Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation A Festschrift in Honor of George Samuel Fishman /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alexopoulos, Christos (Editor), Goldsman, David (Editor), Wilson, James R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 133
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Optimization.

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, methodology, and application of computer simulati...

Table of Contents:

• George Fishman#x2019;s Professional Career
• A Conversation with George Fishman
• Computer Intensive Statistical Model Building
• Patchwork Distributions
• Asymptotic Validity of Batch Means Steady-State Confidence Intervals
• Efficient Modeling of Delays in Discrete-Event Simulation
• Sampling from Linear Multivariate Densities
• Factor Screening in Simulation Experiments: Review of Sequential Bifurcation
• F-Linear Random Number Generators
• Opportunities and Challenges in Health Care Simulation
• Future Trends in Distributed Simulation and Distributed Virtual Environments
• Combined Screening and Selection of the Best with Control Variates
• Optimal Linear Combinations of Overlapping Variance Estimators for Steady-State Simulation.