Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. George Fishman’s Professional Career

   • Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, James R. Wilson

   Pages 1-19

3. A Conversation with George Fishman

   • Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, James R. Wilson

   Pages 21-42

4. Computer Intensive Statistical Model Building

   • Russell Cheng

   Pages 43-63

5. Patchwork Distributions

   • Soumyadip Ghosh, Shane G. Henderson

   Pages 65-86

6. Asymptotic Validity of Batch Means Steady-State Confidence Intervals

   • Peter W. Glynn, Eunji Lim

   Pages 87-104

7. Efficient Modeling of Delays in Discrete-Event Simulation

   • James O. Henriksen

   Pages 105-141

8. Sampling from Linear Multivariate Densities

   • Wolfgang Hörmann, Josef Leydold

   Pages 143-151

9. Factor Screening in Simulation Experiments: Review of Sequential Bifurcation

   • Jack P. C. Kleijnen

   Pages 153-167

10. F2-Linear Random Number Generators

    • Pierre L’Ecuyer, François Panneton

    Pages 169-193

11. Opportunities and Challenges in Health Care Simulation

    • Andrew F. Seila, Sally Brailsford

    Pages 195-229

12. Future Trends in Distributed Simulation and Distributed Virtual Environments

    • Steffen Straßburger, Thomas Schulze, Richard Fujimoto

    Pages 231-261

13. Combined Screening and Selection of the Best with Control Variates

    • Shing Chih Tsai, Barry L. Nelson, Jeremy Staum

    Pages 263-289

14. Optimal Linear Combinations of Overlapping Variance Estimators for Steady-State Simulation

    • Tûba Aktaran-Kalaycı, Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, James R. Wilson

    Pages 291-328

15. Back Matter

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This Festschrift honors George Samuel Fishman, one of the founders of the eld of computer simulation and a leader of the disciplines of operations research and the management sciences for the past ve 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 m- agement sciences, with special emphasis on his role in the advancement of the eld of simulation since the 1960s. We also include a brief personal biography together with comments by several individuals about the extraordinary effect that George has had on all his students, colleagues, and friends. Thesecondarticle,titled“AConversationwithGeorgeFishman,”isthetranscript of an extended interview with George that we conducted in October 2007. In the article titled “Computer Intensive Statistical Model Building,” Russell Cheng studies resampling methods for building parsimonious multiple linear regr- sion models so as to represent accurately the behavior of the dependent variable in terms of the smallest possible subset of explanatory (independent) variables. The author shows how bootstrap resampling can be used not only for rapid identi cation of good models but also for ef cient comparison of competing models.

• Monte Carlo methods
• Operations Research
• Simulation
• discrete-event simulation
• random number generation
• simulation applications
• simulation modeling
• simulation output analysis
• simulation support systems

• School of Industrial &, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.

  Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman

• Dept. Industrial & Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, U.S.A.

  James R. Wilson

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