Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue Honoring Donald L. Iglehart

摘要

This special issue was conceived to honor Donald L. Iglehart on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He has profoundly influenced the simulation community throughout the course of his career. By connecting the design and analysis of simulation-based estimation algorithms to the underlying theory of stochastic processes, he introduced a new level of rigor to the simulation field. To quote his citation for the 2012 INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award: "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." His work on simulation-as well as on inventory theory and on diffusion limits and approximations for heavily congested stochastic systems-earned him the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2002. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both INFORMS and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.