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Perhaps the biggest news is that the College now has a World Wide Web Page,
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/informs-sim/
as well as a page for the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference,
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/informs-sim/wsc95.html
The College page is the brainchild of Webmaster extraordinaire, Peter Welch, and is designed to be a general source of information and WWW references for the simulation community. Additional information concerning the page is available elsewhere in this issue of the Newsletter. Please take a look at the page and send us your comments. Peter has really gone above and beyond the call of duty on this project! By the way, when you access the page, the first thing you'll notice is the beautiful color version of the College's logo, courtesy of our logo design czar, Jim Wilson.
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 will also appoint a committee to study the possibility of offering a series of "Fellows of the INFORMS/CS'' honorary awards; this honor was suggested by Jim Wilson, and we encourage any exchange of ideas that the membership might have on this type of award.
I look forward to seeing you at the New Orleans INFORMS meeting and at the Washington WSC this year!
David Goldsman
President, INFORMS College on Simulation
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Welcome to the first issue of the INFORMS College on Simulation Newsletter. The latter portion of this working title awaits formal approval, but the initial acronym reflects our affiliation with the newly formed Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. However, because the changes to this organ induced by the new formation are nominal, we retain the volume numbering established for the TIMS College on Simulation Newsletter.
This issue marks the college's first venture into publishing on the World Wide Web (WWW). As Dave Goldsman points out in his president's message and the formal announcement on page 12, Peter Welch has done the college a great service by taking on the task of coordinating the effort to put up Web site s for both the college and the Winter Simulation Conference. These sites contain valuable information about the happenings within our group and at upcoming WSCs.
The Newsletter Editor's role has been expanded to include editorship of the college's WWW news pages. We plan to publish there any news pertinent to the members including promotions, new appointments, moves, etc. Please email to me any items that you would like posted on the news pages. All reasonable requests will be honored.
In addition to our regular fare such as the status report from Pierre L'Ecuyer on the Simulation Department of Management Science, this issue of the Newsletter contains status reports from Barry Nelson on the Simulation Department of Operations Research, and from David Kelton on the Simulation Area of ORSA Journal on Computing. We also have calls for nomination for our 1995 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award, and Distinguished Service Awards. Read on for news of the 1994 awards, which were made to Richard Fujimoto of Georgia Tech, and Steve Roberts of North Carolina State.
I hope you enjoy this issue of the Newsletter. If all goes well, a hypertext markup language (HTML) version of it will also be available on the college's Web site. I look forward to receiving your items for inclusion on the WWW site and in future hard copies of the Newsletter.
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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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by Pierre L'Ecuyer, Department Editor, and James R. Wilson, Former Departmental Editor
The Simulation Department of Management Science received 19 new submissions during the calendar year 1994 and 3 more during the first 2 months of 1995. Since the first of this year, 2 papers have been accepted and 2 papers have been rejected. To put these figures in perspective, there were 15 new submissions in 1993 and about 21 per year for the last 6 years, with an acceptance rate of about 1/3.
Currently the Simulation Department has 24 papers in process, including 5 "late" papers, for which between 6 and 9 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 achieving this goal.
The Simulation Department seeks 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 papers to the Departmental Editor either by electronic mail (in the form of self-contained TeX or LaTeX files with one file per paper) or by regular mail (with four hard copies of each paper):
Pierre L'Ecuyer
Département I.R.O.
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, H3C 3J7, CANADA
Telephone: (514) 343-2143
Email: lecuyer@iro.umontreal.ca
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
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by Barry L. Nelson, Area Editor
From January 1, 1995, there have been five submissions to the department; all are in review. Since the change in area editor there have been nine submissions: two of these have been rejected, one is in revision, and the average time to review has been five months.
The simulation department encourages submissions 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 form can be found in Volume 42, Number 5 (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.
Area Editor
Barry L. Nelson
Department of Industrial,
Welding and Systems Engineering
The Ohio State University
1971 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Voice: 614/292-0610
Fax: 614/292-7852
e-mail: nelsonb@random.eng.ohio-state.edu
Associate Editors
David Kelton, University of Minnesota
Mike Taaffe, University of Minnesota
Susan Sanchez, University of Missouri--St. Louis
Peter Haas, IBM Research Division
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Tuesday, 13 December 1994
Members Present: Doug Morrice, Sheldon Jacobson, Jim Swain, Joan Donohue, Neal Bengston, Steve Roberts, Bruce Schmeiser, Tom Schriber, Russell Barton, Jim Wilson, John Fowler, John Charnes, Enver Yücesan, Paul Sanchez, Antonio Pedrosa, Paul Auclair, Tom Schuppe, Jim Robinson, Chuck White, Robert G. Sargent, Arnie Buss, Gordon Clark, Dave Withers, Michael Fu, Sigrún Andradóttir, Dan Halpin, Simaan Abourijk, Susumu Morito, Barry L. Nelson, Marvin Nakayama, Yun Bae Kim, Ron Burt, Jeff Tew, David Kelton.
Nonmembers Present: Paul J. Fields, Frank Matejcik, Phil Farrington, Voratas Kachitvichyanuhtmd, Russell Cheng, Anne D. Henriksen, Michael P. Bailey, Jingsheng Shi, Deidre Williams, Laurie Travis-Taaffe, Bryan Denermeyer, Eric Savage, Chiahon Chien, Gordon Bliss, Mike Overstreet, Twan Vollebregt, Michael L. Deaton.
1. Dave Goldsman called the meeting to order at 5:25pm.
2. No introductions were made.
3. Doug Morrice summarized the minutes from the ORSA/TIMS Detroit meeting.
The report was approved.
4. Sheldon Jacobson gave the Treasurer's report.
5. Announcements were made for upcoming conferences: Dave Goldsman for INFORMS New Orleans and Russell Barton for the International TIMS meeting in Singapore.
6. Sheldon Jacobson gave a report on the Ph.D. colloquium. He announced that Enver Yucesan would chair the colloquium for the next two years.
7. John Charnes gave a report on the Newsletter.
8. Sigrún Andradóttir gave a report for the Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women. She reported that there were a total of 25 applications (22 women and 8 minorities) for awards and three awards were given.
9. Pierre L'Ecuyer gave a report for Management Science and Barry Nelson gave a report for Operations Research.
10. Steve Roberts gave a report on WSC 1994. He noted that at least 660 people had registered for the conference.
11. David Goldsman announced that Steve Roberts had won the distinguished service award and Richard Fujimoto had won the best paper award. Both were congratulated and thanked for their contributions to the field of simulation.
Old Business
1. A discussion was held on the TIMS/CS name change in light of the INFORMS merger. INFORMS has suggested that we call ourselves a ``section.'' Dave Goldsman suggested that we might consider a Newsletter vote on this issue. Lee Schruben made a motion to have a Newsletter vote on using the name ``INFORMS College on Simulation.'' The motion was seconded by Keebom Kang. After some discussion, a vote was taken and it was unanimous in favor of Lee's motion. Barry Nelson suggested that prior to the Newsletter vote that the Newsletter print positions on pros and cons of being called a ``college'' rather than a ``section.'' Jim Wilson agreed to write the pro position and Osman Balci will write on the con position.
2. A discussion of was held on the By-Law results. Dave Goldsman went over the following results:
(a) Secretary and Treasurer will henceforth be combined.
(b) Non-members of TIMS (and hence INFORMS) can be officers.
Jim Wilson asked when item (a) would go into effect. Dave Goldsman said it would go into effect after the next set of elections.
3. Dave Goldsman made a presentation on the possible outcomes for INFORMS and CS representation on the WSC Board. Steve Roberts explained the current structure of the WSC Board. He explained that as the TIMS/CS representative on the board, his proposal to the board was to maintain the status quo (i.e., a voting board member from INFORMS, a voting board member from CS, with INFORMS and CS bearing 1/7 of the financial responsibilities for the WSC conference, each). He said that his proposal had met with some resistance and might be voted on at the board meeting that evening. After some discussion it was clear that most supported the status quo position and Barry Nelson suggested that Steve
Roberts convey this sentiment to the WSC Board.
Jim Wilson thought that this could be separated into two issues:
(a) How many representatives from INFORMS and CS would sit on the board?
(b) How many votes would we get on the board and what would our financial share in the conference be?
Bob Sargent pointed out that the board has usually tried to do what was best for the conference. He thought that in the long run the (2/7) representation might prove to be problematic and that a (1/6) representation might be more acceptable to the other societies. Bruce Schmeiser said that he strongly supports the status quo because he views INFORMS and CS as two distinct organizations. David Kelton (the ORSA representative on the WSC board) supported Bruce's position. Lee Schruben argued that the members of CS should be given the right to vote on this issue in the Newsletter before we accept any vote by the WSC board against the status quo. Tom Schriber suggested that the issue be put on hold for at least one year. He, Barry Nelson, Steve Roberts, David Kelton, and Paul Auclair felt that in all fairness, the WSC board should put off any vote on this issue for at least one year since the issue had come up so recently and there were too many unknowns with the as-of-yet-incomplete merger of INFORMS. Dave Goldsman said that he thought the board was trying to be fair. He also said that he would express the concerns of the CS members in his address to the WSC board.
New Business
1. Dave Goldsman appointed Enver Yucesan to do the WSC Ph.D. colloquium for the next two years. Dave said that he would make other appointments for the Best Paper Award and Service Award committees. He would also appoint two more members to the Women and Underrepresented Minorities Committee.
2. The meeting was adjourned at 6:55pm.
Respectively submitted, Douglas Morrice, Secretary.
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To recognize individuals providing long-standing exceptional service to the simulation community, the INFORMS College on Simulation has established the Distinguished Service Award, which may be given no more often than annually to an individual. Sustained service to the simulation community should extend over 15-20 years or longer and be acquitted with distinction. The concept of service for this award does not include teaching or research contributions. Areas of volunteer services include but are not limited to:
Nominations for the Distinguished Service Award can be made by anyone and are made by sending a letter of nomination to the Chair of the Distinguished Service Award Committee by September 1, 1995.
Letters of nomination should identify and detail the areas of exceptional service, and include the actions and activities that make the nominee deserving of this award. If possible, the nominee's vita should be included with the nomination letter. The individual or individuals making the nomination have the primary responsibility of justifying why the nominee should receive this award. If given, the award will be presented December 4, 1995 in the opening session of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, in Washington D.C.
Nominations should be sent to:
A. Alan B. Pritsker
Pritsker Corporation
8910 Purdue Road, Suite 500
Indianapolis, IN 46268-1170
Phone: (317) 471-6501
Fax: (317) 471-6501
email: pritsker@pritsker.wintek.com
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The TIMS College on Simulation has presented the 1994 Distinguished Service Award to Stephen D. Roberts, Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. The presentation took place December 12, 1994 during the opening session of the Winter Simulation Conference, in Orlando.
The Award, first given in 1986, recognizes an individual ``...providing long-standing exceptional service to the simulation community ... acquitted with distinction.'' Professor Roberts is eminently qualified to receive such an award, given his long and impressive list of service activities to simulation.
Beginning as early as 1979, he served as a special editor of Simuletter on health-care systems, and his activities have continued unabated. He has served the Winter Simulation Conference with great time and energy, as Proceedings Editor in 1983, Program Chair in 1986, TIMS/CS representative to the Board of Directors since 1987, and Board Chair from 1987 to 1991. As part of his work as WSC Program Chair in 1986, he instituted the idea of Track Coordinators, without which the sustained growth and success of the WSC would probably not have been possible. An active member of ACM/SIGSIM, he served as Secretary/Treasurer from 1983 to 1987, and then Chair from 1987 to 1991. In addition to his WSC Board service to TIMS/CS, he has also served on the Outstanding Publication Award Committee. In 1984, he served as General Chair for the SCS Conference on Simulation in Health Care Delivery.
His service to journals is as impressive as his work with societies and conferences. A key player in tireless efforts to establish the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), he additionally served from 1990 to 1994 as an Area Editor, and continues on its Editorial Advisory Committee. He has also accumulated a total of 21 years' service as Associate Editor to Management Science, Simulation, and Simuletter.
In addition to service, Dr. Roberts has been an enthusiastic promoter of simulation through his teaching, work with graduate students, and research.
So it is with great pride that the award is presented to Steve Roberts this year, for truly exceptional, distinguished, and sustained service to the simulation community.
The members of the committee were Richard E. Nance, A. Alan B. Pritsker, and W. David Kelton serving as Chair.
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To recognize outstanding contributions to the simulation literature, The Institute of Management Sciences' College on Simulation annually sponsors an ``Outstanding Simulation Publication Award.'' Journal articles, proceedings articles, books, and monographs copyrighted in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 were eligible for the 1994 award that was presented in the Opening Session of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando. The Publication Award Committee consisted of Luc Devroye of McGill University, Paul Glasserman of Columbia University, and John Fowler of SEMATECH.
The Committee received a total of five nominations for the 1994 award. Serving as the Committee Chair, John Fowler presented the 1994 award to Richard Fujimoto of the Georgia Institute of Technology for his article entitled ``Parallel Discrete Event Simulation,'' which appeared in the Communications of the ACM, volume 33 (1990), pages 30--53.
The Committee made the following statement about this work:
``Parallel Discrete Event Simulation has been an active area of research since the mid 1970's. Professor Richard M. Fujimoto, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, is currently a leading researcher in parallel simulation. His survey article, ``Parallel Discrete Event Simulation'' published in the October, 1990 issue of the communications of the ACM, presents a comprehensive history and overview of this exciting field. The paper is, simply put, the best general exposition ever written on parallel simulation. It is now THE standard reference on parallel simulation and is cited in virtually every serious paper on the topic.
The article, which is written for a general audience, presents the key ideas in parallel simulation and assesses the (then) current state-of-the-art. The paper describes the author's careful experimental studies comparing the performance of optimistic and conservative approaches to parallel simulation and provides much insight into the workings of both approaches. In addition, the paper summarizes the author's own innovative algorithms that led him to one of the first demonstrations that significant speedups are possible using optimistic methods on non-trivial problems.
The TIMS College on Simulation is pleased to present its 1994 Outstanding Publication Award to Richard Fujimoto for an exceptionally clear exposition of the concepts and issues in parallel simulation.''
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Tuesday, 25 October 1994
Members Present: Diane Bischak, Dave Goldsman, Dean Hartley, Bob Sargent, Jeff Tew
Nonmembers Present: Johan Denecke, Teun Ott, Milton Pope
1. Dave Goldsman called the meeting to order at 5:51 P.M.
2. Introductions were made around the room.
3. Dave Goldsman summarized the minutes from the Boston TIMS/ORSA meeting, which were approved.
4. Dave Goldsman read the Treasurer's Report. The report was approved.
5. Dave Goldsman read the Vice President's report on sponsored sessions which indicated that there were only two for the Detroit conference. This report was approved.
6. Dave Goldsman read the Newsletter Editor's report.
7. Dave Goldsman announced the call for applicants for WSC stipends from the Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women and that there were 10 applicants for these stipends.
8. Dave Goldsman led a discussion on the TIMS/CS name change and suggested that the name of the College be changed to "INFORMS College on Simulation" which was met with general approval and strongly supported by Bob Sargent. Dave also pointed out that we "cannot be called a society because INFORMS says we are not big enough" for society status.
9. Dave Goldsman led the discussion on the summer vote by the College on changes to the By-Laws. Dave indicated that there has been some confusion on the combined office of Secretary and Treasurer. Bob Sargent felt strongly that we should have officers as members of INFORMS in order to receive credibility. Dave also indicated that INFORMS will send to TIMS/CS suggested By-Laws, but that there will be no pressure to adopt them. Dave also proposed that further discussion on By-Laws be tabled until December meeting of the TIMS/CS at WSC in Orlando.
10. Dave Goldsman led the discussion on complications arising from the creation of INFORMS and indicated that it appears that the only problem is with WSC representation. Bob Sargent explained the current structure of WSC. Dave indicated that he would like to solicit comments from TIMS/CS members and defer any decision until the December meeting of the TIMS/CS at WSC in Orlando. This was met with general approval.
11. Dean Hartley suggested that there was some confusion about sub-group representation with INFORMS. It has been suggested by INFORMS that not every sub-group report to the board, but that another layer be put in place and sub-groups be "grouped" together. Dave Goldsman suggested that further discussion on this also be delayed until the December meeting of the TIMS/CS at WSC in Orlando.
12. The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 P.M. and discussion continued over refreshments.
Respectfully submitted by Jeff Tew for Doug Morrice
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by David Kelton, Area Editor, March 10, 1995
In a little over the past year (since February 19, 1994) there have been 7 new papers submitted, 2 accepted, 4 rejected, and 1 withdrawn. Currently there are 8 papers in various stages of the reviewing and revision process.
Of particular note to the simulation community is the appearance of 7 papers in a special simulation "cluster" in the last issue of 1994.
Associate Editors for the Simulation Area are Osman Balci, Gordon Clark, and David Nicol. During the past year, Mike Overstreet completed his term as Associate Editor as well.
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
Fax: (612) 626--1316
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The past two decades have seen a rapid increase of interest in computer simulation in many fields of IE research and practice. Once regarded as perhaps too computationally intensive for wide application, simulation use has been fueled by rapid advances in computing capabilities, and decreases in cost. Likewise, software for simulation has become a substantial industry, with dramatic improvements in capability, speed, and usability. In fact, simulation has become an essential component of many projects, including not only the design of systems but also improving their ongoing operation.
Although hardware and software developments have made simulation far more accessible, there remain challenges to the effective use of simulation and its ultimate impact. Accordingly, intense interest has developed in researching many subjects surrounding the use of simulation, particularly in IE contexts. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight simulation research, as well as illustrate how practice has both benefited from and motivated research.
Submission of papers on all aspects of simulation in IE research and practice is encouraged, including (but not limited to):
We are targeting publication in December 1996, and will implement special review procedures to meet that goal. We must also rely on authors to submit papers and revise them in a timely manner.
All papers will be thoroughly refereed. Papers should conform to the Position Statements for IIE Transactions on IE Research (May 1993 issue) and comply with the Instructions for Authors on the inside back cover of any issue. Please submit papers as soon as possible, but no later than August 1, 1995, to either of the Guest Editors:
David Goldsman
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA
Phone: (404) 894-2365
Fax: (404) 894-2301
e-mail: dkelton@msi.umn.edu
Associate Editors contributing to the preparation of this special issue are Christos Alexopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sigrun Andradottir (University of Wisconsin), Russell Barton (Pennsylvania State University), Michael Fu (University of Maryland), Keebom Kang (Naval Postgraduate School), Bruce Schmeiser (Purdue University), Andrew Seila (University of Georgia), Michael Taaffe (Northwestern University, on sabbatical from the University of Minnesota), and Peter Welch (IBM).
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Tuesday, April 25, 1995
Members and Nonmembers Present: ChunHung Chen, Bruce C. Shultes, Sheldon Jacobson, Marvin Nakayama, Paul Clark, Milton Pope, M. Shahidmujtaba, Dean Hartley, Ricki Ingalls, David Munoz, Christos Alexopoulos, Sigrun Andradottir, Keebom Kang, Bruce Schmeiser, Paul Auclair, Mark Lipnick, David Goldsman, Douglas Morrice
Old Business
1. Bruce Schmeiser gave a report on the WSC Board representation issue under the new INFORMS structure. INFORMS has decided to withdraw from being a financial sponsor of the WSC after the 1995 conference. Hereafter, the College on Simulation will resume one sixth of the financial responsibility for the WSC conference. The only remaining issue is voting representation on the WSC board. Steven Roberts is the current College on Simulation representative. David Kelton is the ORSA (or INFORMS) representative. We need to decide whether or not we should keep two representatives on the board.
New Business
1. David Goldsman talked about Jim Wilson's motion concerning Fellows of the College. David will set up a committee of three people up to study this issue.
2. David Goldsman reported on Peter Welch's work on the College on Simulation WWW home page. He described the current setup and the future plans for the page. A motion was made by Dean Hartley to make Peter Welch the Web Master. This motion was seconded by Christos Alexopoulus. The vote was unanimous.
3. Douglas Morrice reported on nominations of Subdivision Representatives for the election of Division Representatives to the INFORMS Board of Directors.
4. Bruce Schmeiser suggested that we consider raising our College on Simulation dues from $2.00 to $5.00 or $10.00 because our surplus has been shrinking over the past few years. It was agreed that we should have a more extensive discussion on this issue at the fall meeting in New Orleans.
5. The meeting was adjourned at 6:35pm.
Respectively submitted, Douglas Morrice, Secretary
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The College of Simulation of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has a Discrete Event Simulation World Wide Web (WWW) Page.
Its URL is http://www.isye.gatech.edu/informs-sim/
This page was constructed by Peter Welch (with a little help from his friends), Research Staff Member Emeritus at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center welch@watson.ibm.com.
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For the period 8/11/94 to 3/8/95, the INFORMS College on Simulation had the following transactions at the NBC Bank (Blacksburg, VA).
Balance Forward $19,865.17 Revenues Money Market Account Interest $490.37 Advertisement in Spring 1994 Newsletter $180.00 New Member Dues $13.00 Total Revenues $683.37 Disbursements Fall 94 Newsletter $782.91 Refreshments, Detroit ORSA/TIMS $110.53 WSC 95 Seed Money $2,000.00 Best Paper and Service Award Plaques $85.58 Best Paper Award Expenses $500.00 WSC 94 Min. & Wom. $803.68 WSC 94 Ph.D. Coll.1 $560.00 Bank Charges $21.00 WSC 94 Ph.D. Coll. Refreshments $189.21+ WSC 94 Bus. Mtg. Refreshments $271.32+ Total Disbursements (without +) $4,863.70 Net (Revenue-Disbursements) ($4,180.33) Balance Forward $15,684.84
+ Billed directly through the INFORMS office.
In addition to the above funds, the College has on account at INFORMS $1,960.32 (2/8/95), bringing the net worth of the INFORMS/CS to $17,645.16.
Respectfully Submitted, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Treasurer
3/14/95
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To recognize outstanding contributions to the simulation literature, the INFORMS College on Simulation annually sponsors an Outstanding Simulation Publication Award. Nominations for the 1995 Award should be sent by August 1, 1995 to the Awards Committee Chair:
Prof. Paul Glasserman
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
403 Uris Hall
New York, NY 10027
(212)8544102 (O)
(212)3169180 (F)
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Name Affiliation E-Mail Address
Simaan 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 Naval Postgraduate School mike@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@evax0.eng.fsu.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 healy@orie.cornell.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. 5030p@navpgs.bitnet
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) morito@morito.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp
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@random.eng.ohio-state.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@syr.edu
Eric Savage Cornell University savage@orie.cornell.edu
Bruce Schmeiser Purdue schmeise@ecn.purdue.edu
Tom Schriber Michigan schriber@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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