The Lifetime Professional Achievement Award (LPAA) of the INFORMS Simulation Society is the highest honor given by the Society. The purpose of the award is to recognize major contributions to the field of simulation that are sustained over a professional career, with the critical consideration being the total impact of those contributions on computer simulation. Recipients of the LPAA include: Jack Kleijnen, George Fishman, Robert Sargent, Tom Schriber, Alan Pritsker and Julian Reitman.

An individual's contributions may fall in one or more of the following areas:

• Contributions to research
  
  
• Contributions to practice
  
  
• Dissemination of knowledge
  
  
• Development of software or hardware
  
  
• Service to the profession,
  
  
• Advancement of the status or visibility of the field

Given at most once a year, the award consists of a plaque and reasonable travel expenses incurred by the recipient when attending the presentation ceremony. This year's presentation will be made at the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9-12. Anyone is eligible to be nominated for the award, and the award may be given posthumously. Nominations may be submitted by anyone (including self-nominations), but they may not be made anonymously. The nominator is responsible for offering evidence of merit. This should include:

• A letter of nomination that includes a clear-cut, comprehensive description of the nominee's major contributions to the profession, with complete supporting documentation.
  
  
• At least three additional letters of endorsement providing evidence of the significance and magnitude of the nominee's professional achievements.
  
  
• The nominee's complete current resume.

Nominations for the award must be received no later than Sept. 1. Send completed nominations, including all supporting letters and documentation, in the form of pdf files attached to a single e-mail to Professor Jack Kleijnen (kleijnen@uvt.nl), chair of the LPAA Selection Committee.






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