Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation A Festschrift in Honor of Geor
This Festschrift honors George Samuel Fishman, one of the founders of the field of computer simulation and a leader in the disciplines of operations research and management science for the past five decades. The papers in this volume span the theory, meth
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Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation A Festschrift in Honor of George Samuel Fishman Christos Alexopoulos David Goldsman James R. Wilson Editors
International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
Volume 133
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George Samuel Fishman
Christos Alexopoulos · David Goldsman · James R. Wilson Editors
Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation A Festschrift in Honor of George Samuel Fishman With Contributions by Russell Cheng, Soumyadip Ghosh, Shane G. Henderson, Peter W. Glynn, Eunji Lim, James O. Henriksen, Wolfgang H¨ormann, Josef Leydold, Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Pierre L’Ecuyer, Franc¸ois Panneton, Andrew F. Seila, Sally Brailsford, Steffen Straßburger, Thomas Schulze, Richard Fujimoto, Shing Chih Tsai, Barry L. Nelson, Jeremy Staum, Tˆuba Aktaran-Kalaycı
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Editors Christos Alexopoulos Georgia Institute of Technology H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering 765 Ferst Drive NW Atlanta GA 30332-0205 USA [email protected]
David Goldsman Georgia Institute of Technology H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering 765 Ferst Drive NW Atlanta GA 30332-0205 USA [email protected]
James R. Wilson Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering North Carolina State University 111 Lampe Drive Raleigh NC 27695-7906 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0884-8289 ISBN 978-1-4419-0816-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0817-9 DOI 10.1007/b110059 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009932145 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This Festschrift honors George Samuel Fishman, one of the founders of the field of computer simulation and a leader of the disciplines of operations research and the management sciences for the past five decades, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The papers in this volume span the theory, methodology, and application of computer simulation. The lead article is appropriately titled “George Fishman’s Professional Career.” In this article we discuss George’s contributions to operations research and the management sciences, with special emphasis on his role in the advancement of the field of
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