AIMMS®
Product of Paragon Decision Technology
Booth # 206

www.aimms.com
We will present AIMMS 3.7, the new release of AIMMS. Stop by at our booth, software demo, or pre-conference workshop to check out this new AIMMS release. New features include: Integrated GIS support, Stochastic Programming support, new Syntax Editor, Parallel Solver Session support, Multi-Development features and more. AIMMS is the modeling tool of choice for OR professionals when developing optimization-based decision support solutions. It is used by leading companies in a wide range of industries in areas such as supply chain management, energy management, production planning, logistics, forestry planning, finance and consulting. Experience AIMMS 3.7 in more depth and register for the free pre-conference workshop "Optimization Modeling in AIMMS 3.7 -A Stochastic Approach" on Saturday afternoon (Nov 4). For details on AIMMS and a free trial go to www.aimms.com.

AMPL Optimization LLC
Booth # 111

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.
Booth # 109

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.

Bank of America
Booth # 115

www.bankofamerica.com
Seeking Quantitative Risk Analyst responsible for independently conducting quantitative analytics and complex modeling projects. Will lead efforts in development of new models, analytic processes or system approaches. Also, will work to create documentation for all activities and may work with technology staff in helping to design systems that will run developed models. Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Blackwell Publishing
Booth # 314

www.blackwellpublishing.com
Blackwell Publishing is a leading international publisher in the area of management. Our books and journals are available in over 2000 institutions worldwide. Please stop by our booth for complimentary copies of our journals and visit our website www.blackwellpublishing.com for information on all of our publications.

COIN-OR
Booth # 114

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 celebrating its sixth year as a community initiative to build an open infrastructure of algorithms, models, data and other digital tools. COIN-OR is hosted on-line by INFORMS.

Darden Business Publishing
Booth # 205

www.dardenpublishing.com
Darden Business Publishing provides case materials, textbooks and online learning sites generated by the renowned faculty at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. To explore our catalogue of interactive multimedia cases, innovative simulations and thought-provoking paper cases, visit www.DardenBusinessPublishing.com.

Dash Optimization
Booth # 308

www.dashoptimization.com
Dash Optimization develops and markets Xpress-MP, the world's leading software product for modeling and optimization. The booth will feature live demonstrations of Dash's Xpress-MP products. Dash offers linear, mixed integer, quadratic, non-linear and stochastic programming capabilities. These components will be showcased along with Dash's modeling and programming language Mosel, Xpress-IVE development environment, and Xpress-Application Developer, Dash's new API for GUI development using Mosel.

Decisioneering, Inc.
Booth # 107

www.crystalball.com
Crystal Ball® is a suite of Microsoft® Excel-based applications for Monte Carlo simulation, forecasting, optimization and real options analysis. Crystal Ball transforms your spreadsheets into dynamic models that solve almost any problem involving uncertainty, variability and risk. We provide software, training and consulting services to understand, communicate and manage risk.

Elsevier
Booth # 104

www.sciencedirect.com
Elsevier publishes many reputable OR 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 OR related journals. All journals are online at www.sciencedirect.com. The renowned Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science are now also online through ScienceDirect. 11 published and 5 forthcoming volumes.
www.elsevier.com/locate/horms-online.

Frontline Systems, Inc.
Booth # 307

www.solver.com
If you create optimization or simulation models, visit our booth for a free trial CD with our just-released Version 7.0 tools: Premium Solver Platform, with new support for Excel 2007 and million-row worksheets; Risk Solver Engine, for ultra-fast simulation in Excel; Solver Platform SDK, the fastest-growing toolkit for .NET, Java and MATLAB on Linux and Windows; and seven Solver Engines for your largest optimization models.

GAMS Development Corp.
Booth # 214

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 for complex, large scale modeling applications, and allows the user to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

ILOG, Inc.
Booth # 209

www.ilog.com
ILOG is the world leader in delivering optimization tools, engines and applications for solving the most challenging optimization problems. Attend our free technical product workshops and visit our booth. See what's new in ILOG CPLEX 10.1. See the new releases of ILOG OPL Development Studio 5.0 and ILOG Optimization Decision Manager 2.0 (ODM). What problems can we help you solve?

Imagine That, Inc.
Booth # 31

www.imaginethatinc.com
Accessible, powerful, and intuitive, ExtendSim 7 sets a new standard for simulation software in educational and professional settings. Stop by and see the new 3D animation, database and component libraries in the upcoming version. ExtendSim, reflecting your reality.

INFORMS
Booths # 310, 312

www.informs.org
Have a membership question? Want a look at the newest INFORMS publications? Need advice on marketing the profession? Stop by the INFORMS booth to talk to staff. We have the latest information on networking, meetings, publications, industry happenings, and benefits and services. New members: pick up your special membership gift. You can also pick up your prepaid copy of Tutorials in OR. We look forward to seeing you!

INFORMS Future Meetings
Booth # 314

www.informs.org/Conf/
Come to the booth for a preview of our future meetings!

JMP
Booth # 302

www.jmp.com
JMP is comprehensive, interactive statistical desktop software from SAS that provides a dynamic, interactive way to interact with and analyze data. Busy professionals can easily spot data patterns with one glance at a chart or graph, perform sequential analysis from that point, and compare the results all in one window.

Ketron Optimization
Booth # 113

www.ketronmn.com
Ketron Optimization specializes in design, development, and application of mathematical programming optimization and modeling software, and off-the-shelf decision support applications. The software is used as an optimization toolkit by analysts in every sector of the economy. Ketron also provides support for users of the software-support ranges from hotline assistance through complete application-system development.

LINDO Systems, Inc.
Booth # 300

www.lindo.com
LINDO Systems will be featuring our optimization modeling software for solving large scale linear, integer, nonlinear and global problems. 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.
Booth # 110

www.lumina.com
Analytica-beyond the spreadsheet: 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.
Booth # 202

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
Booth # 207

www.mhhe.com
McGraw-Hill is the leading provider of textbooks and technology applications in higher education, offering high quality and carefully developed content to support all courses. McGraw-Hill publishes market-leading projects in management science, operations management, operations research, supply chain management, project management, service operations, quality management, simulation and statistics.

Minitab, Inc.
Booth # 106

www.minitab.com
Minitab® is the leading statistical software package used in education. Instructors at more than 4,000 colleges, universities and high schools around the world use Minitab because it contains all the statistical methods students need and is powerful, reliable and easy to use. For a free demo, go to www.Minitab.com.

National Science Foundation
Booth # 312

www.nsf.gov
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency to promote the progress of science; advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure national defense. NSF is the major source of federal backing in many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences. NSF fulfills its mission by issuing limited-term grants--about 10,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years--to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. Most of these awards go to individuals or small groups of investigators. Others provide funding for research centers, instruments and facilities that allow scientists, engineers and students to work at the outermost frontiers of knowledge. NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible.

Palgrave Macmillan
Booth # 101

www.palgrave-journals.com
Palgrave Macmillan is a leading publisher of journals in operations research, including International Abstracts in OR (in connection with IFORS) and the journals of the OR society: Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practice and, new for 2006, Journal of Simulation.

Palisade Corp.
Booth # 108

www.palisade.com
Palisade Corporation is a leading global provider of risk management, decision analysis, optimization and statistical analysis software. @RISK, Palisade's flagship product, is a Monte Carlo simulation add-in for Microsoft Excel providing advanced uncertainty and risk modeling. Palisade's DecisionTools Suite, NeuralTools and StatTools significantly broaden and enhance decision processes dependent on data analysis.

Responsive Learning Technologies
Booth # 305

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
Booth # 213

www.salford-systems.com
Salford Systems will demo both RandomForests and TreeNet/MART, Leo Breiman's and Jerome Friedman's newest advances to data mining. Both RandomForests and TreeNet enable the modeler to construct predictive models of extraordinary accuracy. Models are built up gradually through a large collection of small trees, each of which improves on its predecessors through an error-correcting strategy.

SAS
Booth # 204

www.sas.com
OR professionals understand that operations research doesn't stand alone; success in OR is built on broad-based analytic strength. That's why SAS integrates operations research with a robust suite of data access and handling, analytic, and information delivery capabilities. Come see what's new and what's next in SAS optimization, simulation, scheduling and more.

SCA Technologies LLC
Booth # 102

www.sca-tech.com
SCA Technologies LLC is a leading software solutions and services provider in the area of predictive operations cost modeling and optimization. Our software enables global organizations with manufacturing and supply chains to identify opportunities that significantly improve their cost structure and efficiency to their decision-making processes.

SIAM
Booth # 211

www.siam.org
Visit the SIAM booth to check out our new publications. Browse recently published optimization and math programming books, get sample journal issues, and receive information on publishing with SIAM. Membership information and applications will be available for those individuals interested in becoming a SIAM member. Don't forget to pick up a copy of SIAM News for the road.

SIMUL8 Corporation
Booth # 305A

www.simul8.com
Here at SIMUL8 Corporation we are well known for our $1,495 fast and friendly simulation software. But did you know we also develop powerful embedded simulation solutions and systems, focused for particular business issues? We will be showing SIMUL8 software and some of these solutions during the exhibition.

South-Western/Thomson
Booths # 301, 303

www.swlearning.com
Thomson/South-Western 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 statistics, management science and operations management courses.

Springer
Booths # 208, 210, 212

www.springeronline.com
Welcome to the Springer booth! Browse our extensive product offerings in operations research and enjoy a 20% discount on all your purchases. Meet Gary Folven, Senior Editor in Business & OR. Help us celebrate publication of the 100th volume in Fred Hillier's International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. For more information, visit: www.springer.com.

Stanford University Press
Booth # 306

www.sup.org
Our featured imprints--Stanford Business Books and Stanford Economics and Finance--offer professional books with a foundation in the latest theory and academic research in operations management, economics, finance, business strategy, quantitative methods, innovation and technology as they impact the theory of the firm.

statistics.com
Booth # 215

www.statistics.com
Statistics.com is the leading provider of online professional development in statistics, featuring over 50 online courses. Distinguished experts answer your questions; there are no set times when you must be online. Statistics.com also sells XLMiner, the only comprehensive data mining add-in for Excel, and Resampling Stats for Excel.

StatPoint, Inc.
Booth # 112

www.statgraphics.com
StatPoint, Inc., developers of STATGRAPHICS statistical computing products, introduces STATGRAPHICS Mobile for handheld computers (Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, or compatible device running Windows Mobile 5) and STATGRAPHICS Centurion XV Multilingual Edition, allowing users to operate the program in one language while creating output in another.

Syncopation Software Limited
Booth # 203

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 forthcoming 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 LLC
Booths # 103, 105

www.taylorandfrancis.com
Taylor & Francis, incorporating Chapman & Hall/CRC, is a premier publisher of scientific books, journals and electronic databases. Please stop by our booth to see our latest books in operations research, pick up a free journal sample copy or buy a book at a conference discount of up to 25%.

Univ. of Maryland University College
Booth #310

www.umuc.edu/faculty/recruit
Knowledge is power - share it! Teach for UMUC part-time, full-time, anytime.

• Teach for an accredited global leader in online education.
• Choose a teaching format - on-site or online - that fits into your professional life.
• Receive support and guidance.
• Low student to faculty ratio.

USC-Viterbi School of Engineering
Booth # 304

www.den.usc.edu
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Distance Education Network provides the opportunity to earn a Master of Science degree in engineering ENTIRELY ONLINE, with no on-campus attendance required. Over 30 M.S. programs are offered, including Industrial & Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering.

Wiley
Booth # 201

www.wiley.com
Wiley is a global publisher of professional, consumer, scientific and technical books, journals, textbooks and education materials. Among its many imprints are the world renowned "For Dummies" line as well as Webster's New World, CliffNotes, Frommers, Betty Crocker books, and Jossey-Bass. To see more about these and our other imprints, visit Wiley at www.wiley.com.

Ziena Optimization, Inc.
Booth # 100

www.ziena.com
Ziena Optimization sells KNITRO, the premier solver for nonlinear optimization problems. KNITRO computes local minima for smooth functions, and handles nonlinear constraints (convex and nonconvex), bound constraints, MPECs, systems of equations, nonlinear least squares, LPs and QPs. KNITRO offers three different algorithms (interior point direct, interior point CG and active set), and a basic multi-start capability for global searching. KNITRO includes programmatic interfaces for C/C++, Fortran and Java, and is available as a solver for most modeling languages.