Past Conferences

Below is information on the history of the Winter Simulation Conference. For the periods 1967-1968 and 1974-2014, the attendance figures shown below represent total paid attendance including students, but excluding exhibitor-only registrants. For the period 1969-1973, no surviving records of WSC attendance are held by any of the sponsoring societies. Consequently, attendance estimates were obtained by discussions with the Program Chairs and General Chairs for this period, namely, Harold Hixson, Julian Reitman, Arnold Ockene, Philip Kiviat, Michael Araten, Joseph Sussman, Austin Hoggatt and Michael Morris. Although the figures for the years 1969-1973 are subject to uncertainty, there is little doubt that in the period 1970-1971, attendance at the WSC was substantially higher than in all other years. In the following table, the abbreviations GC, PC, APC, PE, PCE, and APE denote General Chair, Program Chair, Associate Program Chair, Proceedings Editor, Proceedings Co-Editor, and Associate Proceedings Editor, respectively. The WSC Proceedings have been indexed in the ISI Proceedings since 2000.