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134. Wilson, J. R. 2012. “Advances in Simulation: The Interplay of Inspiration, Intuition, Abstraction, and Experimentation.”
Seminar for the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Graduate Program
in Operations Research, North Carolina State University, March 30, 2012. Available via www.ise.ncsu.edu/
jwilson/files/as12.pdf [accessed May 6, 2012].
INVOLVEMENT IN GRADUATE RESEARCH
Chair, Ph.D. Advisory Committees
1. James, R. L. 1981. Routing control in a packet-switched network. Operations Research Group, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
2. Eakle, J. D. 1982. Regenerative simulation using internal controls. Operations Research Group, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
3. Dickinson, R. T. 1983. A multiple ranking procedure adapted to discrete-event simulation. Operations Research
Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
4. Porta Nova, A. M. de O. 1985. A generalized approach to variance reduction in discrete-event simulation
using control variables. Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of
Texas, Austin, Texas.
5. Tew, J. D. 1986. Metamodel estimation under correlation methods for simulation experiments. School of
Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
6. Bauer, K. W. 1987. Control variate selection for multiresponse simulation. School of Industrial Engineering,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
7. Venkatraman, S. 1988. Modeling multivariate populations with translation systems. School of Industrial
Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
8. Diener, D. A. 1989. Forecasting air base operability in a hostile environment: Estimating metamodels from
large-scale simulation. Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. (Cochair
with Professor R. D. Plante, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.)
9. Avramidis, A. N. 1993. Variance reduction techniques for simulation with applications to stochastic networks.
School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. (A paper from this dissertation
was awarded First Place in the 1993 George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Operations
Research Society of America.)
10. Flanigan, M. A. 1993. A flexible, interactive, graphical approach to modeling stochastic input processes. School
of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. (Cochair with Professor S. D. Roberts,
Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University and Professor A. L. Sweet, School of
Industrial Engineering, Purdue University. A paper from this dissertation received the IIE Transactions “Best
Paper Award for 1996” from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.)
11. Hurley, B. J.. 1994. Simulation-based optimization of design, operation, and control factors for a manufacturing
cell. Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. (Cochair
with Professor Jaime Trevino, Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University.)
12. Lee, J.-Y. 1995. Faster simulated annealing techniques for stochastic optimization problems, with application
to queueing network simulation. Operations Research Program and Department of Statistics, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. (Cochair with Professor John F. Monahan, Department of Statistics,
and Professor Moon W. Suh, Department of Textile and Apparel Management, North Carolina State University.)