Invited Papers. - Modified Monte Carlo Methods Using Quasi-Random Sequences. - Simulated Annealing: Folklore Facts and Directions. - Two Approaches to the Initial Transient Problem. - Tables of (T M S) -Net and (T S) -Sequence Parameters. - New Developments in Uniform Pseudorandom Number and Vector Generation. - Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Particle Transport Problems. - Contributed Papers. - Non-Adaptive Coverings for Optimization of Gaussian Random Fields. - The Method of Fundamental Solutions and the Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Poisson's Equation. - Implementation of a Distributed Pseudorandom Number Generator. - On the Lattice Test for Inversive Congruential Pseudorandom Numbers. - Discrepancy Lower Bound in Two Dimensions. - Stable Estimators for Self-Adjusting Simulations. - A Comparison of Random and Quasirandom Points for Multidimensional Quadrature. - A Simulation Study of a Change-Point Poisson Process Based on Two Well-known Test Statistics. - A Quasi-Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Global Illumination Problem in the Radiosity Setting. - Multivariate Walsh Series Digital Nets and Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration. - Parallel Pseudorandom Number Generation Using Additive Lagged-Fibonacci Recursions. - Quasirandom Diffusion Monte Carlo. - Randomly Permuted (t m s) -Nets and (t s) -Sequences. - Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation: Algorithm and Applications. - A Coupled Monte Carlo/Explicit Euler Method for the Numerical Simulation of a Forest Fire Spreading Model. - Microcanonical Monte Carlo. - Computational Investigations of Low-Discrepancy Point Sets II. - Estimates for the Volume of Points of (0 s) -Sequences in Base b?s?2. Language: English