IEEE/CS :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Computer Society
ASA :
American Statistical Association
IEEE/SMCS :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
INFORMS/CS :
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences/College on Simulation
NIST :
National Institute of Standards and Technology ACM:
Association for Computing Machinery
(SCS) :
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International SIGSIM:
ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
IIE :
Institute of Industrial Engineers
In this panel, principal members of seven leading simulation-software companies discuss two important questions concerning the current and future status of simulation software.