W. David Kelton is a Professor in the Department of Operations and Business
Analytics at the University of Cincinnati, where he serves as MS - Business
Analytics Program Director; he is also Visiting Professor of Operations Research
at the Naval Postgraduate School. 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. Past visiting posts include the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Warsaw
School of Economics. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, IIE, and the University of
Cincinnati Graduate School.
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 Simio and Simulation:
Modeling, Analysis, Applications, with Jeffrey S. Smith and David T.
Sturrock (and, for the first edition, Alexander Verbraeck), now in its 2011
second edition with McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions. He is also 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
100,000 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,
Revco, Rite-Aid, McKesson Automated Pharmacy Systems, Select Tool & Die, Procter & Gamble, and the University of Cincinnati Office of
Research and Advanced Studies.
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 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
University.
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/
Phone: +1-513-556-6834
Fax: +1-513-556-5499