From left to right: Pierre L'Ecuyer and K. Preston White

The INFORMS Simulation Society is pleased to recognize Pierre L’Ecuyer with its Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award, given at most once a year, was established "to recognize individuals who have provided long-standing, exceptional service to the simulation community." The award was presented during the opening ceremonies of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, held in Phoenix, AZ. The Selection Committee consisted of past awardees Preston White, Russell Barton, and Peter Welch.

Among his many accomplishments, Pierre has organized and/or chaired seven international workshops, including the highly successful 2011 I-SIM Workshop held in Montreal. He has served on program committees for thirty-five international conferences and as a referee for over 100 archival journals. He also has served as an associate, area, or guest editor for ten journals and currently is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). He has authored over 200 scholarly publications, including both the 2009 I-SIM Outstanding Research Publication and one of the “ten Landmark Papers that impacted the theory, education, and practice of simulation” recognized at the WSC2007. Pierre is an INFORMS Fellow and a Fellow of the IRISA Michel Métivier Foundation.

Past Winners

To recognize individuals who have provided long-standing, exceptional service to the simulation community, the INFORMS Simulation Society has established its Distinguished Service Award, which may be given to at most one person annually. Sustained service to the simulation community should extend over a period of 15 to 20 years or longer and be acquitted with distinction. The concept of service for this award does NOT include teaching or research contributions. Areas of volunteer service include but are not limited to:

1. elected offices in simulation societies;
2. editorial responsibilities for simulation such as department editor, area editor, and editor-in-chief;
3. conference responsibilities involving simulation such as program chair, proceedings editor, general chair, and being a member of the organizing or program committee;
4. appointed positions for simulation-related activities such as serving on committees and being a newsletter editor; and
5. undertakings and actions that promote simulation in the "larger community".

Peter Welch Receives 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the INFORMS Simulation Society

From left to right: Peter Haas, Peter Welch, Russell Barton

The INFORMS Simulation Society is pleased to recognize Peter D. Welch with its Distinguished Service Award. The award was presented during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, recently held in Baltimore, MD. The Selection Committee consisted of Russell Barton, Russell Cheng and K. Preston White. The Distinguished Service Award, given at most once a year, was established "to recognize individuals who have provided long-standing, exceptional service to the simulation community." During Peter Welch’s service as the Simulation Department Area Editor of Operations Research during the period 1983-1987 he was successful in promoting simulation as a rigorous discipline. Simulation publications in the journal at that time were critical to the academic success of many of simulation’s top researchers. Welch was also recognized for over 15 years of outstanding service in the initiation and continuing development of the websites for the Winter Simulation Conference, www.wintersim.org, the INFORMS Simulation Society, www.informs-sim.org, and the WSC Foundation, www.wscfoundation.org. These Web sites are regarded as primary sources of information about the INFORMS Simulation Society, the Winter Simulation Conference, and the WSC Foundation. In particular, his work in connecting the WSC Proceedings and other WSC presentation material to the I-Sim and WSC Web sites has been instrumental in the establishment of WSC and its Proceedings as the premier international forum for rapid dissemination of new developments in discrete-event and combined discrete-continuous simulation.

2009: K. Preston White, Jr.
2008: Russell Barton
2007: Russell C. H. Cheng
2006: Not given
2005: Deborah Sadowski
2004: Not given
2003: Barry Nelson
2002: David Goldsman
2001: Not given
2000: Felix Breitenecker
1999: Jerry Banks
1998: W. David Kelton
1997: Bruce Schmeiser
1996: Thomas J. Schriber
1995: James R. Wilson
1994: Stephen D. Roberts
1993: Not given
1992: Not given
1991: A. Alan B. Pritsker
1990: George S. Fishman
1989: Harold Joseph Highland
1988: Robert G. Sargent
1987: Richard E. Nance
1986: John McLeod