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INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Officers President Bahar Biller Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA (412) 268-2268 [email protected]/ Vice President Seong-Hee Kim H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 (404) 894-4551 [email protected] http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~skim Secretary Young-Jun Son Systems and Industrial Engineering The University of Arizona (520) 626-9530 [email protected] http://www.sie.arizona.edu/faculty/son Treasurer John Shortle Systems Engineering and Operations Research George Mason University 4400 University Dr., MS 4A6 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (703) 993-3571 [email protected] http://mason.gmu.edu/~jshortle/ Newsletter Editor Theresa Roeder Department of Decision Sciences San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-1722 (415) 405-2423 [email protected] Associate Newsletter Editor Enlu Zhou Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA (217) 333-8024 [email protected]
President’s Message Bahar Biller Greetings! I am happy to report that we remain a vibrant and active society. This is supported by the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting, where I-Sim had a strong presence with 47 presentations in 14 sponsored sessions. I-Sim also co-sponsored the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, which was held in Berlin, Germany this past December. As always, the Winter Simulation Conference featured a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials and a hands-on introductory workshop to state-of-the-art research and practice. It was an excellent venue for our community to continue its effort in promoting and advancing simulation modeling, analysis, and applications worldwide. I-Sim was again one of the co-sponsors of the PhD Colloquium, which involved 28 student presentations with a keynote talk by Professor Adelinde Uhrmacher from the University of Rostock. It is important to note that 17 students were provided with travel support to attend the conference. Special thanks go to Professor Michael Fu, Professor Russell Barton, and Professor Sheldon Jacobson for making this possible. Business meetings were held during both the INFORMS Annual Meeting in October and the Winter Simulation Conference in December. I-Sim honored the following colleagues for their major contributions to our community in the Winter Simulation Conference business meeting: • Professor Donald L. Iglehart − Lifetime Professional Achievement Award. • Professor Jeffrey S. Smith − Distinguished Service Award. • Professor L. Jeff Hong and Professor Guangwu Liu − Outstanding
Publication Award. Other honorees included CUMW Award recipients Marlies de Keizer (Wageningen University), Kara A. Olson (Old Dominion University), and Roy L. Hayes Jr. (University of Virginia), and Best Student Paper Award winner Chang-han Rhee (Stanford University). You can find the photos and full award citations on the I-Sim website. Around the time of Winter Simulation Conference, we suffered the loss of two members of our society: Professor Jerry Banks and Professor Reuven Rubinstein. I would like to thank Professor Dave Goldsman and Professor Soren Asmussen for helping us remember the invaluable contributions of Professor Jerry Banks and Professor Reuven Rubinstein to the field of simulation with their presentations at the Winter Simulation Conference
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INFORMS Simulation Society Newsletter is published in the Spring and Fall of each year by the INFORMS Simulation Society. Membership in the Simulation Society is independent of membership in Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The annual membership fee for non-INFORMS members is $20.00; INFORMS members may join for $10.00. The fee for students and retired members who are also members of INFORMS is $5.00.
To join, call 1-800-4-INFORM (1-800-446-3676) (from the USA) or (+1) 443-757-3500 (from outside the USA). Or point your web browser to http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/Join-Us. Or contact the secretary, whose email address information appears on the front cover. Please pass along this announcement to others who might be interested in joining. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to INFORMS Simulation Society Newsletter, 7240 Parkway Drive, Suite 310, Hanover, MD 21076.
INFORMS Simulation Society Newsletter © 2013 The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved.
Contents President’s Message ......................... 1 Society Officers ............................... 1 Editor’s Corner................................. 3 Treasurer’s Report ........................... 3 Secretary’s Corner ........................... 3 LPAA Call for Nominations ............ 4 DSA Call for Nominations ............... 5 Outstanding Publication Call for
Nominations ............................... 5 Ph.D. Colloquium/Poster Session
Call for Nominations .................. 6 2012 LPAA ...................................... 7 2012 DSA ........................................ 8 2012 Outstanding Simulation
Publication Award ...................... 8 2012 CUMW Award ........................ 9 2012 WSC Best Paper Awards ........ 9 2012 Best Student Papers ................. 9 2013 INFORMS Healthcare
Meeting .................................... 10 2013 EURO-INFORMS Joint
International Meeting ............... 10 2013 INFORMS Annual Meeting .. 11 2013 Winter Simulation
Conference ............................... 11 Editor Reports - Journal on Computing ................... 11 Operations Research ...................... 12 ACM-TOMACS .............................. 12 IIE Transactions............................. 13 Journal of Simulation ..................... 14 Report on the Simulation Archive .. 14 Event Calendar ............................... 15 INFORMS Simulation Society
Business Meeting Minutes, INFORMS Annual Conf. .......... 16
INFORMS Simulation Society Business Meeting Minutes, Winter Simulation Conf. ........... 18
I-Sim Ballot .................................... 22 Candidate Biographies ................... 23
Please pass along printouts of the newsletter to friends and colleagues, or let them know about the INFORMS
Simulation Society Web page. You’ll get more than just a newsletter. Its URL is
http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society
This web page is designed to be a general source of information and WWW links for the simulation community, with a particular focus on society interests and activities. There are often additional special items, such as the Winter Simulation Conference and upcoming INFORMS conferences.
business meeting. In the upcoming months, I-Sim will be sponsoring sessions at the INFORMS Healthcare 2013 Meeting in Chicago, IL (June 23 - 26). The 2013 I-Sim Research Workshop will be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, based on the theme of “Simulation for Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Large Scale Systems” (August 12 - 14) under the leadership of Professor Christos Alexopoulos, Professor Sigrun Andradottir, Professor David Goldsman, and Professor Seong-Hee Kim. Planning has also started for the 2013 INFORMS Fall Meeting and the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference. We are looking forward to your support and participation in making these events successful. I encourage you to vote in the election of new I-Sim Council Members. You can find the voting instructions, along with a description of the candidates in this newsletter. I also hope that you will help the awards committees by nominating candidates for the 2013 I-Sim awards. Please feel free to contact me with any ideas and suggestions for improving I-Sim. I look forward to seeing you at upcoming I-Sim events.
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Editor’s Corner Theresa Roeder Enlu and I are happy to bring you the Spring 2013 edition of the I-Sim newsletter, Volume 37. In addition to reports by the Treasurer and Secretary, you can find calls for award nominations and citations for our 2012 winners, as well as upcoming events. Meeting minutes
from the business meetings at INFORMS and the Winter Simulation Conference and the I-Sim “voting package” are at the end of the newsletter. All information is also available at our web site, http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society. If you have any ideas for web site content, please feel free to contact us. We would love to make the site a vibrant part of our community.
INFORMS Simulation Society Treasurer’s Report John Shortle
Unaudited Retained Earnings Statement for January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012
Notes:
• An explanation of the $22.735.76 reversal is given in the Fall 2012 newsletter. In addition, $20,750 remains in the I-SIM account and belongs to the liability account shared by all 4 WSC sponsors.
• National meeting expense includes the business meeting at INFORMS and travel expenses of the sub-divisions council representative. Local meeting expense includes the business meeting at WSC and the Ph.D. colloquium lunch.
The subdivision payment ($10K) is a transfer to the I-SIM local checking account from which WSC awards are given (lifetime professional achievement award, distinguished service award, etc.). Presenters at the Ph.D. colloquium are also given a reimbursement for registration. This amount was higher than in previous years due to the increased registration fee at WSC Berlin for colloquium presenters ($425/presenter). The local checking account retains the excess of this transfer and will have a balance of $3,775.10 after all checks have cleared from WSC 2012.
Secretary’s Corner
Young-Jun Son As of 3/31/13, the Society has 471 members. We have 11 members who have kept their I-Sim membership since 1976! There are 131 international members with highest non-US numbers from Canada, followed by UK and Netherlands. There are 83 new members who joined I-SIM on or after 1/1/2013. Welcome! As member, you get discount on registration for conferences sponsored by the I-Sim Society, which
includes Winter Simulation Conference. If your membership expires soon, please do not forget to renew your membership. You can renew your membership online at http://renew.informs.org. While you are at the web site, please have time to check your information and update it if there has been any change. If you are not a current member and want to join I-Sim, please visit http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/Join-Us.
Beginning balance (1/1/12) 95,221.16$
Total revenue 9,485.89$ Dues 4,945.00$ WSC sponsorship surplus, 2011 11,742.88$ WSC sponsorship surplus, 2012 15,533.77$ Reverse entry (from 2008) (22,735.76)$
Total expenses (15,065.71)$ National meeting expense (INFORMS) (2,153.03)$ Local meeting expense (WSC) (2,470.42)$ Bank fees (357.51)$ Subdivision payment (WSC awards) (10,000.00)$ Awards - plaques (84.75)$
Net gain / loss (5,579.82)$
Ending balance (12/31/12) 89,641.34$
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Call for Nominations: Lifetime Professional Achievement Award Barry L. Nelson The Lifetime Professional Achievement Award (LPAA) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society is the highest honor given by the Society. The purpose of this award is to recognize major contributions to the field of simulation that are sustained over a professional career, with the critical consideration being the total impact of those contributions on computer simulation. Past recipients are George Fishman, Donald Iglehart, Jack Kleijnen, Averill Law, Peter Lewis, Richard Nance, Alan Pritsker, Julian Reitman, Reuven Rubinstein, Robert Sargent, and Thomas Schriber. An individual’s contributions may fall in one or more of the areas listed below:
• Research: Dissemination of Knowledge • Service to the Simulation Profession • Practice: Development of Hardware or Software • Advancement of the Status or Visibility of the
Field A nominee is not expected to demonstrate contributions in each area. A full description of the Award Rules can be found at http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/Awards/Lifetime-Professional-Achievement-Award/LPAA-Rules. The annual award consists of a plaque, a $1000 cash prize, and reasonable travel expenses incurred by the
recipient when attending the presentation ceremony. If given, the award will be presented in December during the opening session of the Winter Simulation Conference. An individual selected for this award should normally be in or near their retirement; the award may also be given posthumously. Nominations may be submitted in the form of pdf files by anyone (including self-nominations), but they may not be made anonymously. The burden of offering evidence of merit falls on the nominator. Each nomination should include:
• The nominee’s complete resume • A clear-cut, comprehensive description of the
nominee’s major contributions to the profession, with complete supporting documentation
• At least three letters of endorsement providing evidence of the significance and magnitude of the nominee’s professional achievements
Nominations for this award must be received by the Chair of the LPAA Selection Committee by no later than September 1, 2013. Please send complete nominations, including all supporting letters and documentation (if possible in the form of pdf files attached to a single e-mail), to the Committee Chair. The LPAA Selection Committee consists of: Barry L. Nelson ([email protected]), Chair Sigrun Andradóttir Susan Sanchez
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Call for Nominations: Distinguished Service Award Pierre L’Ecuyer To recognize individuals who have provided longstanding, exceptional service to the simulation community, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Simulation Society (INFORMS-Sim, https://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/) has established its Distinguished Service Award, which may be given to at most one person annually. Sustained service to the simulation community should extend over a period of 15 to 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 service include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Elected offices in simulation societies; 2. Editorial responsibilities for simulation such as area
editor and editor-in-chief; 3. Conference responsibilities involving simulation
such as program chair, proceedings editor, general chair, and membership in the organizing or program committee;
4. Appointed positions for simulation-related activities such as serving on committees and being a newsletter editor; and
5. Undertakings and actions that promote simulation in the “larger community.”
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 award selection committee by September 1, 2013, by email. Letters of nomination should identify the nominee's areas of exceptional service, detailing the activities for which the nominee is believed to deserve this award. The nominee's current vita must be included with the nomination letter. The individual(s) making the nomination have the primary responsibility for justifying why the nominee should receive this award. If given, the award will be presented in December at the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference in Washington, DC: www.wintersim.org. A list of past winners of the award can be found at http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/Awards/Distinguished-Service-Award/Winners. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Distinguished Service Award Committee:
Pierre L’Ecuyer DIRO, Université de Montréal [email protected] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/
Call for Nominations: Outstanding Simulation Publication Award Marvin Nakayama To recognize outstanding contributions to the simulation literature, the INFORMS Simulation Society annually sponsors an Outstanding Simulation Publication Award. Nominations for the award to be given in 2013 should be sent by September 1, 2013, to the Awards Committee Chair:
Marvin Nakayama New Jersey Institute of Technology [email protected]
The other committee members are Pierre L’Ecuyer and Dave Goldsman.
Anyone is eligible to win the award. Journal articles, proceedings articles, books, book chapters, and monographs copyrighted in 2010, 2011, and 2012 and written in English are eligible for the award. Technical reports, research memoranda, working papers, theses, and dissertations are not eligible. Nominations for the
award may be made by anyone, including the author(s), but they may not be made anonymously. Nominations should include:
• a copy of the written work, including all bibliographical information (in the case of books, the Awards Committee will obtain copies);
• a short statement suitable for reading at the award ceremony if the work is chosen; and
• any other information thought relevant by the nominator.
If given, the Outstanding Simulation Publication Award will be presented at the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference in Washington, DC. The Award carries with it a cash prize of $500. A list of previous winners is available at the web site: http://www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society/Awards/Best-Simulation-Publication-Award/Winners.
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Call for Participation: Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session Sponsored by the ACM-SIGSIM and I-Sim Societies Nurcin Celik The PhD Colloquium addresses PhD students that are within one year of their graduation (planning to graduate by Dec. 2014). Students close to graduation will be given an opportunity to showcase their work during a short presentation session in the Colloquium (apart from the regular tracks). All Colloquium students will then participate in the Colloquium Poster Session. Presenting your PhD efforts to your peers and supporting society members will give you valuable feedback, support your research with additional ideas and parallel ongoing work, and introduces you to a network that can be very helpful with your career once you graduate. The PhD Colloquium will be conducted on Sunday, 8 December 2013 starting with lunch.
The keynote speech for the Ph.D. Colloquium will be given by Dr. Frederica Darema, a member of the Senior Executive Service and Director of Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences at Air Force Office of Scientific
Research in Arlington, Virginia. There are three options to participate in the PhD Colloquium with different benefits: 1. Poster Only: Submit your work as a poster with 2-page extended abstract, get accepted, and you will have a good reason to come to the WSC 2013. Note: Students who showcase their work as a
poster in regular WSC poster sessions are not eligible to participate in Colloquium (and vice versa). Hence, one should select to participate in either the regular poster session or the Colloquium (not both).
Benefit 1: Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim provide a complimentary one-year membership.
2. Poster and Presentation: Submit a presentation in addition to your poster; get accepted, then Benefit 1: Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim
provide a complimentary one-year membership. Benefit 2: ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will
reimburse their conference registration fee. Benefit 3: You will be eligible to participate in the
PhD lunch.
3. Poster, Presentation, and Full Paper: Submit a full paper to a regular track in addition to the poster and presentation; get accepted, then Benefit 1: Both ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim
provide a complimentary one-year membership. Benefit 2: ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will
reimburse their conference registration fee. Benefit 3: You will be eligible to participate in the
PhD lunch. Benefit 4: ACM-SIGSIM and INFORMS-Sim will
each award a Best Ph.D. Student Paper prize among those final year students making a presentation at both the Ph.D. Colloquium and the conference. Those who have a full paper on a regular track will be eligible for these awards.
Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session Committee Chair: Nurcin Celik, PhD, University of Miami, INFORMS-Sim Members: Mamadou Seck, PhD, Delft University of Technology, ACM SIGSIM Esfand Mazhari, PhD, Fedex, INFORMS-Sim Andreas Tolk, PhD, Old Dominion University, ACM SIGSIM Additional Information about the Colloquium Poster preparation guidelines: You will be provided a 4 feet high and 8 feet wide bulletin board. We recommend that you use approximately 4 feet X 6 feet of space for your display. There is no requirement that you fill the board. Your poster should cover the main points of your work and be as self-explanatory as possible. However, you should participate in the evening event when the posters are presented, as peers and society members will have additional questions. Even when you gave a presentation, the poster session is always a great opportunity to talk about details, discuss relevant related research, and bond with fellow PhD students. Presentations: If you submit a student paper for the conference you can use your presentation for the PhD colloquium as well as for the track presentation. You may need to edit the
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slides a little bit, as we may be more time constraint, but you do not have to present something special in the PhD colloquium that cannot used in the regular sessions. Confirmations: Final year students who wish to take part in the presentation session should have their thesis advisor send an email to the Colloquium Chair at [email protected] before August 19, 2013 stating that the student: a) is within one year of graduation, b) is the main author of the submission, and c) will participate in the Ph.D. Colloquium. Student Papers: Student papers are part of the regular conference and fall under the submission and review guidelines as
documented on the WSC website http://www.wintersim.org. If you have an accepted paper at the WSC 2013 and would like to participate in the Ph.D. colloquium as well, please send a short note with the details of the accepted paper to the Colloquium Chair at [email protected] before August 19, 2013. Important Deadlines
Contributed Paper Submission D dli
April 1, 2013 Contributed Paper Acceptance
June 1, 2013
Final Contributed Papers Due July 15, 2013 Poster Submission Deadline August 19, 2013 Poster Acceptance Notification October 4, 2013 Conference Dec. 8-11, 2013
Donald Iglehart Receives 2012 Lifetime Professional Achievement Award Barry Nelson
The Lifetime Professional Achievement Award is the highest honor given by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences’ Simulation Society. The purpose of the award is to recognize major contributions to the field of simulation that are sustained over a professional career involving, some combination of
• Research and Dissemination of Knowledge; • Service to the Profession; • Practice; and • Advancement of the Status or Visibility of the
Field.
The award committee, consisting of Reuven Rubenstein, Averill Law and me, are please to present the 2012 Lifetime Professional Achievement Award to Donald Iglehart, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Don is being honored for his foundational work on recognizing and exploiting the underlying stochastic structure of simulation as a means of producing enhanced simulation methodologies; for his ability to clearly organize and articulate deep theory in his presentations and writing; and for educating Ph.D. students who have had, individually and cumulatively, a profound impact on simulation education and research. It is no exaggeration to say that Don Iglehart’s contributions made simulation a respectable research discipline in some circles of the operations research community. Don is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a winner of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, and a Fellow of INFORMS and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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Jeffrey Smith Receives 2012 Distinguished Service Award Pete Welch
The INFORMS Simulation Society is pleased to recognize Jeffery S. Smith with its Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award, given at most once a year, was established "to recognize individuals
who have provided long-standing, exceptional service to the simulation community." The award was presented during the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, held in Berlin, Germany. The Selection Committee consisted of past awardees Preston White, Pierre L'Ecuyer, and Peter Welch. Jeffrey Smith has rendered outstanding service to the international simulation community through his work with the Winter Simulation Conference. Moreover through his leadership in the area of manufacturing simulation and through his publications in all areas of simulation, Jeff has significantly advanced the impact and visibility of the field worldwide.
Jeff served as coeditor of the Proceedings of the WSC '01, Jeff was instrumental in reducing the publication cost of the Proceedings when WSC was faced with a thirty-percent drop in attendance following the terrorist attacks of September 11. Jeff was the registration chair for WSC ’03 as well as the chair of an ad hoc committee of the WSC Board that was charged with soliciting bids for conference management during the following three-year period. In 2003 Jeff laid the foundation for an orderly transition of WSC management to INFORMS, thereby reducing projected conference-management cost by at least forty percent. In 2004 Jeff was the general chair of WSC. He radically restructured significant segments of the WSC ’04 program and heavily promoted the revamped program to WSC’s traditional constituencies in academia, government, and industry. By this extraordinary effort, Jeff managed to restore conference attendance to its pre–9/11 levels. Jeff Smith played a critical role in successfully bringing the WSC through the most difficult period in its forty-five-year history. He was registration chair in 2009, and business chair in 2010. Since 2010 Jeff has served on the WSC Board of Directors as co-representative of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. In 2012 he was webmaster for the WSC web site.
L. Jeff Hong and Guangwu Liu win 2012 Best Simulation Publication Award Pierre L'Ecuyer
Hong, L. Jeff . 2009. Estimating quantile sensitivities. Operations Research and
Hong, L. Jeff and Guangwu Liu. 2009. Simulating sensitivities of conditional value-at-risk. Management
Science
Quantiles of random performance distributions are often used as measures of risk in fi nance or to measure the quality of service in certain systems. Good quantile estimators have been available for a long time. But there are many situations, for example in optimization contexts, where the performance random variable depends on a parameter θ and we want to estimate the derivative of the quantile with respect to θ. This is much more difficult. In the first article, Jeff Hong shows how to write this derivative as a conditional expectation, and constructs an asymptotically unbiased stochastic derivative estimator based on that. This estimator turns out not to be consistent, but Hong leverages it to construct a consistent estimator by batching data and averaging independent copies. He studies the large-sample behavior and derives a central limit theorem for the
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resulting estimator. The method is easy to implement and is applicable to a large class of problems. The construction is based on a new approach to estimate the derivative of the expectation of a discontinuous function, via perturbation analysis. This approach has already found applications in subsequent papers. The second article considers estimating the derivative for another popular risk measure, the conditional value at risk (CVaR), which is the expected value conditional on being larger than a certain quantile. Hong and Liu show how to write this derivative as a conditional
expectation, propose an estimator, analyze its asymptotic properties, demonstrate its use in optimization settings where the CVaR appears in the objective or in constraints, and perform numerical studies. As one of the nominators puts it: These papers are the kind of work that, in retrospect, we might wish we had written because of the creativity and clarity of thinking involved.
Roy Hayes, Marlies de Keizer, and Kara Olson win 2012 CUMW Awards Feng Yang The 2012 CUMW award winners are Roy Hayes of the University of Virginia, Marlies de Keizer of Wageningen University, and Kara Olson of Old Dominion University. In order to cultivate the interest and encourage the participation of underrepresented minorities and women in the field of simulation, the INFORMS
Simulation Society is proud to award sponsorships to assist graduate students from these population groups in the costs of attending Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) each year. In 2012, each awardee received an honorarium of $500.00. The CUMW committee is looking forward for more high-quality applications for the coming 2013 WSC meeting.
Qu, Ryzhov, Fu, Hayes, Paddrik, Todd, Yang, Belinig, and Scherer win 2012 WSC Best Paper Awards Enlu Zhou The 2012 WSC Best Theoretical Paper Award went to: “Ranking and Selection With Unknown Correlation Structures”, Huashuai Qu, Ilya O. Ryzhov and Michael C. Fu, University of Maryland.
The 2012 WSC Best Applied Paper Award went to: “Agent Based Model of the E-MINI Future: Application For Policy Making”, Roy Lee Hayes, Mark Paddrik, Andrew Todd, Steve Yang, Peter Belinig and William Scherer, University of Virginia.
Chang-han Rhee and Christian Hammel win 2012 WSC Best Student Paper Awards Enlu Zhou The 2012 PhD Colloquium Best Paper Awards went to: INFORMS SIM Best MS/OR focused paper: "A New Approach to Unbiased Estimation for SDE’s" by Chang-han Rhee, Stanford University.
ACM SIGSIM Best CS focused paper: "Network Optimization prior to Dynamic Simulation of AMHS" by Christian Hammel et al., Technische Universität Dresden.
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INFORMS Healthcare 2013 June 23 – 26, 2013, Chicago, Illinois Seong-Hee Kim (source: http://meetings.informs.org/healthcare2013/) The conference aims to bring a diverse group of researchers and stakeholders together to share information and insights that can improve the long-term efficiency, effectiveness and quality of healthcare delivery. Presentations at INFORMS Healthcare 2013 will span a wide range of problems in the healthcare continuum that are amenable to data driven approaches.
EURO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting July 1 – 4, 2013, Rome, Italy Seong-Hee Kim (source: http://euro2013.org) After 10 years from the EURO XIX in Istanbul, EURO and INFORMS have decided to have their Conferences joint and have accepted the proposal by the Italian Operational Research Society of organizing this meeting on behalf of EURO. For details about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://euro2013.org.
2013 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop: Simulation for Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Large Scale Systems August 12 – 14, 2013, Atlanta, GA Seong-Hee Kim INFORMS Simulation Society (I-SIM) Research Workshop takes place every two years. This year’s I-SIM research workshop will be in Atlanta. The focus of the 2013 workshop is on large scale systems such as models for pandemic disease propagation; forecasting and stocking models for consumer goods; call center models; financial models for options pricing, portfolio optimization, and consumer credit scoring; transportation models; and environmental simulation models.
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INFORMS Annual Meeting 2013 October 6 – 9, 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota Seong-Hee Kim (source: http://meetings2.informs.org/minneapolis2013/) INFORMS Minneapolis will take place in the Minneapolis Convention Center, located in downtown Minneapolis and connected via enclosed skyway to the two headquarters hotels, Hilton Minneapolis and Hyatt Regency. With over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls, Minneapolis is abundantly rich in water and trees. The conference will be held in mid-October, known for its beautiful fall weather and moderate temperatures. The city is rated the number one bike friendly city in the U.S. The strength of this Annual Meeting is its diversity, bringing together experts from industry, academia, and government. The meeting covers topics ranging from business analytics to workforce management.
2013 Winter Simulation Conference December 8 – 11, 2013, Washington, DC Seong-Hee Kim (source: http://www.wintersim.org/) The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation. In addition to a technical program of unsurpassed scope and quality, WSC provides the central meeting place for simulation practitioners, researchers, and vendors working in all disciplines in industry, service, government, military and academic sectors. WSC 2013 will return to Washington, DC at the J.W. Marriott hotel December 8-11, 2013.
Report on the Informs Journal on Computing Marvin Nakayama, Journal on Computing Simulation Area Editor In the one-year period ending March 19, 2013, the Simulation Area of the INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) received 15 new submissions and 6 revised manuscripts. During this period, 3 papers were accepted and 10 rejected; there are 4 submissions currently awaiting various stages of editorial feedback. The average turnaround time over all rounds of submissions completed during this period was 88 days. Seong-Hee Kim has joined as an associate editor (AE) to replace Russell Barton, who recently stepped down after serving admirably as an IJOC AE since 2007. The
continuing AEs in the IJOC Simulation Area are James M. Calvin, Raghu Pasupathy, and Bruno Tuffin. I thank all of the AEs for doing a great job! The IJOC Simulation Area covers all computational aspects of stochastic simulation. We seek high-quality research on the computational aspects of simulation model building, simulation data structures, simulation modeling and experiment environments, stochastic input modeling, random-variate generation, output analysis, optimization, variance-reduction methods for simulation experiments, and other aspects of simulation modeling, experimentation, and analysis.
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Submissions to the Simulation Area should not merely use simulation as a tool for generating experiments to test another methodology (these manuscripts should instead be submitted to the IJOC area for which the methodology applies), nor should they merely present experimental results from a simulation model. Rather, manuscripts submitted to the area must make a
significant contribution to the field of stochastic simulation, as described in the previous paragraph. Complete instructions for preparing manuscripts are available at http://joc.pubs.informs.org. Submissions must be done electronically through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijoc.
Report on the Simulation Area for Operations Research Stephen E. Chick, Operations Research Simulation Area Editor For the period of September 24, 2012, to March 31, 2013, there were 11 new submissions and 4 resubmissions. There were 7 rejections, 5 papers continue under review, 2 revise-and-resubmit decisions and 2 acceptances. Of the editorial decisions made in this period, 2 were late (between 4 and 6 months from date of submission) and none were very late. I would like to thank the Associate Editor team, Russell Barton, Peter Frazier, Peter Haas, Jeff Hong, and Raghu Pasupathy. Thanks also to Shane Henderson, who wraps up the last papers in process from when he was Department Editor. The simulation area of Operations Research looks for significant work in simulation modeling, methodology
and applications that advance the knowledge and practice of simulation. In addition to the traditional research areas, we welcome contributions that develop the interface of simulation with other methodological areas, e.g., optimization and applied probability, and with application areas, e.g., service industries like healthcare and financial engineering, manufacturing, and business dynamics. In general, papers should be of interest to a broad O.R. audience, and not just to the simulation community, although we certainly welcome papers that represent major theoretical progress. Please submit papers electronically via the Manuscript Central O.R. Web site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/opre).
Report on ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) Pierre L'Ecuyer, Editor-in-Chief, ACM TOMACS Statistics on the editorial activities of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) for the period of 12 months ending: (a) March 1, 2011 (11-03), (b) March 22, 2012 (12-03), (c) April 25, 2013 (13-04): 11-03 12-03 13-04 Papers submitted 91 163 137 Immediate desk rejects by Editor-in-Chief 47 60 53 Final decisions made 93 111 119 Accepted 16 11 22 Percentage Accepted 17% 10% 18% Pending Manuscripts (with us) 10 38 43 Manuscripts in revision (with authors) 13 10
Avg. days from submission to first decision 32 43 43 Avg. referee turnaround time- Original 42 45 43 Avg. referee turnaround time – Revision 27 34 31 Avg. time from submission to final decision 21 27 32 In the “first decision” statistics, each revision of each paper is counted, whereas for the “final decision” numbers, each paper is counted only once, and the immediate rejects decrease the average. We received 54 new submissions so far this year (2013) compared with 58 at the same date last year. Our first issue in 2013
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was a special issue on Monte Carlo Methods in Statistics, edited by Arnaud Doucet and Christian Robert, with 9 articles (the largest TOMACS issue so far). The first three issues of 2013 have now been filled and sent to the publisher. Editorial work is ongoing for two special issues, one on Simulation in Complex Service Systems (20 submissions) and the other on Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Stochastic Simulation (19 submissions). The planned special issue on Modeling and Simulation on High-Performance Distributed Systems will not be published, due to an insufficient number of high-quality submissions (17 rejections out of 18 submissions). A special issue in honor of Donald L. Iglehart is planned to appear in 2014. This one is by invitation only. The ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) provides a single archival source for the publication of high-quality research and developmental results in computer simulation. The subjects of emphasis are discrete event simulation,
combined discrete and continuous simulation, as well as Monte Carlo methods. The use of simulation techniques is pervasive, extending to virtually all the sciences. TOMACS serves to enhance the understanding, improve the practice, and increase the utilization of computer simulation. Submissions should contribute to the realization of these objectives, and papers treating applications should stress their contributions vis-a-vis these objectives. TOMACS articles tend to have a long-lasting impact. For example, about 53% of citations to TOMACS are to articles more than 10 years old. In 2011, for instance, only 10% of citations were to TOMACS articles published in 2009 and 2010. For this reason, the ISI two-year impact factor (which only counts citations to articles published in the previous two years) largely underestimates the true impact and quality of TOMACS articles. This being said, the two-year and five-year ISI impact factors for TOMACS in 2011 were 1.114 and 1.367. For more information, visit http://www.linklings.net/tomacs/.
Report on the IIE Transactions Enver Yücesan and Chun-Hung Chen, Simulation Department Editors The Associate Editors in the IIET Simulation Area are Wai Kin Victor Chan. Alan Johnson, Loo Hay Lee, Hüseyin Topaloğlu, and Roberto Szechtman. For the period of March 1, 2012, to March 1, 2013, there were 21 new submissions. There were 8 rejections, 5 revise-and-resubmit decisions, and 2 acceptances. 6 manuscripts are currently under the first round of review. In addition, Loo Hay Lee from National University of Singapore is taking the lead on a special issue on “simulation optimization and its application”. The guest editors for this special issue also include Ek Peng Chew, Peter I. Frazier, Qing-Shan Jia, and Chun-Hung Chen. The submission has been very encouraging; there are 21
submissions. After thorough reviews, 8 papers are selected for publications in this special issue. The final print is expected to come out in July 2013. The guest editors want to thank everyone for the high interests in this topic. Along with the change in the editorship of the journal, the Simulation Department Editors have stepped down on March 1, 2013. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank the AEs and all the reviewers for their rigorous work over the past three years. It has been an honor to collaborate with them. We would also like to thank all of the authors for choosing IIE Transactions as an outlet for their research output and encourage them to continue submitting their best work to the journal.
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Report on the Journal of Simulation (JOS) Simon J E Taylor, Loo Hay Lee and John Fowler (Editors) In 2012 there were 64 submissions. 14 were accepted, 20 rejected and 30 are in process. There are four issues a year. In 2012 one was dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Simulation (6.2). In 2013 there will be two (Agent-based Simulation and Input Output Analysis). Currently there is one open special issue on Sustainable Healthcare (see the website for details). The main news for JOS in 2012 was that the journal was accepted by Thomson Reuters for indexing and
inclusion in the Science Citation Index (SCI) at the first request. This means that JOS will receive an impact factor this year. JOS also offers AOP and open access for authors. The Journal also welcomed three new associated editors (Strassburger (Ilmaneu), Tjahjono (Cranfield) and Heavy (Limerick)). For more information, please visit the website: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jos/index.html
Report on the Simulation Archive Simulation Archive Advisory Committee (SAAC) Richard E. Nance (Chair), Robert G. Sargent, James R. Wilson
Left to right: Richard E. Nance, Robert G. Sargent, James R. Wilson Established in the fall of 1998 at the N.C. State Libraries, the Simulation Archive can be accessed at www.tinyurl.com/simulation-archive. The SAAC serves to advise the library staff and to promote the development of the Archive. The Committee gratefully acknowledges a gift of $5000 to the Simulation Archive Endowment by the Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Simulation (ACM/SIGSIM). This is the second donation at this level by the Group, and our thanks go out to all the contributors who have now pushed the balance over $40,000.
Interest on the endowment funds continues to support activities in acquisition, preservation, and access to simulation artifacts. The SAAC has been heavily involved in the creation and compilation of material through the oral history of simulation project that is being pursued with support from the National Science Foundation. Bob Sargent and Jim Wilson acquired audio tapes of interviews conducted during the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference in Berlin. Videotaped interviews were created during January at NCSU and in California in February of this year. The attached picture shows the committee following a breakfast held by the NCSU Libraries to recognize Bob Sargent for his contributions and efforts over the past several years and continuing in 2013. Bob is holding the plaque honoring his work. You can keep up with the progress of the Simulation Archive by visiting the website, and feedback reactions and suggestions for improvement are welcomed. Additional and much needed tax-deductible donations can be made by contacting Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication, at (919) 515-7188 or by e-mail at [email protected] .
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Event Calendar Enlu Zhou INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, San Antonio, Texas, April 7 – 9, 2013, WWW: http://meetings2.informs.org/Analytics2013/. Annual IEEE Systems Conference, Orlando, Florida, April 15 –18, 2013, WWW: http://ieeesyscon.org/. 2013 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, San Diego, California, April 8 - 12, 2013, WWW: http://www.sisostds.org/Workshops/UpcomingWorkshops/CallforPaperSpring2013SIW.aspx. 2013 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, San Diego, California, April 7 - 10, 2013, WWW: http://www.scs.org/springsim/2013. IASTED Asian Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Control, Phuket, Thailand, April 10 – 12, 2013, WWW: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-799.html. IIE Annual Conference and Exposition 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18 – 22, 2013. WWW: http://www.iienet.org/annual2/. EURO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013, WWW: http://euro2013.org/
2013 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 7 - 10, 2013, WWW: http://www.scs.org/summersim. Seventeenth INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Costa Rica, Costa Rica, July 15 – 17, 2013 WWW: http://www.informs.org/Community/APS/APS-Conferences. 2013 I-Sim Research Workshop: “Simulation for Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Large Scale Systems”, Atlanta, GA, August 12 – 14, 2013. 2013 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Hyderabad, India, August 27 – 30, 2013, WWW: www.msc2013.org/. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota October 6 - 9 2013, WWW: http://www.informs.org/Attend-a-Conference/Annual-Meeting. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., December 8 – 11, 2013, WWW: http://www.wintersim.org/. 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 10 – 13, 2013, WWW: http://cdc2013.units.it/.
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INFORMS Simulation Society Business Meeting 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Phoenix, AZ October 14, 2012
By Young-Jun Son, Secretary Bahar Biller, President of the Society, called the meeting to order at 6:18pm. Departing officers and council/committee members were thanked for their services. She recognized efforts of Theresa Roeder, Pete Welch, Enlu Zhou, and Peter Haas to update and maintain the I-SIM website (www.informs.org/Community/Simulation-Society). Any volunteer for columns or reviews on books or papers are welcome. A motion to approve the minutes from the I-SIM business meeting in WSC 2011 was made and the motion passed. At 6:20pm, Bahar Biller, on behalf of Seong-Hee Kim, gave the Vice President’s report. At INFORMS 2012, there were 14 sponsored sessions and 47 presentations. She thanked to all session organizers. She then invited the I-SIM members to participate or submit their papers for the following upcoming conferences:
• WSC 2012 in Berlin, Germany, December 9-12, 2012. • INFORMS Business Analytics & Operations Research, San Antonio, TX, April 7- 9, 2013 • EURO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Italy, July 1- 4, 2013 • I-Sim 2013 Workshop, Atlanta, GA, Summer 2013
At 6:21pm, Young-Jun Son gave Secretary’s report. As of 09/30/12, the society had 592 active members. There were 158 international members and 186 new members. Twelve members have kept their memberships since 1976. For those whose membership will end soon, they were reminded to renew their membership. At 6:23pm, John Shortle, Treasurer, reported on the financial status of the society. There were positive $4,705.00 net revenue from 1/1/12 to 6/30/12 and the ending balance of the society as of 6/30/12 was $99,747.75. John then explained that in the next earnings statement, there will be a significant drop in the balance to correct an erroneous credit of $43K in 2008. Christos Alexopoulos also clarified why this had happened. First, it was noted that the I-SIM society balance changed from $38,770.24 in Fall 2008 to $101,102.35 in Fall 2009, where this sharp increase in the I-SIM balance is due to the $43,485.76 credit entry at the end of 2008 after the audit, and then another credit entry of $22.735.76 in May 2009. John then explained the $22.735.76 credit: In 2008, it was computed that each of 5 societies had $43,485.76 in WSC capital. One of the societies, ASA no longer wanted to be a financial sponsor for WSC. Their $43,485.76 was returned to them and donated back to WSC and eventually the WSC Foundation. The remaining 4 societies – ACM, IIE, I-SIM and SCS – remained financial sponsors for WSC. Each of these societies allotted $20,750 of their $43,485.76 to be held as seed money. The remaining $22,735.76 per society was returned. And this is what we received in May 2009. However, it was a mistake that I-SIM was also returned the entire $43,485.76 share of the WSC holdings in 2008. This has been noticed very recently, questioning our position as a financial sponsor for WSC. Therefore, we have to return $43,485.76 to be in an equal position with each of the other three financial sponsors. Consequently, this will reduce the I-SIM balance from $99,747.75 to $56,261.99. John has thanked Christos Alexopoulos, Doug Morrice, Seong-Hee Kim, and Ernie Page for handling this issue and clarifying what has to be done. A concern was addressed from the audience on why it has taken too long to find out the error, and it was suggested this be discussed further at Winter Simulation Conference 2012 in Berlin between WSC board and INFORMS staff. At 6:35pm, Feng Yang gave a report for the Committee on Underrepresented Minorities and Women (CUMW). The goal of this award is inclusiveness and outreach to those who need funding to attend WSC. PhD candidates or recent PhD’s within 1-2 years out are eligible and requirements include a reference letter, resume, description of other
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sources of support and essay (why qualified for UMW status and how would benefit from attendance). It was encouraged that people submit letter of interest and letter of recommendations by October 22nd to Feng. At 6:36pm, Bahar Biller, on behalf of the WSC PhD Colloquium committee, reported the status of WSC 12 PhD colloquium. There are 18 final-year students giving talks and 28 posters. Adelinde Uhrmacher of University of Rostock is the key note speaker. She encouraged members to attend the colloquium. At 6:37pm, an announcement was made for seeking inputs on nominations for election of officers to serve 2013~2015, and two Council members (one from outside the United States). Nominations are accepted till March 1. Ballots will be in early spring newsletter. At 6:37pm, journal editors (Raghu Pasupathy, Steve Chick, Sheldon Jacobson, and Bahar Biller (on behalf of other editors)) gave reports on INFORMS Journal on Computing, Operations Research, IIE Transactions, and ACM TOMACS. A motion to dismiss approved and the meeting adjourned at 6:39pm. Attendees: In the interest of preventing email address harvesting, email addresses have been disguised. To get the true email address, replace <of> with @. Ek Peng Chew, isecep<of>nus.edu.sg Raghu Pasupathy, pasupath<of>vt.edu Young-Jun Son, son<of>sie.arizona.edu Canan Gunes Gorlu, gincm.corlu<of>bilkent.edu Susan Hunter, hunter<of>cornell.edu John Shortle, jshortle<of>gmu.edu Sigrun Andradottir, sa<of>gatech.edu Peter Frazier, pf98<of>cornell.edu Sheldon Jacobson, shj<of>Illinois.ed Louis Luangkesorn, lol11<of>pitt.edu Barry L. Nelson, nelson<of>northwestern.edu Bahar Biller, billerb<of>andrew,cmu.edu Jie Xu, jxu13<of>gmu.edu Enlu Zhou, enluzhou<of> Illinois.edu Loo Hay Lee, isedleelh<of>nus.edu.g Shane Henderson, sgh9<of>cornell.edu Susan Sanchez ssanchez<of>nps.edu Huashuai Qu huashuai<of>umd.edu Pres White kpwhite<of>Virginia.edu Ilya Ryzhov iryzhov<of>rhsmith.umd.edu Emily Lada Emily.lada<of>sas.com
Jim Wilson jwilson<of>ncsu.edu Feng Yang feng.yang<of>mail.wvu.edu Bruce Schmeiser bruceschmeiser<of>gmail.com Paul Sanchez pjsanche<of>nps.edu Irina Savitskaya irina.savitskaya<of>lut.fi Prajwal Khadgi p0khad01<of>Louisville.edu Leyuan Shi leyuan<of>engr.wisc.edu Steve Chick stephen.chick<of>insead.edu Stewart Robinson s.l.robinson<of>lboro.ac.uk Sung Nam Hwang snh4e<of>virginia.edu Kevin Leder lede0024>of>umn.edu Sujin Kim iseks<of>nus.edu.sg Han Wu howu0009<of>louisville.edu Nasim S. Sabounchi Sabounchi<of>vt.edu Sara Shashaam sshashaa<of>vt.edu Yao Luo y.luo6<of>umiami.edu Kyoung-Kuk Kim catenoid<of>kaist.edu Yang Miang Goh bdggym<of>nus.edu.sg Ger M Koole ger.koole<of>vu.nl Xi Chen xchen4<of>vcu.edu Liming Feng fenglm<of>illinois.edu
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INFORMS Simulation Society Business Meeting 2012 Winter Simulation Conference
Berlin, Germany December 11, 2012
By Young-Jun Son, Secretary Bahar Biller, President of the Society, called the meeting to order at 6:31pm and each person at the meeting introduced themselves (name and affiliation) at 6:32pm. At 6:36pm, the President thanked council and committee members. She also thanked departing officers and council/committee members. The departing members are Oliver Rose, Paul Sanchez, Mike Kuhl from Council; Preston White, Averill Law, Thanos Avramidis from awards committees; Roberto Lu, Peter Welch, Jim Wilson, Raghu Pasupathy, Demet Batur, Ali Tafazzoli from committees; Preston White and Doug Morrice from I-Sim Representatives. At 6:37pm, Bob Sargent gave a report on Simulation Archive whose URL is http://www.tinyurl.com/simulation-archive. The members of the Simulation Archive Advisory Committee are Richard Nance (chair), Robert Sargent, and Jim Wilson. The Archive’s endowment is $37,160, where $5,000 was newly donated by ACM SIGSIM. All back numbers of the WSC Proceedings including 6 papers that were published in Simuletter have been digitized. He encouraged people to make tax-deductible donations for the Simulation Archive Endowment via [email protected]. At 6:39pm, Barry Nelson gave a report on WSC Foundation (WSCF) whose URL is http://wintersim.org/node/44 (which is also linked from http://wintersim.org/). The WSCF's mission is to insure the continuance and quality of the WSC by providing loans and grants from its fund. The fund was created through Patrons' donations, where details and a list of Patrons are available at the WSC website. The fund balance is approximately $73,000, and the only expenditure to date is a grant of $1500 to film the Titans' talks at WSC 2011. Barry mentioned that the Foundation will continue to hold funds to insure the continuance of the WSC and support new initiatives to enhance the quality of WSC. At 6:40pm, a motion to approve the minutes from an I-Sim business meeting at 2012 INFORMS was made and the motion passed. At 6:40pm, Seong-Hee Kim gave the Vice President’s report. She reported on the 2012 INFORMS conference in Phoenix, AZ. The Society sponsored 14 sessions with 47 presentations. She thanked 14 session organizers. There are several upcoming events:
• INFORMS Business Analytics & Operations Research, San Antonio, TX, April 7- 9, 2013. • INFORMS Healthcare 2013, Chicago, IL, June 23- 26, 2013. • EURO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Italy, July 1- 4, 2013.
At 6:42pm, David Goldsman invited the I-SIM members to participate in 2013 I-Sim Research Workshop to be held on August 12–14, 2013 (Mon – Weds) at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. Contacts for the workshop are Christos Alexopoulos, Sigrún Andradóttir, Dave Goldsman, and Seong-Hee Kim. The theme of the workshop is Simulation for Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Large-Scale Systems. David described some detailed workshop activities such as Mini-keynote plenary talks, Q&A / breakouts, Poster sessions, Working lunches, and After-hours tours and social stuff. It was announced that a formal call will be sent out in the near future, and some travel funds may be available. At 6:44pm, Seong-Hee Kim, on behalf of Jeff Hong, reported on the 2012 NSF Workshop on Simulation Methodology in Shanghai, China, July 23 – July 25. There were 35 attendees with 4 keynote speakers. She recognized the organizers and sponsors. A special issue in the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) is being edited on emerging methodologies and applications in stochastic simulation.
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At 6:46pm, Young-Jun Son gave the Secretary’s report. As of 12/03/12, there were 625 active members, where there are 171 are international members and 212 new members. Twelve members have kept their memberships since 1976. Members were reminded to renew their subscriptions. At 6:47pm, John Shortle gave the Treasurer’s report. I-Sim is in a good financial shape. Its current balance as of September 30, 2012 was $87,947.06. John explained that in the next earnings statement, there will be a significant drop in the balance to correct an erroneous credit of $43K in 2008. Christos Alexopoulos also clarified what this has happened. First, it was noted that the I-SIM society balance changed from $38,770.24 in Fall 2008 to $101,102.35 in Fall 2009, where this sharp increase in the I-SIM balance is due to the $43,485.76 credit entry at the end of 2008 after the audit, and then another credit entry of $22.735.76 in May 2009. John then explained the $22.735.76 credit: In 2008, it was computed that each of 5 societies had $43,485.76 in WSC capital. One of the societies, ASA no longer wanted to be a financial sponsor for WSC. Their $43,485.76 was returned to them and donated back to WSC and eventually the WSC Foundation. The remaining 4 societies – ACM, IIE, I-SIM and SCS – remained financial sponsors for WSC. Each of these societies allotted $20,750 of their $43,485.76 to be held as seed money. The remaining $22,735.76 per society was returned. And this is what we received in May 2009. However, it was a mistake that I-SIM was also returned the entire $43,485.76 share of the WSC holdings in 2008. This has been noticed very recently, questioning our position as a financial sponsor for WSC. Therefore, we have to return $43,485.76 to be in an equal position with each of the other three financial sponsors. Consequently, this will reduce the I-SIM balance from $99,747.75 to $56,261.99. John has thanked Christos Alexopoulos, Doug Morrice, Seong-Hee Kim, and Ernie Page for handling this issue and clarifying what has to be done. At 6:53pm, Enver Yücesan was announced as a new board member representing I-SIM as the term of Doug Morrice is over. I-SIM members congratulated him. At 6:54pm, Ali Tafazzoli reported the status of WSC 12 PhD colloquium (other committee members are Andreas Tolk (Chair), Nurcin Celik, and Mamadou Seck). Adelinde Uhrmacher of University of Rostock was the keynote speaker (“Seven pitfalls in modeling and simulation research”). The Colloquium was jointly sponsored by I-Sim and ACM/SIGSIM. The format of this year’s Colloquium mirrored the main conference with a lunch, a keynote, oral presentations with themed sessions, and posters. There were 28 student presentations, where 19 of them have an accepted paper. 18 of them have participated in the award competitions, and two winners were selected (each sponsored by I-SIM and ACM-SIGSIM). At 6:56pm, Bahar Biller thanked NSF and program directors (Michael Fu, Russell Barton, and Sheldon Jacobson) for providing travel support for 17 students to attend WSC 2012. At 6:56pm, Sheldon Jacobson, Program Director for OR at US NSF, introduced US NSF, OR program, and potential funding opportunities for simulation researchers and I-SIM members. At 6:57pm, Peter Haas gave a report on Nominations Committee, which consists of Peter Haas (chair), Jeff Smith, and Bruce Schmeiser. The committee is seeking input on nominations to serve 2013-2015 for two Council Members. Nominations via petition will be accepted through March 1, 2013. Ballots will appear in the Spring Newsletter. AT 6:58pm, editors’ gave reports on journals: • Marvin Nakayama for the Journal on Computing. He thanked associate editors (Russell Barton, Jim Calvin,
Raghu Pasupathy, Bruno Tuffin) for their service. For one-year period ending September 21, 2012, there were 13 new submissions and 9 resubmissions with 5 acceptances and 9 rejections. Marvin Nakayama encouraged people to submit high-quality simulation papers with computing aspect to the journal.
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• Steve Chick for Operations Research. He thanked Shane Henderson (a previous area editor) and associate editors for their service. He encouraged people to submit high-quality simulation papers to the journal.
• Chun-Hung Chen and Enver Yücesan for IIE Transactions. From October 1 2011 to September 15 2012, there were 14 new submissions with 3 acceptance, 6 rejections and 5 revisions/resubmissions. For the special issue on “simulation optimization and its applications” led by Loo Hay Lee, 21 submissions have been received, and it is expected to complete all of the reviewing process by the end of this year.
• Pierre L’Ecuyer for TOMACS. There were 145 submissions in 2012 with 60 immediate desk rejections by Editor-in-chief, 23 acceptances, 25 pending manuscripts with TOMACS, and 13 manuscripts in revision with authors. There are four special issues: simulation methods in statistics (guest editors: C. Robert and A. Doucet), simulation in complex service systems (guest editors: P. Haas, S. Henderson, and P. L’Ecuyer), high-performance distributed systems (guest editors: K. Morse, W. Cai), and Emerging Methodologies and Applications (guest editors: J. Hong, J.Hu, S. Kim).
• Loo Hay Lee and John Fowler for Journal of Simulation. Loo Hay provided a brief overview of the journal and encouraged people to submit high-quality simulation papers to the journal.
At 7:08pm, there were discussions on new business: • Volunteers were sought for maintenance of WSC’s web site. I-SIM communications committee will meet and
come up with candidates for volunteers. At 7:15pm, David Goldsman gave a speech in Memoriam of Jerry Banks (1939-2012). Jerry was a professor in the School of ISyE at Georgia Tech (1965-1999), a professor at Monterrey Tech, and a senior Simulation Advisor for Brooks Automation. He was an author or editor of 13 books, a WSC proceedings, several book chapters, and many scholarly papers. He was a leading contributor to and participant in WSC (Board member, conference organizer), and was passionate about simulation, which he introduced to countless thousands of people all over the world. He was recipient of the 1999 Distinguished Service Award given by the INFORMS Simulation Society. Jerry had terrific sense of humor and was an exceptional teacher. He has amazingly dedicated to simulation, and was a great friend. At 7:19pm, Soren Asmussen gave a speech in Memoriam of Reuven Rubinstein (1938-2012). Reuven was a professor since 1973 at the School of IE and Management at the Technion and a visiting Professor/scientist at over 20 schools and research groups, including Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, IBM, and AT&T Bell Labs. He was a leading contributor in the areas of Monte Carlo simulation, applied probability, stochastic modeling, and stochastic optimization. He authored six books and over 100 papers, and his book “Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method” (Wiley) has almost 3,600 Google Scholar citations! Reuven was recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Professional Achievement Award given by I-SIM, and recipient of the 2011 Lifetime Professional Award given by the Operations Research Society of Israel. The meeting moved to awards at 7:23pm. Awards:
• Ali Tafazzoli announced WSC 2012 Best Student Paper Awards (other committee members are Andreas Tolk (Chair), Nurcin Celik, and Mamadou Seck). Chang-han Rhee (Stanford) won the best MS/OR-focused paper award for his paper “A New Approach to Unbiased Estimation for SDE’s”. Christian Hammel (Technische Universität Dresden) won the best CS-focused paper award for his paper “Network Optimization Prior to Dynamic Simulation of AMHS”.
• Demet Batur presented the CUMW Award (other committee members are Devaushi Singham and Feng Yang). The awards were presented to Marlies de Keizer (Wageningen University), Kara A. Olson (Old Dominion University), and Roy L. Hayes Jr. (University of Virginia).
• Pierre L'Ecuyer presented the Outstanding Publication Award (other committee members were Thanos Avramidis and Marvin Nakayama). The award went to Jeff Hong and Guangwu Liu (Hong Kong) for their papers “Estimating quantile sensitivities” and “Simulating sensitivities of conditional value-at-risk” which appeared in Operations Research in 2009 and Management Science in 2009, respectively.
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• Pierre L'Ecuyer presented the Distinguished Service Award (other committee members were Peter D. Welch (Chair) and K. Preston White, Jr.). Jeffrey S. Smith was selected as this year’s recipient with his exceptional involvement with the WSC (Proceedings Editor, General Chair, Business Chair, Webmaster, Board of Directors). He has been instrumental in reducing conference costs (proceedings and management) and keeping the WSC afloat amid the hard times that followed 9-11. Jeff significantly advanced the impact and visibility of the field worldwide, through his leadership and publications.
• Barry Nelson presented the Lifetime Professional Achievement Award, the highest honor in the society. Other committee members are Reuven Rubinstein and Averill M. Law. This year’s recipient is Donald L. Iglehart of Stanford University. Peter Glynn noted “Don’s research made clear the deep connections between simulation and stochastic OR/applied probability. As a consequence, it is no longer the case today that the dominant view of simulation is as a “last resort” methodology. Rather, in large part because of Don’s influence, simulation is now firmly embedded within the operations research, probability, and statistics communities as a central tool, and not as an afterthought.” Donald gave a speech accepting the award on “Milestones Along the Journey of My Professional Career”.
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Ballot for Election of I-Sim Officers Peter J. Haas To vote in the election for I-Sim Officers and Council Members, return the ballot below by e-mail or mail by May 31st, 2013 to: Peter J. Haas IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120-6099 E-Mail: [email protected] If you use email, please include the words I-Sim Ballot in the subject line. Two candidates will be elected for the I-Sim Council for a period of two years. The candidates are presented in alphabetical order. COUNCIL (vote for up to two) ________ Victor W. K. Chan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ________ Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, USA ________ Loo Hay Lee, National University of Singapore ________ Feng Yang, West Virginia University, USA ________ ______________________________ (write in) (This part will be used only to certify the ballot – your vote will be kept confidential. Your e-mail address will serve as your signature if you vote electronically.) Your name (Print): ________________________________________________ Your signature: _______________________________________________
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Brief Biographical Sketches for Candidates for I-Sim Council VICTOR W. K. CHAN is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He presently serves as a conference co-chair of the 2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (IIE Annual Conference), an Associate Editor for IIE Transactions, a track coordinator for the Analysis Methodology track of the Winter Simulation Conference in 2009 and 2013. He also served as a track coordinator for the Agent-based Simulation track of the Winter Simulation Conference in 2011 and a co-chair of the Ph.D. Colloquium of the Winter Simulation Conference in 2005 and 2006. He is a member of I-SIM, INFORMS, IIE, and IEEE. SHELDON H. JACOBSON is a Professor and Director of the Simulation and Optimization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both in Mathematics) from McGill University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Operations Research and Information Engineering) from Cornell University. He has been a member of I-SIM (and its predecessor, the College on Simulation) since 1988, serving as its Treasurer from 1994 to 1996, on the Best Publication Award Committee from 1997 to 1999 (chairing the committee in 1998), and the Membership Committee from 2000 to 2002. He also served as an Associate Editor for Operations Research, Simulation Department from 2001-2005. He presently serves in a number of editorial roles, including the Focused Issue Editor for IIE Transactions, Operations Engineering and Analysis (since 2009). A regular attendee of the Winter Simulation Conference and INFORMS national meetings, his research has been disseminated in a wide spectrum of journals, as well as in two research videos and through the popular media. He is a member of INFORMS, IIE, ASEE, and SIAM. He is presently serving as the Program Director for Operations Research at the National Science Foundation. LOO HAY LEE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at National University of Singapore and was a visiting professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research at George Mason University. He received his B.S (Electrical Engineering) degree from the National Taiwan University in 1992 and his S.M and PhD degrees in 1994 and 1997 from Harvard University. He is a senior member of IEEE, and has served as a council member, newsletter editor and the chair for the committee of Recruiting and Retention of Members in the simulation society of INFORMS. He was also the proceeding editor for the 2009 Simulation workshop. His research focuses on the simulation-based optimization, maritime logistics which includes port operations and the modeling and analysis for the logistics and supply chain system. He has co-authored a book: Stochastic Simulation Optimization-Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (World Scientific) and co-edited the book Advances in Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain Systems. For details, please visit www.ise.nus.edu.sg/staff/leelh. FENG YANG is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department at West Virginia University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University in 2006. Her research focuses on metamodeling, design of experiments, and applied statistical methods. She is interested in developing methods for production and supply chain management, toxicology studies of nanomaterials, and sensor-related applications. Her research has been supported by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and NASA. She was the Committee Chair for Underrepresented Minorities and Women (CUMW) of the INFORMS Simulation Society in 2012. She has served as session chairs for the INFORMS annual meetings and the Winter Simulation Conferences.
