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

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441908161
• ISBN13: 9781441908162
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"