Transcript WSC `XX - Winter Simulation Conference

Winter Simulation Conference
Dec. 7-10, 2014
Savannah, Georgia
Photos from the Conference
Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa
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Savannah International Trade &
Convention Center
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Keynote Speakers
Plenary Keynote: Dr. Robert Roser
Scientific Computing Division Head / CIO
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
The Higgs Boson and the Role of Simulation
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Keynote Speakers
Military Keynote: Greg Tackett
Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Evaluation U.S.
Army Test and Evaluation Command
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
Very Like a Whale...the Missing Meta-phor
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Keynote Speakers
(cont.)
MASM Keynote: Reha Uszoy
Clifton A. Anderson Distinguished Professor
Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
(Almost) Present at the
Creation: 25 Years of
Modelling and Simulation
in Semiconductor
Manufacturing
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Keynote Speakers
(cont.)
PhD Colloquium Keynote: Andreas Tolk
Chief Scientist
SimIS Inc.
M&S as a Discipline – Foundations,
Philosophy, and Future
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Titan Speakers
John A. Swanson
Founder, ANSYS Inc.
John Swanson and ANSYS
– An Engineering
Success Story
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Titan Speakers
Richard Fujimoto
Georgia Institute of Technology
Parallel and Distributed Simulation
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WSC Board of
Directors
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WSC Board of
Directors
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Conference
Organizers
General
Chair
Steve Buckley, IBM
Program
Chair
John Miller, University of Georgia
Business
Chair
Sanjay Jain, George Washington
University School of Business
Proceedings
Editors
Andreas Tolk, SimIS, Inc.
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University
Saikou Diallo, Old Dominion University
Ilya Ryzhov, University of Maryland
Publicity
Chairs
Young Jun Son, University of Arizona
Registration
Chair
Soumyadip Ghosh, IBM
Exhibit Chair
Peter Lendermann, D-SIMLAB
Technologies
Sponsorship
Chair
John Tufarolo, Research Innovations
Incorporated
Board Chair
Gordon Shao, NIST
Board
Liaison
Ann Dunkin, Palo Alto Unified School
District
Mobile App
Mike Kuhl, Rochester Institute of
Technology
Oliver Rose, University of the
Bundeswehr Munich
Lee Loo Hay, National University of
Singapore
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Exhibits
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Posters
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WSC Golf
Tournament
First Place Team
Leon McGinnis, Jeff Joines, Steve
Roberts, Jeff Smith
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Awards
PhD Colloquium
I-SIM/ACM-SIGSIM
Best OR/MS-Focused Paper Award
On Adaptive Sampling Rules
for Stochastic Recursions
Fatemeh S. Hashemi
Soumyadip Ghosh
Raghu Pasupathy
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Awards
PhD Colloquium
I-SIM/ACM-SIGSIM
Best CS-Focused Paper Award
Inverse Uncertainty Propagation for
Demand Driven Data Acquisition
Philipp Baumgartel
Gregor Endler
Andreas M. Wahl
Richard Lenz
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Awards
WSC 2014 Best Theoretical Paper Award
Constructing Confidence
Intervals for a Quantile Using
Batching and Sectioning When
Applying Latin Hypercube
Sampling
Hui Dong
Marvin K. Nakayama
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Awards
WSC 2014 Best Applied Paper Award
Analysis of Hospital Bed Capacity via
Queuing Theory and Simulation
Luiz Ricardo Pinto
Francisco Carlos Cardoso de Campos
Ignez Helena Oliva Perpétuo
Yara Cristina Neves Marques
Barbosa Ribeiro
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Awards
Vijay Desai
Vivek Farias
Ciamac Moallemi
V. Desai, V. Farias, and C. Moallemi. “Pathwise Optimization for
Optimal Stopping Problems,” Management Science, Vol. 58, No.
12, Dec. 2012, pp. 2292‒2308.
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Awards
2014 I-SIM Lifetime Professional
Achievement Award
Bruce Schmeiser
Purdue University
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Awards
2014 INFORMS Simulation Society
Distinguished Service Award
Jeffrey A. Joines
North Carolina State University
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Awards
2013 James R. Wilson
Board of Directors Award
Thomas Jefferson
Intel Corporation
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