About the Author| Averill M. Law is President of Averill M. Law & Associates, Inc. (Tucson,
Arizona), a company specializing in simulation training, consulting, and software.
He was previously Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Arizona and
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–
Madison. He has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in industrial engineering and operations
research from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. in mathematics
from California State University at Long Beach, and a B.S. in mathematics from
Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Law has been a simulation consultant to organizations such as Accenture,
ARCO, Boeing, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office,
Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Aluminum, Kimberly-Clark, M&M/Mars, Navy Modeling
and Simulation Office, SAIC, Sandia National Labs, Swedish Defence Materiel
Administration, 3M, Tropicana, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Post Office,
Veteran’s Administration, and Xerox. He has presented more than 400 simulation
short courses in 17 countries, including in-house seminars for ALCOA, AT&T,
Boeing, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, CSX, GE, GM, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Los
Alamos National Lab, Missile Defense Agency, Motorola, NASA, National Security
Agency, Nortel, Northrop Grumman, 3M, Time Warner, UPS, U.S. Air Force,
U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Whirlpool, and Xerox.
He is the developer of the ExpertFit distribution-fitting software, which automates
the selection of simulation input probability distributions. ExpertFit is used
by more than 2000 organizations worldwide. He also developed the videotapes Simulation
of Manufacturing Systems and How to Conduct a Successful Simulation
Study.
Dr. Law is the author (or coauthor) of three books and numerous papers on
simulation, operations research, statistics, manufacturing, and communications
networks. His article “Statistical Analysis of Simulation Output Data” was the first
invited feature paper on simulation to appear in a major research journal. His series
of papers on the simulation of manufacturing systems won the 1988 Institute of
Industrial Engineers’ best publication award. During his academic career, the Office
of Naval Research supported his simulation research for 8 consecutive years. He
was President of the INFORMS College on Simulation. He wrote a regular column
on simulation for Industrial Engineering during 1990 and 1991. He has been the
keynote speaker at simulation conferences worldwide.
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