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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dr. Barry Nelson of Northwestern University recently contributed a perspective article to
<i>IISE Transactions</i>, entitled "Rebooting Simulation." In the article, Barry recaps the history and development of computer simulation in industrial engineering and argue that "<i>it is time to reboot simulation for industrial engineering</i>" in the era
of big data and big computing and for simulation to play a consequential role in model-based decisions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The article is now published online
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725854.2023.2261028?src=&">
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725854.2023.2261028?src=&</a> and will appear in print in the April 2024 Issue of
<i>IISE Transactions</i>. <b>The article is <u>free access</u> from now on and throughout 2024</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The 2023 Winter Simulation Conference is about to finish this year's gathering in San Antonio Texas. I thought it is fitting to bring this article to your attention. Hope you
enjoy reading it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Happy Holidays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Yu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yu Ding, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor in Chief,
<i>IISE Transactions</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Georgia Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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