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Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation

A Festschrift in Honor of George Samuel Fishman

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Christos Alexopoulos

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

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  2. David Goldsman

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

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  3. James R. Wilson

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

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  • Individual papers honoring one of the most important and influential careers in Operations Research
  • An important look at the origins and advances in computer simulation
  • Includes a professional biography and personal interview
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 133)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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

    Pages 1-1
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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