INFORMS College on Simulation Minutes of Business Meeting
WSC '01 Conference
December 11, 2001
Russell Barton, Secretary

John Charnes, President, presiding.
The meeting was called to order at 5:15pm by John Charnes, President, who introduced the College Officers. The 78 attendees along with emails are listed below.
Vice President's Report: Susan Sanchez asked for suggestions for panels, sessions, or papers for the 2002 INFORMS Fall Conference, which will be held November 17-20 in San Jose, CA. A video projector will be available for presenters.
Secretary's Report: The minutes from the College business meeting at the Miami INFORMS conference were distributed and approved.
Treasurer's Report: Russell Barton gave the Treasurer's Report, stating that the College net worth was unchanged from the previous year, except for the cost of acquiring extra copies of the IIE Transactions Special Issue honoring Alan Pritsker. After sales, College expenses exceeded income by $1,500.
Newsletter: Steve Chick gave the Newsletter Editor's Report. He announced that there was some decrease size due to the lack of a Spring meeting, and he asked members to contribute stories to the Newsletter. Shane Henderson apologized for some errors in notices of expired College membership that accompanied the Fall Newsletter announcement. He asked that members visit the INFORMS web site and update their e-mail addresses if necessary.
Journal Editors: Paul Glasserman reported that there were 30 submissions during the year for Management Science, and that the referee's reports were very good this year. More details were provided in the Fall Newsletter. Michael Fu said that the status of Operations Research was reported in the Miami meeting minutes. Susan Sanchez requested simulation papers for the INFORMS Journal on Computing.
WSC'01 Report: Barry Nelson reported that the Winter Simulation Conference was a good conference, in spite of the reduced travel associated with the economy and the events of September 11. He said that there was no danger of serious financial problems.
Web Page: Jim Wilson reported on the College web page. He said that a new volunteer, Kevin Spandler had joined the editorial staff. Jim said that the web page has remained substantially unchanged since 1997, and that the editorial team is seeking people with new ideas to help update the pages.
Pritsker Special Issue of IIE Transactions: Jim Wilson brought some copies with him, and distributed them to students attending the meeting. In addition, 16 copies were sold at the meeting.
Change to the Bylaws: John Charnes described the proposed bylaw change to eliminate the requirement of a Spring College meeting. A referendum was conducted to change College By-Law Article VI, Paragraph 1-Frequency of Meetings. (Secretary's note: the meeting tally was 43 in favor, one opposed.) New Business: Susan Sanchez announced that INFORMS was providing a 2-year option for the payment of dues. She asked members to remember to pay their College on Simulation dues for two years as well. Susan also suggested that it was time for the College to revisit the issue of becoming a Society within INFORMS. She will start the paperwork to become a Society. One of the requirements is a membership of 500 or more, so she asked members to renew their memberships early. John Charnes asked for a show of hands in support of this effort. There were no hands opposed.
CUMW Awards: John Fowler announced the travel award winners for the Committee for Underrepresented Minorities and Women. They were Nilay Argon, Ying He, Marsha Lee, Ahmad Ridley, Theresa Roedar and Jenette Selby-Lucas.
Outstanding Publication Award: Michael Fu presented the College Outstanding Publication Award to Averill law and W. David Kelton for their textbook, Simulation Modeling and Analysis. Michael read from several testimonials, which are included in their entirety in the newsletter. Averill Law and David Kelton both thanked the committee for the award, and each complimented and thanked their co-author.
Distinguished Service Award: Jerry Banks announced that there will be a Distinguished Service Award in 2002.
Lifetime Professional Achievement Award: Julian Reitman introduced Jim Wilson to present the College Lifetime Professional Achievement Award to Tom Schriber. Jim's remarks are reproduced at the end of these minutes. Tom Schriber thanked Julian Reitman, Jim Wilson, the nominator and the LPAA Committee, as well as the WSC attendees. He felt that "none of us are islands" and that his accomplishments were helped and influenced by many in the discrete-event simulation community. He acknowledged and thanked his late father and 94-year old mother, his wife Ann and children, and Alan Spivey for asking him to develop the first simulation course at Michigan.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 with a reception in honor of Tom Schriber.

Respectfully submitted, Russell R. Barton, Secretary/Treasurer.

Attendees, INFORMS College on Simulation Business Meeting WSC'01 Washington, D.C:

Heimo Adelsberger heimo@adelsberger.com
Christos Alexopoulos christos@isye.gatech.edu
Theodore Allen allen.515@osu.edu
Sigrún Andradóttir sa@isye.gatech.edu
Nilay Argon nilay@isye.gatech.edu
Jerry Banks atljerry@earthlink.net
Russell Barton rbarton@psu.edu
Ron Billings ron.billings@ieee.org
Justin Boesel boesel@mitre.org
Arnold Buss abuss@nps.navy.mil
Jim Calvin calvin@cis.njit.edu
Martha Centeno centeno@eng.fiu.edu
John Charnes jmc@ku.edu
Chun-Hung Chen cchen9@gmu.edu
Russell Cheng rchc@maths.soton.ac.uk
Steve Chick stephen.chick@insead.edu
Bahar Deler bahar@iems.nwu.edu
John DiLeo dileo@mitre.org
John Fahy johnffahy@netscape.net
John Fowler john.fowler@asu.edu
Michael Fu mfu@rhsmith.umd.edu
Paul Glasserman pg20@columbia.edu
Ezequiel Glinsky eglinsky@dc.uba.ar
Dave Goldsman sman@isye.gatech.edu
Don Gross dgross1@gmu.edu
Dean Hartley dshartley@home.com
Ying He yhe@eng.umd.edu
Kevin Healy healy@threadtec.com
Shane Henderson shane@orie.cornell.edu
Jim Henriksen mail@wolverinesoftware.com
Don Hill dehill@mapllc.com
Ray Hill ray.hill@afit.edu
Paul Hyden hyden@clemson.edu
Kamran Iqbal kxiqbal@ualr.edu
Sheldon Jacobson shj@uiuc.edu
Jeff Joines jeffjoines@ncsu.edu
David Kelton dkelton@psu.edu
Seong-Hee Kim skim@isye.gatech.edu
Michael Kuhl mekeie@rit.edu
 Pierre L'Ecuyer lecuyer@iro.umontreal
Emily Lada eklada@eos.ncsu.edu
Averill Law averill@ix.netcom.com
Marsha Lee mlee09@fiu.edu
Loo Hay Lee iseleelh@nus.edu.sg
Jason Merrick jrmerrick@vcu.edu
André Mund amund@asu.edu
Mahdi Nasereddin mxn16@psu.edu
Barry Nelson nelsonb@northwestern.edu
Juta Pichitlamken juta@northwestern.edu
Debby Prigal deborah.l.prigal@boeing.com
Julian Reitman jreitman@stamford.uconn.edu
Ahmad Ridley adr@math.umd.edu
Steve Roberts roberts@eos.ncsu.edu
Theresa Roeder roeder@ieor.berkeley.edu
Susan Sanchez ssanchez@nps.navy.mil
Paul Sanchez pjs@alum.mit.edu
Robert Sargent rsargent@syr.edu
Lisa Schafer lisaann@mitre.org
Bruce Schmeiser bruce@purdue.edu
Tom Schriber schriber@umich.edu
J.D. Selby-Lucas jselbylu@odu.edu
Bruce Shultes bruce.shultes@uc.edu
Jeff Smith jsmith@eng.auburn.edu
Ingolf Stahl ingolf.stahl@hhs.se
Cálin Stancin calin@vt.edu
Jeremy Staum staum@orie.cornell.edu
Natalie Steiger nsteiger@maine.edu
Jim Swain jswain@ise.uah.edu
Mike Taaffe taaffe@umn.edu
Charles Thayer cthayer@amre.com
Kristin Thoney kristin_thoney@ncsu.edu
Paolo Trinchieri trinchie@mitretek.org
Hans Vangheluwe hv@cs.mcgill.ca
K. Voratas voratas@ait.ac.th
Fred Wieland fwieland@mitre.org
Jim Wilson jwilson@eos.ncsu.edu
Enver Yücesan enver.yucesan@insead.edu
Faker Zouaoui faker.zouaoui@sabre.com