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Proceedings of the 24th conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Pages: 198 - 204

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-7803-0798-4

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Farhad Azadivar

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ASA : American Statistical Association
NIST : National Institue of Standards & Technology
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-SMCS : Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
ORSA : Operations Research Society of America
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
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IIE : Institute of Industrial Engineers
SCS : Society for Computer Simulation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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