William A. Wallace (organizational theorist)
# William A. Wallace (organizational theorist)

William A. Wallace (often referred to as William "Al" Wallace) is an American systems and infrastructure engineering expert. He is professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the department of decision sciences and engineering systems, and holds joint appointments in cognitive sciences and civil and environmental engineering. He is research director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies.

## Education and early life

Wallace gained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958, and his M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) in management science from Rensselaer, His doctoral thesis was entitled Producer Learning: An Adaptive Control Process. He also served in the U.S. Navy.

## Research

Wallace's research interests center around decision support systems, the process of modeling and emergency management. His work has focussed on transportation, infrastructure and in particular computer-based simulation and modeling, notably of emergency transport and other major incident management.

Wallace was the founding co-editor, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

