddock@rpi.edu Dan Halpin Purdue University halpin@ecn.purdue.edu Dean Hartley Martin Marietta dhx@ornl.gov Kevin Healy Cornell healykj@ecn.purdue.edu Phil Heidelberger IBM berger@watson.ibm.com Anne D. Henriksen Los Alamos Nat'l. Lab adh@lan.gov Rong-Yau Huang Purdue rong@cn.ecn.purdue.edu Sheldon Jacobson Virginia Tech jacobson@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Alfred Jones Florida Atlantic alf@cse.fau.edu Keebom Kang Naval Postgrad. Sch. kkang@nps.navy.mil Voratas Kachitvichyanuhmd HDL Systems voratas@neosoft.com David Kelton U. Minnesota dkelton@msi.umn.edu Yun Bae Kim Korea Telecom Research Center ybkim@evolve.kotel.co.kr Jack Kleijnen Tilburg (Netherlands) kleijnen@kub.nl.bitnet Robert Klein IUPUI rklein@indyvax.bitnet Murat Koksalan Middle East Tech koksalan@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr Pierre Lecuyer U. Montreal lecuyer@iro.umontreal.ca Peter Lewis Naval Postgrad. Sch. 1526p@navpgs.bitnet J Jung Lyu Iowa aeglynpa@uiamvs.bitnet Frank Matejcik SD School of Mines fmatejci@silver.sdsmt.edu Susumu Morito Waseda (Japan) opremori@jpnwas00 Douglas Morrice U. Texas Douglas.Morrice@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu Edward Mykytka AFIT emykytka@afit.af.mil Marvin Nakayama New Jersey Inst. Tech. @vienna.njit.edu Richard Nance Virginia Tech nance@vtopus.cs.vt.edu Barry Nelson Ohio State nelsonb@primal.iems.nwu.edu Harald Niederreiter U. Vienna nied@qiinfo.oeaw.ac.at Norman Nielsen SRI International nielsen@sri.com Bob O'Keefe RPI okeefe@rpi.edu Mike Overstreet Old Dominion Univ. cmo@cs.odu.edu> Antonio Pedrosa Universidade Catolica, Portugal pedrosa@esb.vcp.pt Mike Pidd Lancaster U. (UK) M.Pidd@lancs.ac.uk Ashvin Radiya Wichita State radiya@sulu.cs.twsu.edu R. Joel Rahn Laval rahnj@vm1.ulaval.ca Roderick Reasor Virginia Tech reasor@vtvm1.bitnet Charles Reilly Ohio State reilly-c@eng.ohio-state.edu Steve Roberts NC State roberts@eos.ncsu.edu Jim Robinson Lexis-Nexis jamesr@meaddata.com Paul Sanchez Indalo Software paul@whimsy.umsl.edu Bob Sargent Syracuse rsargent@top.cis.syr.edu Eric Savage Cornell University savage@orie.cornell.edu Bruce Schmeiser Purdue schmeise@ecn.purdue.edu Tom Schriber Michigan Thomas.J.Schriber@um.cc.umich.edu Lee Schruben Cornell lee@orie.cornell.edu Tom Schuppe Lexis-Nexis tschuppe@meaddata.com Andy Seila U. Georgia aseila@cbacc.cba.uga.edu John Seydel U. Miss. mkseydel@umsvm.bitnet Perwez Shahabuddin IBM perwez@watson.ibm.com Robert Shannon Texas A&M res2568@tamsigma.bitnet Jingsheng Shi University of Alberta sgu@cem.civil.ualberta.ca Henk G. Sol Delft Tech sol@is.twi.tudelft.nl Ernst Stadlober TU-Graz, (Austria) statistik@rech.tu-graz.ada.at John D. Sterman MIT jsterman@mit.edu Jim Swain U. Ala. Huntsville jswain@ebs330.eb.uah.edu Mike Taaffe U. Minnesota taaffe@staff.tc.umn.edu Pandu R. Tadikamalla U. of Pittsburgh pandu@vms.cis.pitt.edu Jeffrey D. Tew Consolidated Freight jeff@eniac.cf.com Laurie Travis-Taafe Metropolitan State travis@iems.nmu.edu Pirooz Vakili Boston U. vakili@buenga.bu.edu Enio Velazco Worcester Poly evelazco@wpi.wpi.edu Twan Vollebregt Univ. of Canterbury tav@mang.canterbury.ac.nz Jin Wang Purdue jinwang@ecn.purdue.edu Peter Welch IBM welch@watson.ibm.com Folkert W. Wierda Delft Tech winffww@hdetud2.tudelft.nl Chuck White DuPont white::pavax@dupont.com Ward Whitt AT&T Bell Labs wow@research.att.com Rosemary Wild U. Hawaii wild@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu Deidre Williams Florida A & M University williams@cis.famu.edu Jim Wilson NC State jwilson@eos.ncsu.edu Dave Withers Mead Data Central davew@meaddata.com Ben Wong U. of North Texas fd93@untvax.bitnet Jeff Wright Purdue wrightje@simplex.ecn.purdue.edu Helio Yang San Diego State hyang@sciences.sdsu.edu Enver Yucesan INSEAD yucesan@insead.fr George Zobrist U. Missouri-Rolla c2816@umrvmb.umr.edu
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