Special Issue: Web-Based Simulation

area was first held in San Diego as part of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference. The session was jampacked, with well over 100 people in a very small room. In January 1998, we were given the opportunity to organize the first international conference on Webbased simulation within SCS and the WMC. Since then, a second conference has taken place this past January in San Francisco. The conference serves as an occasion