George Fishman’s Professional Career

Christos Alexopoulos (), David Goldsman () and James R. Wilson ()
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Christos Alexopoulos: Georgia Institute of Technology
David Goldsman: Georgia Institute of Technology
James R. Wilson: North Carolina State University

A chapter in Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation, 2009, pp 1-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this lead article for Advancing the Frontiers of Simulation: A Festschrift in Honor of George Samuel Fishman, we survey briefly George’s professional career, summarizing his most significant contributions to the disciplines of operations research and the management sciences. We give special emphasis to George’s remarkable accomplishments in helping to lay the foundation for the field of computer simulation and advancing that field over the past five decades.

Keywords: Operation Research; Discrete Event Simulation; Regenerative Method; Network Reliability; Random Variate Generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/b110059_1

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