GUIDE TO EXHIBITORS

AIMMS®- PRODUCT OF PARAGON DECISION TECHNOLOGY - #200
www.aimms.com

Paragon will be introducing AIMMS 3.8, the latest release of AIMMS. Stop by the booth, our software demo, presentations and pre-conference workshop presented with Ziena Optimization (KNITRO). Collect your free trial at the meeting, or visit our Web site now for a trial to enjoy the AIMMS experience.

AMPL OPTIMIZATION LLC - #207
www.ampl.com

AMPL Optimization LLC develops and supports the AMPL modeling language, and distributes large-scale solvers and modeling tools including Ziena’s KNITRO, ARKI’s CONOPT, and OptiRisk’s FortMP/QP/SP, SAMPL/SPInE, AMPL Studio and Windows COM objects. Over 30 other solvers work with AMPL; recent extensions support new features of KNITRO 5.0 and CPLEX 10.0.

APTECH SYSTEMS, INC. - #214
www.aptech.com

The GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System is a fast matrix programming language widely used for solving mathematical and statistical problems. GAUSS is designed for computationally intensive tasks and suits the researcher who lacks time to develop programs in C or FORTRAN but finds statistical or mathematical packages inflexible and too limited.

ATEJI - #105
www.ateji.com

OptimJ is a new object-oriented modeling language designed as a Java extension with support under Eclipse. It provides a revolutionary new way to integrate optimization techniques in general IT environments, where models directly use existing data structures and libraries. OptimJ provides all features of mainstream modeling languages and can be backed by any solver engine.

COIN-OR - #315
www.coin-or.org

Visit the Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research booth to learn about free, open-source tools for O.R. professionals and students. COIN-OR is in its seventh year as a community initiative to build an open infrastructure of algorithms, models, data and other digital tools. COIN-OR is hosted online by INFORMS and is a strategic partner of the INFORMS Computing Society.

DARDEN BUSINESS PUBLISHING - #312
www.dardenpublishing.com

Darden Business Publishing produces and distributes the case collection of the Darden School of Business. We will showcase a dynamic catalog of thought-provoking materials that includes paper cases, multimedia cases and courseware, and interactive simulations that are relevant to operations management and IT subject matter.

DASH OPTIMIZATION - #310
www.dashoptimization.com

Dash Optimization develops and markets Xpress-MP, the world’s leading software product for modeling and optimization. Our booth will feature live demonstrations of Dash’s Xpress-MP products. Dash offers linear, mixed integer, quadratic, non-linear and stochastic programming capabilities. All of these components will be showcased using powerful development and deployment tools such as Xpress-Mosel, Xpress-IVE and Xpress Application Developer (XAD).

DECISIONWARE LTDA. - #113
www.decisionware-ltd.com

DecisionWare is the first Colombian company that specializes in designing, developing, implementing and supporting Decision Support Systems for all areas of the value chain. Our solutions for the supply chain help to drastically reduce operation costs, while the ones oriented to the demand chain raise income and general enterprise revenue.

ELSEVIER - #206
www.elsevier.com

Elsevier publishes many reputable O.R. journals including Operations Research Letters, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, Omega and European Journal of Operational Research, as well as many O.R. related journals. All journals are online at www. sciencedirect.com. The renowned Handbooks in Operations Researchand Management Scienceare now also online through ScienceDirect www.elsevier.com/locate/horms-online.

FRONTLINE SYSTEMS, INC. - #299
www.solver.com

Visit our booth to learn about new robust optimization and simulation technology you can use to allocate resources optimally when key factors are uncertain, from Frontline Systems, developer of the Excel Solver. Take home a free trial CD with Risk Solver, for risk analysis of Excel models, and Premium Solver Platform, by far the most advanced software for large-scale conventional and risk-based stochastic optimization.

GAMS DEVELOPMENT CORP. - #111
www.gams.com

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming problems. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers. GAMS is tailored to create complex, large-scale modeling applications, and allows the user to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

GOLDSIM TECHNOLOGY GROUP - #106
www.goldsim.com

GoldSim is a Windows-based probabilistic, dynamic simulation tool designed for building hierarchical models of complex systems to support strategic planning and risk management in business, engineering and science. GoldSim can simultaneously simulate continuous and discrete dynamics, and has add-in modules to facilitate financial modeling and risk and reliability analysis.

ILOG, INC. - #210/212
www.ilog.com

ILOG is the world leader in delivering optimization tools, engines and applications for solving the most challenging optimization problems. Attend our technical product workshop, software tutorial and visit our booth. See the release of CPLEX 11, with significant performance improvements, ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System and ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (ODM). Come and see why CPLEX is better than ever!

IMAGINE THAT, INC. - #211
www.imaginethatinc.com

Accessible, robust and intuitive, ExtendSim 7 sets a new standard for simulation software in educational and professional settings. Enhanced with 3D animation, integrated database and thoughtfully redesigned component libraries, ExtendSim maintains and enhances Extend’s reputation as the power tool for real-world simulation projects. For rapid, sound model building, choose ExtendSim – power tools for simulation.

JMP DIVISION-SAS INSTITUTE - #305
www.jmp.com

Who thought statistics could be this fun? SAS did. That’s why SAS developed JMP® over 15 years ago, and why SAS brings you the Student Edition now! A streamlined version of JMP software for elementary and intermediate courses is available exclusively with leading textbooks; makes statistics fun; reinforces understanding with easy-to-use interactive graphs; and teaches students to use statistics for real-world problems.

LINDO SYSTEMS, INC. - #201
www.lindo.com

LINDO Systems will highlight recent enhancements to our optimization modeling software including updates to the linear, integer and global solvers. We will be demonstrating LINDO API, our powerful solver engine; LINGO, our integrated modeling language and solvers; and What’sBest!, our large scale Excel solver. Stop by for a free trial CD.

LUMINA DECISION SYSTEMS, INC. - #313
www.lumina.com

Analytica is a graphic tool for creating and communicating quantitative models. Serious modelers prefer Analytica to spreadsheets because of its transparency, flexibility for multiple dimensions, efficient Monte Carlo, scalability and its powerful new Optimizer. Analytica models are typically 10 to 100 times more compact than equivalent spreadsheets, and correspondingly easier to build, understand and audit.

MAXIMAL SOFTWARE, INC. - #213
www.maximalsoftware.com

Maximal Software is the developer of MPL Modeling System, an advanced modeling language for formulating optimization models. We will demonstrate how MPL provides one of the fastest and most scalable modeling languages on the market, and how the OptiMax 2000 Component Library add-on can be used to build customized end-user applications to solve real-world optimization problems.

MCGRAW-HILL/IRWIN - #102
www.mhhe.com

McGraw-Hill is a premier publisher in operations management and decision sciences with leading textbooks and technology for introductory operations management, supply chain management, manufacturing planning and control, service operations, project management and simulation. We are committed to developing author-centered, market-driven texts and innovative educational technology of the highest possible quality.

ORACLE-CRYSTAL BALL GLOBAL BUSINESS UNIT - #317
www.crystallball.com

Visit the Oracle-Crystal Ball software booth for a tour of Crystal Ball software, the easiest tool available for performing Monte Carlo simulations and risk analysis within your own spreadsheets. Learn about improved reports, charts and graphs that vividly communicate the results of your analysis, giving you a credible picture of risk.

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN - #107
www.palgrave-journals.com

Palgrave Macmillan is a leading publisher of journals in information systems and technology, including the journals of the Operational Research Society: Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practiceand Journal of Simulation. We also publish International Abstracts in Operations Research, in connection with IFORS. 

PALISADE CORP. - #100
www.palisade.com

Palisade is the maker of the world’s leading risk and decision analysis software. The DecisionTools® Suite includes Precision Tree®, RISKOptimizer™, TopRank® and @RISK, a Monte Carlo simulation add-in for Microsoft Excel providing advanced uncertainty and risk modeling. Examine a free trial version at our Web site. Better DECISIONS by the NUMBERS.

RESPONSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES - #110
www.responsive.net

Excite and engage your students with our award-winning, competitive Web-based games. The games are used in operations management courses and supply chain management courses in more than 100 undergraduate and MBA-level programs to teach topics like capacity management, lead time management, inventory control, and supply chain design and logistics.

SALFORD SYSTEMS - #204
www.salford-systems.com

Salford Systems develops advanced statistical and data mining software, including the CART decision tree, MARS non-linear automated regression, TreeNet boosted decision trees, and Random Forests. Salford Systems strives to make the best academic research easily usable by the practicing data analyst and has recently won several distinguished international honors.

SAS INSITUTE INC. - #300
www.sas.com

Operations research works best when it works together with reliable data handling, analytics and reporting. That’s why SAS integrates operations research techniques including optimization, scheduling and simulation with a strong suite of data access and cleansing, analytic and information delivery capabilities. Stop by to see what’s new and what’s coming next from SAS.

SAS HIGHER EDUCATION CONSULTING - #302
www.sas.com/training/us/hec/

SAS Education offers a broad curriculum of SAS, JMP and statistical courses to support our users. The division administers the SAS Global Certification Program where users can earn globally recognized credentials for their knowledge. The Higher Education Consulting Program supports institutions of higher learning incorporating SAS into their curricula.

SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS - #104
www.siam.org

Visit the SIAM booth to check out our new publications, including titles in the MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization and other recently published and bestselling SIAM books, all available at a 30% conference discount. You’ll also find sample issues of SIAM’s renowned journals, including SIOPT, along with information and applications for anyone interested in becoming a SIAM member. And don’t forget to pick up a copy of SIAM News for the road.

SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS - #316
www.sra.org

The Society for Risk Analysis is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly, international society that provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management and policy relating to risk, in the context of risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at a local, regional, national or global level.

SOUTH-WESTERN, CENGAGE LEARNING - #301/303
www.cengage.com

South-Western, Cengage Learning strives to provide you the material needed to make decision science relevant and interesting to your students as they prepare for the world of work. As the top business publisher we can help you with the highest quality print and technology offerings for undergraduate as well as graduate business statistics, management science as well as operations and supply chain management courses.

SPRINGER - #203/205
www.springeronline.com

Springer is one of the largest scientific publishing companies in the world, with a portfolio of 4,000 new books per year and more than 1,200 journals. Springer’s Business and Management Program touches upon various subject areas such as applied and scientific management, finance, entrepreneurship, operations research and business information systems.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS - #215
www.sup.org

Featuring books by Rizova on formal and informal structures in an R&D laboratory; Hassan/Purser on time and temporality in the network society; Ledolter/Swersey on experimental design with applications in marketing and service operations; McCoy on organizational ethics; and Tabrizi/Tseng on taking advantage of business synergies in the US and China.

STATISTICS.COM - #216
www.statistics.com

XLMiner is the only comprehensive data mining add-in for Excel. Automatic partitioning into training, validation and test data. Neural nets, classification and regression trees, Bayes classifier, logistic and multiple linear regression, discriminant analysis, clustering, association rules, time series. Distributed by statistics.com, the leading provider of professional development courses in statistics.

STATPOINT, INC. - #311
www.statgraphics.com

Professionals worldwide rely on STATPOINT’s line of powerful, intuitive statistical software: the acclaimed STATGRAPHICSC Centurion XV, the pioneering statistical software for pocket devices STATGRAPHICSC Mobile, and now, the revolutionary STATGRAPHICSC Centurion MultiLingual which allows the interchanging of data input and output languages. STATPOINT brands provide unmatched solutions for achieving world-class quality.

SYNCOPATION SOFTWARE, INC. - #101
www.syncopationsoftware.com

Syncopation Software is a leading provider of business analytic tools for decision analysis, risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, fault tree analysis and real option valuation. Syncopation’s DPL Release 7.0 broadens its offering by bringing class-leading decision support analytics to portfolio prioritization in a packaged, turnkey solution.

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP/ CRC PRESS - #304/306
www.taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis is a premier publisher of books, journals and electronic databases in operations research and management science. Stop by our booth to peruse our latest offerings and pick up free samples of our journals. Purchase books during the exhibit and take advantage of our show discount. For more information, visit our Web site: www.crcpress.com.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ROLLA - #112
http://syseng.umr.edu

The Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla offers PhD and Master’s degrees in Systems Engineering and a Certificate in Systems Engineering, Network Centric Systems and Financial Engineering. Students all around the world participate in classes online with the assistance of a state of the art Video Communications Center. Contributions from over 30 faculty offer a distinct interdisciplinary learning atmosphere.

VOSE CONSULTING - #307
www.voseconsulting.com

Vose Consulting is a specialist risk analysis consulting, software and training firm that since 1988 has helped industry and government make better decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty through the highest quality risk analysis methods. Learn about our recently released software package ModelRisk for Insurance and Finance by stopping at our booth, software demo or workshop. ModelRisk helps users incorporate advanced quantitative risk analysis techniques that were previously not available in spreadsheet environments. We look forward to meeting you!

WILEY-BLACKWELL - #103
www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell publishes internationally renowned books and more ISI-ranked journals than any other publisher. In February 2007 Blackwell Publishing merged with John Wiley & Sons to become Wiley-Blackwell. Please stop by our booth for free journal samples or visit our Web site for more information on all of our publications.

XJ TECHNOLOGIES - #217
www.xjtek.com

AnyLogic Multi-Approach Simulation Tool is a simulation tool supporting process-centric (discrete event), system dynamics and agent based modeling approaches. The flexibility of the modeling language enables the user to capture the complexity and heterogeneity of business, economy and social systems at any desirable level of details. AnyLogic’s set of primitives and library objects allows you to model manufacturing, logistics, business processes, human resources, and consumers’ and patients’ behavior in their natural interaction. AnyLogic object-oriented model design paradigm provides for modular and incremental construction of large models.

ZIENA OPTIMIZATION, INC. - #202
www.ziena.com

KNITRO Optimization Solver is designed for difficult large-scale optimization problems. Preferred by Fortune 100 global corporations, KNITRO easily plugs into all major modeling environments to serve as your “All-in-One Solver” with: robust LP and NLP algorithms (MINLP soon); real-time thread-safe application architecture; and responsive technical support and expert consulting.