Guide to
Exhibitors
The INFORMS Annual Meeting 2001
will be held at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort & Towers, November
4-7. Following is a list of companies and organizations that will be
exhibiting at the meeting. All attendees are encouraged to visit the
exhibit area. For more information about the meeting, go to www.informs.org/Conf/Miami2001
.
Applied Decision Analysis
68 Willow Rd.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-688-8600
Booth # 8
www.adainc.com
DPL
(Decision Programming Language) is decision analysis software developed to
meet the requirements of decision-makers in business and government. DPL
offers an advanced synthesis of the two major decision-making tools,
influence diagrams and decision trees, which assist in structuring
complete and focused analyses. DPL's powerful solution algorithms and many
graphical outputs provide comprehensive and insightful results.
AutoSimulations Div. of Brooks Automation
655 Medical Dr.
Bountiful, UT 84010
801-298-1398
Booth
# 19
www.autosim.com
AutoMod™ allows you to experiment in the virtual
world to save time and money in the real world. AutoMod, an easy to use,
true-scale 3D simulation tool combines the ease of a simulator with the
power of a simulation language and includes templates for material
handling, manufacturing and continuous flow. Come see why AutoMod is the
simulation software of choice.
Decisioneering, Inc.
1515 Arapahoe St., Ste. 1311
Denver, CO 80202
303-534-1515
Booth # 12
www.decisioneering.com
Decisioneering,
Inc. is the leading provider of risk management
software and solutions that simplify analysis and improve decision-making. The
company provides a comprehensive suite of tools for desktop and
Web-based risk analysis, optimization and forecasting. Decisioneering
users are found in over 85% of Fortune 1000 companies, with a significant
presence in the finance, petroleum, pharmaceutical and manufacturing
industries.
Duxbury/Thomson Learning
10 Davis Dr.
Belmont, CA 94002
650-595-2350
Booths # 25 & 26
www.duxbury.com
Celebrating
our 30th year, Duxbury, a division of Thomson Learning, publishes
exclusively in the field of statistics and quantitative methods, in all
areas of application and for all levels of learning. Duxbury is dedicated
to publishing the very best and innovative ideas while crafting the
highest quality products.
Elsevier
Science
P.O. Box 1991
1000 BZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
31-20-485-2467
Booth # 16
All Elsevier journals are
on ScienceDirect, www.sciencedirect.com, the world's largest database of scientific
articles. If your institution does not have access to ScienceDirect, check
with your librarian or see a more limited service for the OR/MS community
at www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw,
which also features the Handbooks of OR/MS.
Frontline
Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 4288
Incline Village, NV 89450
775-831-0300
Booth # 30
www.frontsys.com
Frontline
Systems’ Premium Solver products are compatible upgrades to the Excel
Solver featuring linear, integer and nonlinear programming, global
optimization, constraint programming, and genetic and evolutionary
algorithms. Our Solver DLL products make optimization easy-to-use in any
Windows application program. At INFORMS Miami we’ll demonstrate our most
powerful nonlinear optimizers ever.
GAMS
Development Corp.
1217 Potomac St. NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-342-0180
Booth # 2
www.gams.com
GAMS is the leading tool to develop models for
mathematical programming problems. It is currently used in nearly
every country in the world for modeling large, complex optimization
problems in academia, industry and government. GAMS allows the
flexibility to develop several model types and has excellent documentation
and debugging features.
IBM
4255 South Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY
12601
845-435-1453
Booths # 34 & 35
jlange@us.ibm.com
IBM's
Optimization Solutions - Version 3: IBM's Optimization Solutions products
are used by operations research, management science and mathematics
professionals worldwide to solve large, complex problems in finance,
insurance, transportation, process and manufacturing industries and are
used extensively in business intelligence and supply chain applications.
ILOG, Inc.
1080 Linda Vista Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-567-8000
Booth # 9
www.ilog.com
Providing
leading mathematical programming, constraint programming, and hybrid
optimization products, technology and professional services. ILOG at
INFORMS 2001: unveiling
exciting new technology and product releases for CPLEX, OPL Studio and
other products in the ILOG Optimization Suite. Stop by our booth or attend
our software demo session to learn more. Trial CD giveaway!
Imagine That, Inc.
6830 Via Del Oro, Ste. 230
San Jose, CA 95119
408-365-0305
Booth # 39
www.imaginethatinc.com
The world's most progressive companies use Extend™
to solve their complex modeling problems. Extend is also the most popular
simulation tool for textbooks. It's clear that obtaining accurate results
and developing an understanding of process dynamics is as important to
educators as it is to corporations. That’s the advantage of Extend.
INFORMS
901 Elkridge Landing Rd., Ste. 400
Linthicum, MD 21090
800-446-3676/410-850-0300
Booths # 20 & 21
informs@informs.org
Have
a membership question? Want to know what's going on at the Institute? Need
to know the most current benefits and services or the hottest industry
trends? Stop by the INFORMS booth to talk to the staff. We have the latest
information on networking, meetings, publications, industry happenings and
benefits and services. We look forward to seeing you!
INFORMS Meetings 2002
One Richmond Square, #215
Providence, RI 02906
800-343-0062/401-274-2525
meetings@informs.org
Stop
by the booth for all the exciting details on 2002 meetings. Analyzing
and Enhancing the Extended Enterprise, May 2002, a conference
highlighting real-world applications, best practices and professional
development tutorials. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2002 takes place in San
Jose, the Capital of Silicon Valley and the crossroads of high-tech movers
and shakers.
John Wiley
& Sons, Inc.
605 Third Ave.
New York, NY 10158
212-850-6000
Booths # 22 & 23
www.wiley.com/college
Experience the Wiley difference! Make sure to visit
the John Wiley & Sons, Inc. booth – the place to be! Wiley is
committed to quality texts in information systems and decision sciences
offering an array of specialized services and print/multimedia materials
to instructors and students – take a look for yourself!
Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Dr.
Norwell, MA 02061
781-871-6600
Booths # 10 & 11
www.wkap.com
Kluwer
Academic Publishers will have sample copies of our research journals on
display as well as new titles including: the six volume Encyclopedia of
Optimization edited by C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos, Transportation
Systems Engineering: Theory and Methods by E. Cascetta, and Principles
of Forecasting by S. Armstrong. Visit
our booth for the latest research publications offered at a conference
discount.
LINDO Systems,
Inc.
1415 North Dayton St.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-988-7422
Booth # 37
www.lindo.com
LINDO
Systems will be highlighting recent software enhancements and
demonstrating our new callable LINDO API. We will also be demonstrating:
LINDO, our powerful solver engine; LINGO, our integrated modeling language
and solvers; and What'sBest!, our large scale Excel solver. Stop by our
booth and pick up a free trial CD.
Maximal
Software, Inc.
2111 Wilson Blvd., #700
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-7900
Booth # 33
www.maximal-usa.com
We will demonstrate the OptiMax 2000, an extensive
Component Library (API) designed to take full advantage of the ActiveX
Automation component software technologies from Microsoft. OptiMax 2000
allows the model developer to seamlessly integrate MPL into VBA for
Excel/Access, Visual Basic, and Visual C++, thus easily creating
customized end-user applications to solve real-world optimization
problems. We will also demonstrate MPL for Windows 5.0.
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Two Penn Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10121
212-904-2892
Booths # 14 & 15
www.mhhe.com/irwin
McGraw-Hill publishes market-leading texts by
leading researchers and authors in their respective fields. We are
working at the forefront of technology to develop innovative tools to
support learning and teaching in the new millennium. Please visit our
booth for a review of our latest titles and meet our wonderful staff!
Palgrave
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6XS
United Kingdom
44-1256-302999
Booth # 13
www.palgrave.com
Palgrave
– global academic publishing from St. Martin’s Press. We publish
leading operations research and management science journals and books,
including Journal of the Operational
Research Society, the longest established OR journal in the world.
Visit us at the INFORMS Miami Beach meeting or at our Web site.
Palisade Corp.
31 Decker Rd.
Newfield, NY 14867
607-277-8000
Booth # 4
www.palisade.com
Palisade
Corporation is the industry leader in analytical software for risk and
decision analysis. Our
products enhance any serious decision-maker's toolkit. The
Palisade product line features the DecisionTools Suite: @RISK, TopRank,
PrecisionTree, BestFit and RISKview, as well as Evolver, RISKOptimizer,
@RISK for Project, and @RISK Developer's Kit. These tools perform risk and
decision analysis in Excel.
Prentice Hall
10 Mountainview Rd.
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
201-785-2843
Booth # 3
www.pearsoned.com
Prentice
Hall is the premier publisher for decision sciences and business
statistics. Interested in well-known author teams? Using technology in
class? Online Solutions? Stop by our booth to learn more about our
websites, WebCT, Blackboard courses, and our latest texts by Krajewski/Ritzman,
Levine/Stephan/Krehbiel/Berenson, Berenson/Levine/Krehbiel, Hanna/Newman,
Shannon/Groebner/Fry/Smith, Chopra/Meindl, Heizer/Render, Taylor, Foster,
Nicholas, Russell/Taylor, Evans/Olson and more.
Rockwell Software
504 Beaver
St.
Sweickley, PA 15143
412-741-3727
www.rockwell.com
Booth # 24
Arena®
simulation software from Rockwell Software offers the unparalleled
ease-of-use, flexibility and domain expertise required for modeling any
aspect of a business enterprise. The Arena product family supports both
in-depth analyses of a particular functional area (e.g.,
manufacturing, logistics, customer service) and analysis of processes that
span several functional areas.
Sage Publications
2455 Teller Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
805-499-0721
Booth # 17
www.sagepub.com
Sage Publications,
a leading international publisher of journals, books and electronic media,
celebrated 35 years of global publishing excellence in 2000. We provide
researchers, professionals, scholars, policymakers and students with the
tools and information they need to succeed. Please stop by our booth or
visit our Web site to review our publications and/or discuss your
publishing ideas.
SAS
SAS Campus Dr.
Cary, NC 27513
919-531-6916
Booth # 7
www.sas.com
Tackle today’s complex strategic and tactical
planning problems with integrated, customizable management science and
supply chain solutions from SAS. Stop by our booth to see why
decision-makers around the world rely on SAS solutions to turn data into
information, uncover the best options and provide critical decision
support reporting.
SchedulExpert, Inc.
117 Oak Hill Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-257-2359
Booth # 32
www.schedulexpert.com
SchedulExpert,
Inc. sells software for optimizing course schedules in post-secondary and
large-scale corporate training environments. Both products generate
conflict-free schedules, have user-friendly GUIs, incorporate numerous
constraints and preferences, and allow users to set the relative priority
of 10+ objectives. Details and trial software are available at our
Web site.
South-Western/Thomson Learning
10 Davis Dr.
Belmont, CA 94002
650-595-2350
Booth # 27
www.swcollege.com
South-Western,
a division of Thomson Learning, is an industry-leading provider of
business and economics educational materials worldwide. South-Western
develops innovative resources for the higher education, secondary
education, professional, corporate and retail markets. Our history of
innovative success began over a century ago, and continues today with
diversified product lines that meet the emerging needs of our learning
markets and integrate the latest digital technologies for more flexible,
comprehensive solutions.
Springer-Verlag
New York, Inc.
175 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10010
212-460-1500
Booth # 38
www.springer-ny.com
Stop
by our booth and save 20% on all our titles! Springer-Verlag publishes a
wide range of books and journals in operations research and management
science.
Wolfram Research,
Inc.
100 Trade Center Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820
217-398-0700
Booth # 6
www.wolfram.com
Mathematica is the world’s most powerful
technical computing system. Used by over a million people in science,
industry and academia, Mathematica combines fast, high-precision numeric
and symbolic computation with easy-to-use data visualization and
programming capabilities. Mathematica creates publication-quality
documents with its customizable, cross-platform file format.
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