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The Winter Simulation Conference celebrates its 50th anniversary in December 2017. Over these years, it became one of the leading simulation conferences worldwide, with more than 600 annual participants and thousands of publications shaping the international simulation research. This chapter describes the history of the conference, presents some high-level statistics on attendance and publications, describes the current tracks of the conference, and presents the contributions of the various chapters of this book.
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General Purpose Simulation System.
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The first conference did not produce proceedings, but Julian Reitman edited a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics (Volume SSC-4, Number 4, November 1968) that contained some of the papers presented at the 1967 conference.
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Tolk, A., Fowler, J., Shao, G., Yücesan, E. (2017). A Brief Introduction to the Winter Simulation Conference. In: Tolk, A., Fowler, J., Shao, G., Yücesan, E. (eds) Advances in Modeling and Simulation. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64182-9_1
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