W. David Kelton is a Professor in the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as MSQA Program Director. He received a BA in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MS in mathematics from Ohio University, and MS and PhD degrees in industrial engineering from Wisconsin. He was formerly on the faculty at Penn State, the University of Minnesota, The University of Michigan, and Kent State. Visiting posts have included the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a Fellow of both INFORMS and IIE.
His research interests and publications are in the probabilistic and statistical aspects of simulation, applications of simulation, statistical quality control, and stochastic models. His papers have appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, the European Journal of Operational Research, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, among others. He is co-author of Simulation with Arena, with Randall P. Sadowski and either Deborah A. Sadowski (first and second editions), David T. Sturrock (third and fourth editions), or Nancy B. Swets (fifth edition), which has sold over 87,000 copies worldwide and has been referenced in over 170 refereed journal articles since 1998, receiving McGraw-Hill’s award for Most Successful New Title in 1998; it has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. He was also coauthor, with Averill M. Law, of the first three editions of Simulation Modeling and Analysis for McGraw-Hill, which has sold over 109,000 copies worldwide and has been referenced in over 2,200 refereed journal articles since 1982. Grants have come from General Motors, Ford, Standard Oil, Cray Research, Apple Computer, Hennepin County (Minnesota), the Minneapolis Citizens Council on Crime and Justice, the Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, Vaughn Communications, Cincinnati Sub-Zero, Omnicare Inc., Revco Drug Stores, Baker/McKesson Automated Pharmacy Systems, Select Tool & Die Corporation, Procter & Gamble, the U.S. Department of Education, University of Cincinnati Office of Research and Advanced Studies, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS Journal on Computing from 2000 to mid-2007, during which time the journal rose from unranked on the ISI Impact Factor to first out of 56 journals in the operations-research/management-science category. He has also served as Simulation Area Editor for Operations Research, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, and IIE Transactions, Associate Editor of Operations Research, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and Simulation, and was Guest Co-Editor for a special simulation issue of IIE Transactions. He regularly reviews for many journals, NSF, and NSERC. In 1982 he received the TIMS College on Simulation award for best simulation paper in Management Science, in 1994 the IIE Operations Research Division Award, in 1997 a Meritorious Service Award from Operations Research, in 1998 the INFORMS College on Simulation Distinguished Service Award, in 2001 the INFORMS College on Simulation Outstanding Simulation Publication Award, in 2004 was named a Fellow of IIE, and in 2007 was elected as an INFORMS Fellow. He was President of the TIMS College on Simulation, and was the INFORMS co-representative to the Winter Simulation Conference Board of Directors from 1991 through 1999, where he served as Board Chair for 1998. In 1987 he was Program Chair for the WSC, and in 1991 was General Chair; he is a Founding Trustee and Past President of the WSC Foundation. He has consulted for NASA, Volvo, General Dynamics, Harper-Grace Hospitals, Pillsbury, 3M, Johnson Controls, Systems Modeling, SuperValu, SEMATECH, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, the Vienna (Austria) Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Army Logistics Management College.W. David Kelton
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0130, USA
david.kelton@uc.edu
http://www.cba.uc.edu/faculty/keltonwd/
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