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President's Message
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Treasurer's Report
Minutes of Business Meetings
Julian Reitman Receives Lifetime Professional Achievement Award
David Kelton Receives Distinguished Service Award
Fu and Hu Receive 1998 Outstanding Publication Award
Call for Papers: IIE Special Issue in Honor of Alan Pritsker
Workshop on Mathematical Finance
Journal Editor Reports
Retirement Workshop for George Lea
James R. Wilson Establishes Simulation Archive
INFORMS Cincinnati: May 2-5, 1999
INFORMS Fall 1999 Meeting, Philadelphia

Event Calendar

INFORMS Journal on Computing
Management Science
Operations Research

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The INFORMS Fall 1999 Meeting will be held in Philadelphia November 7-10. Philadelphia offers many attractions, including the Philadelphia, Rodin, and Barnes Museums of Art, the Franklin Institute, the waterfront and the Camden Aquarium, and Independence Hall. To organize a session, or to indicate your interest in giving a talk at the conference, simply fill out and submit the enclosed form
or contact Chun-Hung Chen, Simulation Cluster Chair, or John Charnes, College Vice President:

John Charnes
Vice-President, Informs College on Simulation
School of Business
222 Summerfield Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS USA

Chun-Hung Chen
Simulation Cluster Chair
INFORMS Philadelphia Meeting
Department of Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA USA

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Increase your visibility and networking opportunities by experiencing ìDelivering to the Global Consumer,î INFORMS Spring National Meeting, to be held in Cincinnati on May 2-5, 1999. See us on the web at . Take advantage of special expanded program offerings made possible by the generous support of Procter & Gamble. Benefit from finding out what others in your field are doing. Keep abreast of the latest trends and obtain practical advice and tips for use in your job. Access employers. You may register directly on the web, or obtain the necessary forms by contacting INFORMS at or , fax , email . The preliminary program, meeting registration and hotel reservation information are available on-line at http://www.informs.org/Conf/Cincinnati99/. While there won't be a preliminary meeting program mailed with OR/MS Today, a printed final program with 1500+ abstracts will be distributed at the conference. The Cincinnati meeting has many interesting sessions for simulationists; a selection is listed below:

SA05 Efficiency of Simulations
SB05 Simulation Output Analysis
SB27 Queues: Theoretical & Applied Approaches
SC05 Selection Procedures in Simulation
ST05 Tutorial: Trends & Topics in Process Modeling & Simulation
MA05 Simulation I
MA08 Manufacturing Simulation Applications
MC05 Simulation II
MC09 Java-Based Simulation Modeling
MC11 Ground Attrition Modeling: Practice

Tom Magnanti, President, INFORMS

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The College on Simulation has obtained some "extra" Proceedings from various Winter Simulation Conferences (). As a public service, we will send a Proceedings to certain organizations at no charge. Such organizations might include domestic or foreign libraries or schools that would not normally have enough funding to otherwise obtain the Proceedings. If you know of a worthy organization in need of a Proceedings, please send a note (along with a quick justification for your request) to: Dave Goldsman, School of ISyE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332,/2301 (O/F), .

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By Chun-Hung Chen, Simulation Cluster Chair

The INFORMS Fall 1999 Meeting will be held in Philadelphia November 7-10. Philadelphia offers many attractions, including the Philadelphia, Rodin, and Barnes Museums of Art, the Franklin Institute, the waterfront and the Camden Aquarium, and Independence Hall. Also, New York City and Washington, D.C. are only 1 and 1.75 hours away by train. I am the chair of the simulation cluster and I would like to invite you to organize invited sessions. If you are interested, please follow the timeline given below. Also, see the message on electronic submission. Thank you for your attention and hope to see you then.

10/23/98 send me an email indicating your intention to organize invited sessions and the potential topics/areas in your sessions. No details are needed at this point.
<1/15/99 send me the final version of the information about your invited sessions, including the title, authors, a short abstract (less than 50 words) for each paper. Chun-Hung Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Tel: Fax: Email:

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The INFORMS College on Simulation (ICS) is proud to announce a new feature just added to the ICS web site: An online form for submitting information relating to ICS-sponsored sessions or talks to be given at INFORMS national meetings.

As an ICS member, you are hereby invited to organize a session to be sponsored by ICS. To do so, point your web browser to the form at the web address above, click the "Organize a session" radio button and put the session information (names of speakers, titles of talks, and 50-word abstracts) in the "Abstract" box of the form. You may also contact me directly at the address on the front of the newsletter to supply the session information. Note that the on-line form also allows you to submit information for an individual talk you would like to present in a sponsored session at the conference. Click on the "Give a talk" radio button, supply the requested information, and submit the form.

We hope you find this form and the rest of the College website useful, and look forward to receiving your input. This form is presently at version 0.1, and changes will be made to it as found necessary. Please send e-mail to Peter Welch () with your suggestions for improvement of the form, or other aspects of the ICS web site.

John Charnes
Vice-President, Informs College on Simulation

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