INFORMS Annual Meeting Seattle 2007 - The Spirit of Technology
November 4-7, 2007 || Washington State Convention & Trade Center || Seattle, WashingtonSeattle
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Exhibitors-Reach 3500+ Key Decision-Makers

For exhibit booth reservations, the latest floor plan or any questions, contact Sandy Owens,
800-343-0062/401-722-2595 x203, sandy.owens@informs.org.

NEW - Revised exhibit hours!
Exhibits open on Sunday at 7:30pm. Wednesday is a full day of 50+ technical sessions. Please note the following set-up and hours of operation:

Exhibitor Set-up

Sunday

Nov. 4

12:00pm-5:00pm

Exhibition Hours

Sunday

Nov. 4

7:30pm-9:00pm
Welcome Reception

Monday

Nov. 5

9:00am-5:00pm

Tuesday

Nov. 6

9:00am-5:00pm

Wednesday

Nov. 7 

9:00am-3:30pm

Exhibition Tear-Down

Wednesday

Nov. 7 

3:30pm-6:00pm

           The Sunday Welcome Reception and Coffee Breaks will be held in the exhibit area.

 

Attendees – Become Informed Decision-Makers!

Access the latest software packages and research materials in the Exhibit Hall. Improve your ability as a competitive, state-of-the-art player in the field. Exhibiting companies present vital tools that will help you improve organizational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Software demonstrations and the latest research findings provide a hands-on opportunity to discover and to experiment with new products and services. Don’t miss out on the latest offerings from leading publishers and educational resource organizations.

 

Guide to Exhibitors
Washington State Convention & Trade Center

Coffee breaks, email and wireless will be located in the Exhibit Hall.

AIMMS®                                  
#200

A Product of Paragon Decision Technology
5400 Carillon Point
Kirkland, WA 98033
425-576-4060
www.aimms.com
Paragon will be introducing AIMMS 3.8, the latest release of AIMMS. Stop by the booth, our software demo, our presentations and/or the pre-conference workshop presented with Ziena Optimization (KNITRO). Collect your free trial at the conference, or visit our website now for a trial to enjoy the AIMMS experience.

AMPL Optimization LLC     
#207

900 Sierra Place SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-3379
847-846-8486
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

PO Box 250
Black Diamond, WA 98010
425-432-7855
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

14 Rue Soleillet
Paris 75020
France
+33-1-4033-3846
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 
#117

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.

Dash Optimization
#310

560 Sylvan Ave.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
201-567-9445
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.
#312

Cra 7a N. 88-16 of 202
Bogotá
Colombia
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

360 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10010
212-633-3756
www.elsevier.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 www.elsevier.com/locate/horms-online.

Frontline Systems, Inc.           
#299

P.O. Box 4288Incline Village, NV 89450
775-831-0300
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

1217 Potomac St. NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-342-0180
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

22516 SE 64th Place
Issaquah, WA 98027
425-295-6985
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

1080 Linda Vista Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-567-8000
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

6830 Via Del Oro, Ste. 230
San Jose, CA 95119
408-365-0305
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.

INFORMS                                
#114/116

7240 Parkway Drive, Ste. 310
Hanover, MD 21076
1-800-4INFORMs
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. We look forward to seeing you!

JMP Division – SAS Institute
#305

SAS Campus Dr.
Cary, NC 27513
919-531-0196
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

1415 North Dayton St.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-988-7422
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

26010 Highland Way
Los Gatos, CA 95033
650-212-1212
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

2111 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 700
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-7900
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

Two Penn Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10121
212-904-2892www.mhhe.comMcGraw-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.

National Science Foundation
#314

2100 Reston Pkwy., Ste. 350
Reston, VA 20191
www.nsf.gov
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 and computer science. NSF fulfills its mission by issuing limited-term grants--about 10,000 new awards per year--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. NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible.

Now Publishers, Inc.
#315

PO Box 179
Delft, 2600 AD
The Netherlands
www.nowpublishers.com
Now Publishers introduces Foundations and Trends®, publishing high quality survey and tutorial articles using modern techniques to enable instant linking to the primary research and real-time updating by authors. Each Foundations and Trends® covers a major branch of a scientific discipline and offers current, state-of-the-art review articles by research leaders in their field.

Oracle-Crystal Ball Global Business Unit  
#317

1515 Arapahoe Street, Suite 1300
Denver, CO 80202 USA
303-626-0130
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

Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6XS
United Kingdom
+ 44-1256-302959
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 & Practice and Journal of Simulation. We also publish International Abstracts in Operations Research, in connection with IFORS.

Palisade Corp.                                   
#100

798 Cascadilla St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-277-8000
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

10181 Parlett Place
Cupertino, CA 95014
650-948-6496
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

4740 Murphy Canyon Rd., Ste. 200
San Diego, CA 92108
619-543-8880
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 Institute Inc.                 
#300

SAS Campus Dr.
Cary, NC 27513
919-531-0493
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

SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513 
919-531-7187
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.

SIAM                                       
#104

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
3600 Market St. – 6th Fl.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-382-9800
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

1313 Dolley Madison Blvd., Suite 402
McLean, VA  22101
703-790-1745
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

5191 Natorp Blvd.
Mason, OH 45040
800-543-0487
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

101 Philip Dr.
Norwell, MA 02061
781-871-6600
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

1450 Page Mill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1124
650-725-0820
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

612 N. Jackson St.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-2713
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

2325 Dulles Corner Blvd., Ste. 500
Herndon, VA 20171
540-364-0420
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

1623 Main St.
Concord, MA 01742
866-796-2375
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 LLC           
#304/306

CRC Press
6000 Broken Sound Pkwy. NW Ste. 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487
561-994-0555
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 website: www.crcpress.com.

University of Missouri-Rolla            
#112

Dept. of Engineering Mgt. & Systems Engineering
1870 Miner Circle, 223 Engineering Mgt.
Rolla, MO 65409
573-341-7211
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

2891 20th St. Iepenstraat 98
Boulder, CO 80304 Gent 9000
USA Belgium
303-440-8524 +32-932-406-23
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 soon to be 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

350 Main St.
Malden, MA 02148
781-388-8465
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

Office 410
49 Nepokorennykh pr.
St. Petersburg 195220
Russian Federation
+7 (812) 441-3105
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

1801 Maple Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60201
847-491-2504
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.


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