W. David Kelton is a Professor in the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as MSQA Program Director. He was formerly on the faculty at Penn State, the University of Minnesota, The University of Michigan, and Kent State. Visiting posts have included the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Warsaw School of Economics.
His research interests and publications are in the probabilistic and statistical aspects of simulation, applications of simulation, statistical quality control, and stochastic models. His papers have appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, the European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, among others.
He is co-author of Simulation with Arena, (now in its fourth edition), which has sold over 87,000 copies worldwide and has been referenced in over 170 refereed journal articles since 1998, receiving McGraw-Hill's award for Most Successful New Title in 1998; it has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. He was also coauthor of the first three editions of Simulation Modeling and Analysis for McGraw-Hill, which has sold over 109,000 copies worldwide and has been referenced in over 2,200 refereed journal articles since 1982, and received the Outstanding Publication Award of the INFORMS Simulation Society.
Grants have come from General Motors, Ford, Standard Oil, Cray Research, Apple Computer, Hennepin County (Minnesota), the Minneapolis Citizens Council on Crime and Justice, the Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, Vaughn Communications, Cincinnati Sub-Zero, Omnicare Inc., Revco Drug Stores, Baker/McKesson Automated Pharmacy Systems, Select Tool & Die Corporation, Procter & Gamble, and the University of Cincinnati Office of Research and Advanced Studies. He has consulted for NASA, Volvo, General Dynamics, Harper-Grace Hospitals, Pillsbury, 3M, Johnson Controls, Systems Modeling, SuperValu, SEMATECH, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, the Vienna (Austria) Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Army Logistics Management College. |
