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                       AN INVITATION TO JOIN SNET

SNET is a recently activated facility operated by the Department of
Operations Research at Stanford University. The intent is to provide a
means of linking the widespread stochastic simulation community and to
facilitate the exchange of scientific and technical information within
the community. We would like to take this oppurtunity to invite you
to join this network.


SNET FEATURES

The following items are currently operational at SNET.

1) CENTRAL MAILER : This is a central mailing system, modelled on the
   highly successful central mailer used by NA-NET. In particular, to
   communicate via e-mail with another member of simulation community
   who is enrolled on SNET, only their last name need be remembered.
   For example, suppose that one wishes to send a message to John Doe.
   One simply mails the message to Doe@or.stanford.edu ; the mailing
   system then automatically forwards the mail to whatever current
   address John Doe has supplied to SNET. 

2) NEWS DIGEST : SNET will issue, on a regular basis, a news digest
   to its membership. This will consist of items sent by members for
   inclusion in the digest, as well as information gathered indepen-
   -dently that is considered to be of general interest to the stochastic
   simulation community. Among the items that may appear in the news
   digest are :

          a) meeting announcements.
          b) abstracts of new papers.
          c) book reviews.
          d) requests for mathematical results, models or software.
          e) open problems looking for a  solution.
          f) calls for papers.


3) WHITE PAGES : This is a directory service that permits members to
   list pertinent professional information about themselves that can 
   then be accessed by the rest of the SNET community.(SNET takes
   no responsibility for the accuracy of the listings.)  
         

The following items will be implemented within SNET in the near future.


4) SOFTWARE LIBRARY : SNET will offer a centralized library for accessing
   stochastic simulation software. A special emphasis will be placed
   on acquiring software that implements complex variate generation
   schemes, output analysis algorithms, and variance reduction method-
   -ologies. This can potentially play an important role in offering 
   simulation methodology to a broad user community and allowing
   developers of new techniques an enhanced ability to directly compare
   their results with those obtained via competing algorithms.


5) RESEARCH PAPER LIBRARY : SNET will offer electronically stored
   versions of recently completed research papers. Based on a maintained
   list of abstracts, users will then be able to select and obtain copies
   of the corresponding papers from this electronic library. It is hoped
   that this can have a positive impact on fostering rapid dissemination
   of research results throughout the community.


JOINING THE SNET
   
Everyone receiving this newsletter has automatically been enrolled as a 
TEMPORARY MEMBER of SNET. To become a PERMANENT MEMBER of SNET, you will
need to send mail to

  s-net@or.stanford.edu

by APRIL 17 AT THE LATEST. This e-mail message can be sent with a
blank subject field and blank message field. If you do not send such
a message by April 17, SNET will assume that you do not wish to remain
a member of this network and your name will automatically be deleted
from the SNET membership list.

Also, to receive the help manual for SNET, you simply need to send
e-mail at :

 snet.help@or.stanford.edu

As above, this message can be sent with a blank subject field and 
blank message field. This help manual will then automatically be
sent to you.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SNET.


SNET resides on a DEC Station 5000/200 and is maintained by Tzu-hui Yang,
a Ph.D. student associated with Department of Operations Research at
Stanford University, under the supervision of Professors Peter W. Glynn
and Donald L. Iglehart.

SNET takes advantage of software originally developed for NA-NET.
This activity is currently supported by the Army Research Office under
Contract No. DAAL03-91-G-0319.

SNET is a facility that is intended to be of value to academic, 
industrial, military, and  governmental users of stochastic simulation
models and methodologies. ( Please note, however, that all information
carried by S-NET is unclassified.) 


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           REQUEST TO SNET MEMBERSHIP

    As you may already be aware, SNET is an electronic network
that is intended to link members of the stochastic simulation
community. In getting this network off to a good start, it would
be a great help if you could supply SNET with the
following types of information:

    1.) titles and abstracts of any of your recently
         completed papers;

    2.) any news items that you believe may be of general 
        interest to the simulation community;

    3.) brief descriptions of any simulation
        software that you would be willing to share with the general
        simulation community. ( We expect to have SNET's software
        library functioning soon.)

You can mail above information to "snet.digest@or.stanford.edu".

Thanks for your help with this!

CORRECTION: In the mail 'INVITATION TO JOIN SNET' it was wrongly mentioned
that to send mail to John Doe ( member of simulation community
enrolled in SNET) you need to mail the message at 'Doe@or.stanford.edu'.
You would actually need to send mail at 'snet.Doe@or.stanford.edu'.
If there are two or more members of SNET with the same last name, you
may need to add the initial of the first name to the lastname in the
address. Please refer to the help manual for more detailed information
on sending mail in such cases.


The help manual may be obtained by sending mail to 
'snet.help@or.stanford.edu'.
No subject field or message is required.