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As the College on Simulation moves into its second year of operation under the restructuring of ORSA/TIMS into INFORMS, we are faced with many significant challenges and opportunities. Among them, we must identify ways for expanding our role in the simulation community so as to meet the needs of an ever-growing population of simulation users and continue to serve as the focal point for the field of simulation. This issue raises many questions which will be difficult to answer (e.g., should we and, if so, how do we strengthen the relationship between industry and the College? How should we coordinate efforts to attract new members?) and touches many related issues we must face in the coming years. As in the past, the directions we take and the energy we apply to the challenges and opportunities facing the College will determine our eventual success. I am confident that the vibrant and enthusiastic College membership will successfully meet all of such foreseen and unforeseen challenges and continue to lead us into further enhancement of our standing professionally.
I am very happy to report the results of our recent elections for officers:
Please join me in congratulating Mike, John, Diane, and Russell on their new College positions; I am honored to work with them and to be part of their team. Special recognition and appreciation must go to Dave Goldsman, our new Past President, for the considerable efforts he has brought to the President's position over the past two years. Dave is a wonderful example of the fine, tireless leadership that the College has often enjoyed throughout its long history. The College is deeply indebted to Dave for his many contributions.
Our standing committees (Distinguished Service Award Committee, Publication Award Committee, Membership Committee, and the Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women) have much important work ahead of them. We will be looking forward to their progress as it is reported at the Business Meetings and in this publication. They will need your support and your involvement.
I enthusiastically look forward to working with you during the next two years, and I hope to see you at upcoming INFORMS and WSC meetings. I urge you to attend all College Business meetings and provide us with your input at any time.
Jeffrey D. Tew
President, INFORMS College on Simulation
In this issue of the Newsletter there is much conference news. The Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women has selected awardees to attend the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference in San Diego, and two submissions by Enver Yucesan give details of upcoming international simulation conferences.
I am pleased to take over the role of Editor from my very capable predecessor John Charnes, who made the transition easy. Thanks to Russ Barton for his able assistance in his inaugural voyage as Associate Editor, and thanks to everyone who submitted items for the Newsletter this time around: Jeff Tew, Mike Taaffe, Sheldon Jacobson, Dave Kelton, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Barry Nelson, Jorge Romeu, and Enver Yucesan.
We welcome your submissions for the Newsletter. We are particularly interested in feature articles, so if you have an exciting simulation research program going on at your institution or have developed new concepts in the teaching of simulation, write it up and send it in to me or to Russell Barton. All the news that fits, we'll print.
Diane Bischak
Jeffrey D. Tew
Director of Logistics Engineering
Schneider Logistics
P.O. Box 2666
Green Bay, WI 54306-2666
(414) 592-4182 fax (414) 592-2021
tew@sni.com
Michael R. Taaffe
Department of Operations & Management Science
Faculty of Scientific Computation
372 Management & Economics Bldg. - West Bank
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 626-7724 fax (612) 626-1316
taaffe@maroon.tc.umn.edu
John M. Charnes
School of Business
345M Summerfield Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2003 USA
(913) 864-7591 fax (913) 864-5328
john.charnes@ukans.edu
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~charnes .
Diane P. Bischak
Department of Business Administration
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 756080
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6080
(907) 474-6539 fax (907) 474-5219
ffdpb@aurora.alaska.edu
Russell R. Barton
Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
207 Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802 USA
(814) 863-7289 fax (814) 863-4745
barton@simplex.psu.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: John M. Charnes, School of Business, 345M Summerfield Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2003. 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 Linthicum, Maryland. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter, 901 Elkridge Landing Road, Suite 400, Linthicum, MD 20190.
INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter Copyright 1996 The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved.
Layout and Design: Jeanne Yoder
For the period 3/20/95 to 9/18/96, the INFORMS College on Simulation had the following transactions at the NBC Bank (Blacksburg, VA).
| Balance Forward | $16,584.16 | |
| Revenues | ||
| Money Market Account Interest | $288.29 | |
| WSC 95 Additional Payback | $1,951.27 | |
| Total Revenues | $2,239.56 | |
| Disbursements | ||
| Spring 96 Newsletter | $125.00 | |
| Women and Minority Program, WSC 95 | $200.00 | |
| Seed Money, WSC 96 | $2,000.00 | |
| Total Disbursements | $2,325.00 | |
| Net (Revenue-Disbursements) | ($ 85.44) | |
| Balance Forward | $16,498.72 |
In addition to the above funds, the College has on account at INFORMS $3,842.85 (5/31/96), bringing the net worth of the INFORMS/CS to $20,341.57.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Former Treasurer, 9/18/96
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/wsc96/
The 29th annual Winter Simulation Conference will be held at the historic oceanside Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego, California. WSC'96 will continue the tradition of bringing together established industrial practitioners, leading academicians, simulation newcomers, and commercial software and service providers.
The on-site registration fee is $295 for members of any sponsoring society and $360 for anyone not a member of a sponsoring society. (Sponsoring societies are IEEE, IIE, ASA, ACM, SCS, and INFORMS.) Student registration is $30. All presenters, session chairs, and conference attendees must register.
The entire Preliminary Program is available on the Winter Simulation Conference World Wide Web page listed above. This year for the first time abstracts of Proceedings papers are also on the web page.
An international reception in honor of WSC's increasing number of international attendees, first offered in 1995, will be continued with some changes. This year's international reception will be in the Grand Ballroom, which is also the Exhibits Area. It will be a wine and cheese reception from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 8, and will be open to everyone.
A first-time attendee orientation is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 8. Last year, 40% of WSC attendees identified themselves as first-timers. Following a brief presentation explaining the structure of the program and other events, there will be a question and answer session, and then group members can adjourn to the reception taking place in the Exhibit Hall.
Another new event is the Tuesday reception just before the user group meetings. This reception is sponsored by Sim.TECH, a group of software vendors.
Spouse/guest activities scheduled include a harbor excursion and city tour, a "behind the scenes" tour at the San Diego Zoo, shopping in La Jolla, the San Diego de Alcala and Old Town tour, a tour of the Stephen Birch Aquarium with a La Jolla beach walk, and a visit to Sea World. On-site sales of these special tickets will also be available at the attraction ticket desk, which will be located in the registration area.
If you have further questions about registration please contact Talley Management (telephone 609-845-1720, fax 609-853-0411). The WSC'96 committee members are:
MAIN TOPICS:
CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN:
General Conference Chairman:
Prof. Dr. Ali Riza Kaylan
Bogazici University, Dept.of Industrial Engineering, 80815
Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: 90. 212.2631540/2075
Fax: 90.212.2651800
kaylan@boun.edu.tr
General Conference Co-chairman:
Prof. Dr. Axel Lehmann
Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Munchen, Fak. fuer Informatik
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, D 85579
Neubiberg, Germany
Phone: 49.89.6004.2648
Fax: 49.89.6004.3560
Lehmann@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
SCS Conference Coordinator:
Rainer Rimane, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg Informatik IV
Martensstrasse 1, D-91058
Erlangen, Germany
Phone: 49.9131.857896
Fax: 49.9131.39388
Rainer.Rimane@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Wolfgang Borutzky (Germany)
Francois E. Cellier (USA)
Wolfgang Hoermann (Austria)
Ralph Huntsinger (USA)
Helen Karatza (Greece)
Eugene Kerckhoffs (Netherlands)
Jack Kleijnen (Netherlands)
Mario Savastano (Italy)
Martin Wildberger (USA)
Andras Javor (Hungary)
Uwe Langer (Germany)
Jerry Banks (USA)
Henri Pierreval (France)
Bernd Schmidt (Germany)
Onur Ulgen (USA)
Edward J. Williams (USA)
Juergen Halin (Switzerland)
Ellen Walther-Klaus (Germany)
Henri Muller (-Malek) (Belgium)
Birger Rapp (Sweden)
Ingolf Stahl (Sweden)
Levent Mollamustafaoglu (Netherlands)
Peter M. Jackson (UK)
Hans J.P.C Blanc, The Netherlands
Walter Colombo, Germany
Winfried Dulz, Germany
Stefan Greiner, Germany
Thomas Hanschke, Germany
Graham Horton, Germany
Werner Jarschel, Germany
Udo R. Krieger, Germany
Antonio Puliafito, Italy
Bruno Sericola, France
Christian Schnur, Germany
Christoph Strelen, Germany
Janos Sztrik, Hungary
Miklos Telek, Hungary
Kishor Trivedi, USA
DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS
Extended abstracts (2-3 pages for full and 150 words, 1 page for short papers typewritten without drawings and tables) are due to arrive in QUADRUPLICATE at the Industrial Engineering Department of Bogazici University, TURKEY before January 15, 1997.
New Business
Old Business
The minutes were recorded for John Charnes by Mike Taaffe.
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Since my last report to the INFORMS/CS Newsletter (on April 3, 1996) one new paper has been submitted, two have been accepted, and two have been rejected. Currently there are five 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 econqa.cba.uc.edu (cd pub/keltond/joc).
Associate Editors for the Simulation Area are Osman Balci, Gordon Clark, and David Nicol.
Submitted by David Kelton ( david.kelton@uc.edu), Area Editor
By Barry L. Nelson, Area Editor
The Simulation Area of Operations Research high-quality papers on simulation methodology and applications. The Simulation Area also reviews papers involving statistical problems in operations research. Associate Editors are Peter Haas, IBM Research; David Kelton, University of Cincinnati; Susan Sanchez, University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Mike Taaffe, University of Minnesota.
As of November 3, 1996 there have been 9 submissions, of which 4 have been rejected and 5 are in their initial review. The average time from submission to report in the Simulation Area is 123 days with a standard deviation of 83 days.
To submit a paper, send four copies of the manuscript, plus the statement of contribution, list of subject categories and copyright transfer agreement, to:
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@random.iems.nwu.edu
Detailed submission information, including the complete mission statement for the Simulation Area and instructions for mail and electronic submission, can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://primal.iems.nwu.edu/~nelsonb/
Since the first of this year, 12 new papers have been submitted to the Simulation Department of Management Science; and editorial work has been completed on 11 papers, with 3 papers accepted, 6 papers rejected, and 2 papers withdrawn. For comparison, we had 7 new submissions in 1995 and 19 in 1994.
Currently the Simulation Department has 16 papers in process, and none for which more than 4 months have elapsed without editorial feedback being provided to the author(s). We thank the referees for their good and timely work.
The Simulation Department welcomes your 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 either by electronic mail (in the form of one self-contained TeX or LaTeX or postscript file, without encoding) or by regular mail (in four hardcopies). Papers in electronic form may take less time to process because they can often escape mailing delays between the authors, Editors, and referees. The full text of the Editorial Policy is available from the web page of the Department Editor. His coordinates are:
Pierre L'Ecuyer
Département I.R.O.
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, H3C 3J7, CANADA
Phone: (514) 343-2143
email: lecuyer@iro.umontreal.ca
web:http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/people/lecuyer
The Associate Editors for the Simulation Department are:
Russell R. Barton of the Pennsylvania State University, Russell C. H. Cheng of The University of Kent at Canterbury, Halim Damerdji of North Carolina State University, Paul Glasserman of Columbia University, Peter W. Glynn of Stanford University, and John D. Sterman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1996 Winter Simulation Conference, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, California, December 8-11, 1996. WWW page http://www.cc.ukans.edu/wsc96/. Contact Jim Swain, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Phone: (205)895-6749, Fax: (205)895-6733, jswain@ebs330.eb.uah.edu.
1997 Western Multiconference, January 21-24, 1997, Sheraton Crescent Hotel, Phoenix, AZ, USA. WWW page http://www.scs.org/confernc/coninfo.html#WMC . Contact SCS International P. O. Box 17900 San Diego, California 92177, Phone: (619)277-3888, FAX: (619)277-3930, scs@sdsc.edu.
30th Annual Simulation Symposium, Stouffer Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, April 7-9, 1997. WWW page http://server.nich.edu/~symp30/. Contact Enrique V. Kortright, Department of Computer Science, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA 70310, Phone: (504)448-4406, Fax: (504)448-4927, ek@reality.nich.edu.
IEEE Infocom '97 , Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Kobe, Japan, April 7-11, 1997. WWW pages http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom/ and http://arpeggio.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/infocom.html .
INFORMS National Meeting, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, May 4-7, 1997. WWW page http://www.informs.org/Conf/SD97/. Contact INFORMS Office, Phone: (401)274-2525 or (800)343-0062, np246005@brownvm.brown.edu.
INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, May 4-5, 1997 (in conjunction with INFORMS). WWW page http://www.informs.org/Conf/SD97/. Contact Gary Koehler, Phone: (352)392-9600, Fax: (352)392-5438.
Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference, Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada, May 26-28, 1997. WWW page http://www.business.carleton. ca/cors97/. Contact Darren Meister, Carleton University, Phone: (613)520-2600 Ext. 2397, Fax: (613)520-4427, cors97@business.carleton.ca or dmeister@business.carleton.ca.
European Simulation Multiconference: ESM'97, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1-4, 1997. Contact Prof. Dr. Ali Riza Kaylan, Bogazici University, Dept.of Industrial Engineering, 80815 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey, Phone: 90-212-263-1540/2075, Fax: 90-212-265-1800, kaylan@boun.edu.tr.
PERFORMANCE TOOLS '97, 9th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, St Malo, France, June 2-6, 1997. WWW page http://222.irisa.fr/tools97. Contact Raymond Marie, Irisa, Phone: (+33) 99 84 72 95, Fax: (+33) 99 84 71 71, tools97@irisa.fr.
PADS '97, 11th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Burg Lockenhaus, near Vienna, Austria, June 10-13, 1997. WWW page http://www.it.kth.se/labs/sim/pads97. Contact Alois Ferscha, Universitaet Wien, Phone: (+43 1) 408 63 66 18, ferscha@ani.univie.ac.at.
1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of computer Systems, Seattle, WA, June 15-18, 1997. WWW page http://www.research.att.com/conf . Contact John Zahorjan, University of Washington, Phone: (206) 685-2695, an@cs.washington.edu.
9th INFORMS Applied Probability Section Conference, Cambridge Marriott Hotel, Cambridge, MA, June 30-July 2, 1997. Contact Michael Caramanis, Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, Phone: (617)353-3247, Fax: (617)353-5548, mcc@buenga.bu.edu or ap97@bu.edu.
EURO/INFORMS, Barcelona, Spain, July 14-17, 1997. Contact Burton Dean, San Jose State University, Phone: (408)924-3551.
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 24-29, 1997. WWW page http://dmawww.epfl.ch/roso.mosaic/ismp97/orga.html#1. Contact Dominique De Werra, Phone: 41-21-693-2562, Fax: 41-21-683-2220, dewerra@elma.epfl.ch.
1st WORLD CONGRESS ON SYSTEMS SIMULATION (2nd Joint Conference of International Simulation Societies), Singapore, September 1-4, 1997. WWW page http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~rimane/wcss97.html . Contact Rainer Rimane, rimane@informatik.uni-erlangen.de.
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hyatt Orlando Hotel, Orlando, October 12-15, 1997. WWW page http:/www.rpi.edu/~smc97. Contact Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, Phone: (407)823-0216, Fax: (407)823-3413, mol@engr.ucf.edu.
INFORMS National Meeting, Hyatt Regency, Dallas, October 26-29, 1997. Contact Paul Jensen, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering 62200, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.
http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~rimane/wcss97.html
The Congress on Systems Simulation will bring the world's leading computer modelers and simulationists together in one place to share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on all aspects of systems simulation. Twenty topics grouped into two categories as shown below are planned:
FOUNDATIONS OF SIMULATION
APPLICATIONS OF SIMULATION
For further information please contact: Rainer Rimane ( rimane@informatik.uni-erlangen.de), Tuncer Oren ( tuncer@yunus.man.tubitak.gov.tr), Lawrence W.C. Wong ( elewwcl@nus.sg or) Y.M. Teo ( teoym@iscs.nus.sg).
Submission Instructions: Authors are invited to submit complete, original, and previously unpublished papers reflecting their current research results. Submitted papers will be refereed for quality and originality, and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings jointly published by the IEEE Computer Society and the SCS-Europe Publishing House.
Manuscripts should not exceed 15 pages in length (double-spaced), include an abstract, and give a clear statement of the problems considered and results obtained. The author's name, affiliation, complete address of the corresponding author, email address, and telephone and fax numbers should be on the cover page. In addition, please indicate clearly on the cover page the name of the conference that the paper is submitted for consideration.
Please submit SIX copies of the full paper by January 10, 1997 to:
Secretariat of the 1st World Congress on Systems Simulation
Attention: Ms. Doris Yee
c/o IEEE Singapore Section
59D Science Park Drive, The Fleming
Singapore 118243
tel: +65 773 1141, fax: +65 773 1142, ieeesgp@pacific.net.sg
Important Dates:
General Congress Officers:
Sponsored by: SCS International, IEEE
Registration Fees:
Only accepted articles submitted with the registration fees will be included in the proceedings. Each additional article by a registered author requires an additional fee of US$400. Registration fees include one Congress Proceedings, coffee or refreshment during the breaks, three lunches and banquet.
The INFORMS College on Simulation is again sponsoring several students and faculty members to attend the annual Winter Simulation Conference. The Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women, consisting of Sigrun Andradottir, Ann Dunkin, Susan Sanchez, and Jorge Luis Romeu as Chair, unanimously selected four awardees from a pool of fourteen applicants. Two of these awards are for faculty and the other two are for students.
The two faculty awards to attend the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference in San Diego are for Connie Nott, of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Washington, and for Natacha E. Thomas, of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago. These two awards are for $300 each.
The two student awards are for Kelly Ann Sullivan, a doctoral student in the operations research program in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Tamminh Tran, a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. These two awards are for $200 each.
Awards are made to students and faculty members who are women and/or minorities 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 co-authors of a presentation at the 1996 conference. Awards range between $100 and $300 depending on the situation and can be applied towards registration and other expenses.