Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue on the Third INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop

摘要

The 2011 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop was held in Montreal during the period of July 18-20, 2011. The workshop was sponsored and organized by the GERAD research center and also sponsored by the National Science Foundation (USA) under Grant Number CMMI-1132167, and by IBM. The general goal of the INFORMS Simulation Society workshops is to bring together leading researchers working in simulation methodology and applications related to operation research and management science, to reflect on a selected central theme and identify important issues that need attention and promising paths to solutions.