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A. Alan B. Pritsker
A. Alan B. Pritsker
Pages 254-259
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about a not very sophisticated article I had written on congestion theory and materials handling. Alan Pritsker, my correspondent, had just begun work on the modeling of queuing networks and wanted to share ideas.
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, an interdisciplinary academic program involving eight departments. The goal of LSS was to reform engineering education to address societal needs directly; the role of engineering in service to society was a recurrent theme throughout the rest of Alan's career.
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to evaluate the allocation of liver transplants based on a national waiting list ranked by sickest-patients first. The results of this study showed that an allocation procedure based on a national waiting list would result in many more deaths than an improved version of the existing procedure, as revealed by comprehensive experimentation with the UNOS Liver Allocation Model (ULAM)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT Professor Jim Wilson, head of the Edward P Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, not only helped me with the writing of this tribute, but also shared his copy of Alan's professional autobiography, Papers, Experiences, Perspectives, and the two reviews of Alan's life that are referenced herein.
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