Workshop: Simulation for Better Decisions in an Uncertain World, July 5-7, 2007 at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France

第一次INFORMS模拟学会研究研讨会将于2007年7月5-7日在欧洲工商管理学院法国枫丹白露校区举行。主题是模拟，以便在不确定的世界中做出更好的决策。研讨会的目标是将在各种理论、经验、应用和实施领域工作的领先研究人员聚集在一起，以思考一个核心问题：模拟如何最有效地支持更好的决策？更具体地说，这些主题包括以下内容。对于连续优化和离散优化，现有的模拟优化技术的优点和局限性是什么？我们可以利用与随机编程和稳健优化等密切相关学科的联系吗？敏感度分析、不确定性分析、决策对建模假设的稳健性、实施问题以及在具体应用中出现的特殊考虑在算法的选择及其性能中起到什么作用？对在各种应用中使用的现有模拟工具有什么要求？现有的仿真优化理论的差距在哪里？扩展的摘要将在WWW上公开提供，会议组织者将担任ACM建模和计算机模拟学报特刊的客座编辑，该特刊将以研讨会的精选文章为特色。

The first INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop will be held July 5-7, 2007 at the Fontainebleau, France campus of INSEAD. The theme is Simulation for better decisions in an uncertain world". The goal of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers working in a variety of theoretical, empirical, application and implementation domains in order to reflect on a central question: how can simulation most effectively support better decisions? More specifically, the topics include the following. What are the strengths and limitations of existing simulation optimization techniques for both continuous and discrete optimization? Can we exploit links with closely related disciplines, such as stochastic programming and robust optimization? What role do sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, the robustness of decisions to modelling assumptions, implementation issues, and special considerations that arise in specific applications have to play in the choice of algorithm and performance thereof? What demands are placed on existing simulation tools that are used in a variety of applications? Where are the gaps in existing simulation optimization theory? Extended abstracts will be made available openly on the WWW and the conference organizers will serve as guest editors in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation that will feature selected articles from the workshop.