9:10am-10:00am
Ziena Optimization, Inc.
KNITRO 5.2: New Features and Performance Improvements
Richard Waltz, President
Performance has significantly improved with the 2008 release of KNITRO 5.2. We will describe the new innovations and features of KNITRO. In addition, we will provide advice on how to most effectively use KNITRO for challenging models through concrete examples.
10:30am-11:20am
Salford Systems
Introducing New Release of CART 6.0 PRO EX
Dan Steinberg, CEO, President and Founder
Salford Systems is unveiling CART 6.0 PRO EX, our most robust version of our award-winning CART software including substantive patent-pending technology. The new version includes innovative tools and diagnostics for assessing the quality and reliability of a CART model and extensive modeling automation to accelerate the process of finding high performance models. CART 6.0 PRO EX also includes new methods for uncovering "hotspots," segments of extraordinarily high value or risk, and new controls for shaping and structuring trees to reflect the needs of the researchers and modelers.
11:30am-12:20pm
AIMMS® - Product of Paragon Decision Technology
AIMMS - Enabling OR and Sharing y’OR Results
Gertjan de Lange, VP Sales & Marketing
Peter Nieuwesteeg, Senior AIMMS Specialist
With the latest release, AIMMS lives up to its leading capabilities for usage and deployment of OR techniques. The already sophisticated features are extended with Benders Decomposition techniques, NLP multi-start and pre-solve options, extended GUI capabilities, and more. The introduction of the AIMMS Viewer©, a freely distributable version of AIMMS, will revolutionize the OR community enabling them to step out. Pack and share your results with anyone in a matter of minutes and give insight in your solutions to people without OR knowledge, allowing them to make better decisions. In this demo, we will show you how you can enable OR and share y’OR results! Register for our free pre-conference workshop to find out why AIMMS is the modeling tool of choice. Sunday April 13. Come by our booth, or visit the AIMMS website www.aimms.com for a free trial.
2:00pm-2:50pm
LINDO Systems, Inc.
Efficient Tools for Optimization Modeling
Mark Wiley, VP Marketing and Gautier Laude, Software Development Manager
Come and see how easy it is for you to:
• Quickly build complex linear, nonlinear, global and integer optimization models
• Easily access data from Excel and databases
• Seamlessly embed a solver into your own application.
Find out about the latest enhancements to our line of solvers including improvements to the linear, integer, and global solvers. See a demonstration of the newest releases of:
• LINDO API - a callable solver engine
• LINGO - an integrated modeling language and solvers
• What'sBest - a large-scale solver for Excel.
We will illustrate the features and benefits as well as provide a brief modeling tutorial.
3:30pm-4:20pm
Frontline Systems, Inc.
Risk Analysis and Robust Optimal Solutions: High Productivity Modeling in Excel
Daniel H. Fylstra, President
More than ever today, models for risk analysis and optimal resource allocation in the presence of uncertainty can be built more easily, scaled up to large size and solved more effectively in Microsoft Excel. Robust optimization and stochastic programming models, traditionally so hard to build that many modelers don’t even try, are extremely easy to create and solve in Excel. Access to disparate data sources, often a headache with other tools, is surprisingly simple in Excel. Imagined “limits” have disappeared, and large-scale models are commonplace in industry. This session will demonstrate the tools and open your eyes to new possibilities.
4:30pm-5:20pm
Innovative Scheduling, Inc.
Turning Network Models into Decision Support Systems
Ravindra K. Ahuja, President
Innovative Scheduling is engaged in building custom decision support systems to solve planning and scheduling problems arising in the field of logistics, distribution and transportation. In the past few years, we have successfully solved some very difficult optimization problems through cutting-edge network optimization techniques that were considered to be intractable before. In this tutorial, we will give an overview of the decision problems we have solved using decomposition and network-flow based techniques and the methodology we have used. We will also give demonstrations of some of the decision support systems built by us.
Track 8
10:30am-11:20am
DecisionWare Ltda.
OPTEX Mathematical Modeling System
Camilo Valero, Managing Director
OPTEX Mathematical Modeling System is the technological tool that supports all IT projects developed by DecisionWare Ltd, a technology-based Colombian company oriented to provide solutions founded in decision support systems (DSS) based on large scale optimization models, through the integration of mathematical programming technologies, as a solution to many problems in industry. The solutions founded in OPTEX are competitive and comparable to world quality software available for the development of DSSs. In addition, its effectiveness has been proven in real-world projects beginning in 1991, with one of the largest Latin American companies, continuing until today and including many projects in multiple applications fields.
11:30-12:20
LLamasoft, Inc.
Supply Chain Guru TM: Combining Optimization and Simulation Technologies
Toby Brzoznowski, VP, Sales and Marketing
LLamasoft Inc. develops advanced software applications for supply chain network design, inventory optimization, and "what-if" scenario analysis. This session will provide a live look at Supply Chain GuruTM, the tool of choice for strategic planning in many of the world's largest organizations including Dell, Unilever, General Mills, JCPenney, and Bose. Supply Chain GuruTM combines optimization and simulation technologies in a single modeling application to support supply chain improvement initiatives.
2:00pm-2:50pm
River Logic
Enterprise Optimizer® - Enterprise Modeling System for Integrated Business Planning
Brian Downs, Director of Consulting Services
River Logic’s flagship product, Enterprise Optimizer® (EO), is much more than just another modeling and optimization tool. This tutorial will demonstrate how EO’s intuitive drag and drop modeling interface is used to rapidly develop models of any business process while simultaneously producing audit-quality financial reports. EO’s wizard-driven data integration, powerful query generation, and rapid dashboard creation capabilities will also be used to show how OR practitioners can quickly deliver an integrated, holistic model of the enterprise that is transparent to the users of model solutions. EO’s unique capability to simultaneously model process and financial outcomes will be illustrated with real-world applications.
3:30pm-4:20pm
Fair Isaac
Building Optimization Applications in Xpress-MP
Horia Tipi, Software Engineer-Principle Engineer
This tutorial will focus on developing and deploying complete optimization applications using Fair Isaac’s array of mathematical modeling and optimization tools. These tools can be used for modeling, solving, analyzing and visualizing optimization problems, and integrating them seamlessly in business applications. During this tutorial we will explain how Xpress-Mosel, Xpress-IVE and Xpress-Application Developer can decrease development time for new optimization applications and enable you and your customers to make smarter decisions. The proven technologies offered by Fair Isaac can be used in a range of applications such as supply chain management, transportation, finance, energy, manufacturing, retail, insurance and manufacturing industries, to name a few.
4:30pm-5:20pm
Demand Works
Demand Works Smoothie™
Bill Tonetti, President
This tutorial will focus on the Demand Works Smoothie™ software for forecasting, demand management and supply policy simulation. Attendees at this session will receive an overview of the Demand Works company and solutions, as well as a demonstration.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Track 15
9:10am-10:00am
ILOG, Inc.
ILOG CPLEX 11
Irv Lustig, ILOG Direct Channel, Director
Join us for an overview of ILOG CPLEX 11, the latest version that delivers the most significant performance gains to date and leverages the full power of multi-core machines. Learn how CPLEX’s algorithmic innovations and parallel search can solve your most challenging MIP problems. Learn how to make the most of the latest features. Come and see why CPLEX is better than ever!
10:30am-11:20am
Maximal Software, Inc.
Introducing New Release of MPL Modeling System for Optimization with New and Enhanced Features
Bjarni Kristjansson, President
We will be demonstrating the newest release of MPL, one of the fastest and most scalable modeling languages on the market today. The innovative OptiMax 2000 Component Library, which allows MPL models to be easily embedded into end-user applications, has been augmented to include several new objects and methods. The speed and scalability of the model generation has been greatly enhanced, and with the new 64-bit Itanium version capable of solving much larger models than ever before. Several new solvers have been added and existing solvers updated. Data access has been improved with new native drivers and now offers full XML/SOAP support for Internet connectivity.
11:30am-12:20pm
AMPL Optimization LLC
Enhanced Solver Support in the AMPL® Modeling Language
Robert Fourer, Principal
AMPL has set the standard for optimization modeling languages that handle complex models naturally and large models efficiently. As a result, it is available for many more solvers than competing products. Bob Fourer, an AMPL developer, will give a quick but lucid tour of AMPL's current solver support, with emphasis on recent enhancements to AMPL's facilities for optimization problems of varied kinds. Topics will include CPLEX 11's new convex quadratic, solution pool, and parameter tuning features; KNITRO 5.1's recognition of complementarity conditions, and LGO's facilities for global optimization, as well as support for open-source solvers from COIN-OR and other sources.
Track 16
10:30am-11:20am
Vanguard Software Corporation
Enterprise Modeling & Simulation
Rob Suggs, CEO
Enterprise Simulation (ES) is the application of modeling and simulation on an enterprise scale. It is a powerful technique for optimizing business performance by giving managers the ability to test ideas in a virtual world where mistakes are inexpensive. ES includes:
• Modeling complex systems including the operations of an entire company;
• Involving all stakeholders directly in the construction and maintenance of living models;
• Expanding the use of modeling to include employees at many skill levels.
We will demonstrate how the Vanguard System™, a Web-based planning and analysis system, gives companies the ability to realize the benefits of ES.
11:30am-12:20pm
SAS
Optimization in SAS with OPTMODEL
Ed Hughes, Product Manager
Trevor Kearney, Manager, Numerical Optimization R&D
SAS/OR’s 9.2 release (March 2008) continues enhancements to our new lineup of optimization modules. Foremost among these is OPTMODEL, featuring a powerful and intuitive algebraic language designed specifically for optimization modeling. We’ll demonstrate how OPTMODEL delivers value in its own right, not only by accessing all of the new SAS/OR optimization solvers (linear, mixed-integer, quadratic and general nonlinear), but also by supporting customized solution methods. We’ll also illustrate the benefits of OPTMODEL’s integration into the SAS language, and we’ll explore how the SAS business intelligence framework and JMP (a SAS product) can be used to create business user interfaces for optimization model deployment.
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