{"id":815,"date":"2022-01-18T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/?page_id=815"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:13:16","slug":"technology-workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/technology-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-815\" data-postid=\"815\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-815 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_4m87943 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_530z946 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6t5u502   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Take advantage of these pre-conference workshops for a hands on demonstration of the latest in Analytics software. All attendees are welcome to join onsite or pre-register by editing your registration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Descriptions and times below:<\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_lt8k43 last\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"aimms\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-aimms tb_dq48989 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_q2xu991 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_yea9991\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_tkj2992 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_flz4992 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimms.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/01\/AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small.gif\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-676\" title=\"AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small\" alt=\"AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_8cqq993 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5w94993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>AIMMS<\/h2>\n<h3>From Supply Chain Design to Production Planning<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Linlin Ma &amp; N.S. Krishnan<b><br><\/b><br>In this workshop, you will learn to tackle different supply chain problems using mathematical optimization and scenario modeling. We will cover 3 use cases: Supply Chain Design, Integrated Business Planning and Production Scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>1. Supply Chain Network Design<br>Discover a systematic approach to determine the optimal size, location and flows between the nodes of your supply chain, using advanced mathematical modelling.<\/p>\n<p>2. Supply Chain Planning using IBP<br>Work out the optimal solution to meet projected demand in a cost-effective way. Gauge the potential implications of decisions by running scenarios to test assumptions, understand risks and create more business transparency.<\/p>\n<p>3. Bespoke Production Scheduling<br>Translate your plans into a daily production schedule. Find out how you can achieve this with a bespoke application that is designed based on your specific business variables, such as change-over time.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_ae9k994 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"ampl\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-ampl tb_huer982 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_22nw982 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_7mdz983\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_f29k983 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_p4xl983 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/ampl.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/AMPL-300.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1688\" title=\"AMPL-300\" alt=\"AMPL-300\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_7kbt983 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_v40j984   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>AMPL<\/h2>\n<h3>Adding Optimization to Your Applications, Quickly and Reliably: From Prototyping to Integration with AMPL<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Fourer<\/p>\n<p>Optimization is the most widely adopted technology of Prescriptive Analytics, but also the most challenging to implement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can you <em>prototype<\/em> an optimization application fast enough to get results before the problem owner loses interest?<\/li>\n<li>How can you <em>develop<\/em> optimization-based procedures to get results you can use, within your time and resource requirements?<\/li>\n<li>How can you <em>integrate<\/em> optimization into your enterprise\u2019s decision-making systems?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this presentation, we show how AMPL gets you going without elaborate training, extra programmers, or premature commitments. We start by introducing <em>model-based optimization,<\/em> the key approach to streamlining the optimization modeling cycle and building successful applications today. Then we demonstrate how AMPL\u2019s design of a language and system for model-based optimization is able to offer exceptional power of expression and speed of execution while maintaining ease of use.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation continues by taking a single example through successive stages of the optimization modeling lifecycle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prototyping in an interactive command environment.<\/li>\n<li>Development of optimization procedures via AMPL\u2019s built-in scripting language.<\/li>\n<li>Integration through APIs to widely used programming languages, including Python, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, and R.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our example is simple enough for participants to follow its development through the course of this short workshop, yet rich enough to serve as a foundation for appreciating model-based optimization in practice. Several case studies of AMPL applications round out the presentation by showing how model-based optimization has been successful in varied areas of analytics practice.<\/p>\n<p><br><br><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_rldq984 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"fico\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-fico tb_b6p1682 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_d7j5682 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_w01t682\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_3bt7683 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_k3t2683 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fico.com\/en\/products\/fico-xpress-optimization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/FICO-Xpress-Optimization-Color.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1123\" title=\"FICO-Xpress-Optimization Color\" alt=\"FICO-Xpress-Optimization Color\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_keev684 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_70ki684   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>FICO<\/h2>\n<h3>Calling all OR Heroes: Learn\u00a0How to\u00a0Model and\u00a0Deploy\u00a0Solutions in 75%\u00a0Less\u00a0Time with FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Insight<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Meyerland B<br><\/b>Presented by: Baykal Hafizoglu<\/p>\n<p>Join our hands-on workshop to experience how FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Insight helps<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>you read data in any format from any source, integrates with your own machine learning and solvers (or Xpress Solver), enables collaboration with business users, deploys decision support or automated solutions<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in the cloud or on premises \u2014<em>and does it all in 75% less time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the overview of the great new features of FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Solver, Mosel, Workbench, and Insight<\/li>\n<li>Learn how you can rapidly deploy Python models with FICO Xpress Insight<\/li>\n<li>Discover the new View Designer, which reduces GUI development times from minutes to seconds<\/li>\n<li>Experience\u00a0real-world business examples in which developers integrate their own solver(s) with the powerful Xpress Insight platform<\/li>\n<li>See how the flexible, free-to-use Xpress Mosel modeling and programming language allows you to\u00a0make your solver available to thousands of other Mosel users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All attendees will receive\u00a0a link to the\u00a0complimentary FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Xpress Optimization Community License.<b><\/b><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_210k684 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"gams\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-gams tb_0jla644 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_fbfv645 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_0tu1645\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_fvev646 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_nyod646 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gams.com\/\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/GAMS_Logo_INFORMS.png\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1448\" title=\"GAMS_Logo_INFORMS\" alt=\"GAMS_Logo_INFORMS\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_5wr9646 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_c63j647   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>GAMS<\/h2>\n<h3>Model Deployment and Data Wrangling with GAMS Engine and GAMS Transfer<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm, Room Meyerland A<br><\/b>Presented by: Adam Christensen &amp; Stefan Mann<\/p>\n<p>The right tools help you deploy your GAMS model and maximize the impact of your decision support application.<br>GAMS Engine is a powerful tool for solving GAMS models, either on-prem or in the cloud. Engine acts as a broker between applications or users with GAMS models to solve and the computational resources used for this task. Central to Engine is a modern REST API that provides an interface to a scalable, containerized system of services, providing API, database, queue, and a configurable number of GAMS workers. GAMS Engine is available as a standalone application, or as a Software-As-A-Service solution running on AWS.<\/p>\n<p>GAMS Transfer is an API (available in Python, Matlab, and soon R) that makes moving data between GAMS and your computational environment fast and easy. By leveraging open source data science tools such as Pandas\/Numpy, GAMS Transfer is able to take advantage of a suite of useful (and platform independent) I\/O tools to deposit data into GDX or withdraw GDX results to a number of data endpoints (i.e., visualizations,<br>databases, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>In this session we will go through the necessary steps to get started with GAMS Engine<br>and GAMS Transfer.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_y2h9647 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"gurobi-optimization\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-gurobi-optimization tb_tsfe220 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_k1e2221 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_bzf3222\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_3wpu222 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_u2us223 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gurobi.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/gurobi_logo.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1065\" title=\"gurobi_logo\" alt=\"gurobi_logo\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- 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state and solve your optimization problems. \u00a0We&#8217;ll also talk about our new Compute Server features, which greatly simplify deployment in an enterprise environment. \u00a0Finally, we&#8217;ll talk about a number of other important ingredients in a successful optimization application, including support, licensing, education, consulting, etc.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_l8mf223 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"jmp\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-jmp tb_pl2a646 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  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https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/JMP-logo-color-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_9qh0647 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_e8fo647   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>JMP Statistical Discovery<\/h2>\n<h3>Predictive Modeling Workflow using JMP Pro Software<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Kevin Potcner<\/p>\n<p>Teaching the process of building, evaluating, and choosing statistical models has become an essential part of the curriculum for Analytics Programs. What was once limited to teaching only linear and logistic regression, instructors are now exposing their students to many other modeling techniques \u2013 partition\/trees, neural network, K-nearest neighbors, Text Mining among many others. Curriculums are also evolving so that students are being exposed to what working on real datasets are like. This includes such steps as cleaning and formatting data, deciding how to deal with missing values and outliers, building and comparing a variety of models, and presenting results in an accessible manner to a non-technical audience.<\/p>\n<p>In this workshop, a statistical scientist from JMP will illustrate how JMP Pro\u2019s interactive visualization-driven approach to this process can greatly enhance student\u2019s understanding, and enjoyment of the predictive modeling workflow.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_k4np647 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"kpmg\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-kpmg tb_hg19458 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_s1pb459 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_vgx0459\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_76zh459 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_ptrj460 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/home.kpmg\/xx\/en\/home.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small.png\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-2107\" title=\"KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small\" alt=\"KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_2t1r460 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_cgo4460   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>KPMG<\/h2>\n<h3>Teaching Computers to Read: How to Leverage AI to Solve Real-world Problems with Unstructured Data<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45pm, Room Memorial<br><\/b>Presented by: Rachel Wagner-Kaiser<\/p>\n<p>The unstructured data toolkit has been constantly evolving, as it requires a unique set of strategies and technologies to address companies&#8217; business challenges. Deep learning and natural language processing tools can be used to carry on dynamic conversations with customers or to teach computers to automatically read documents. We will deep dive into these tools to discuss how they work, how they are applied, and how they deliver value at scale to solve companies&#8217; pain points.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_sdn6460 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"openblender\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-openblender tb_kcgr485 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_9jnc486 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_vz8g486\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_m4wn486 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_pnzd488 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/openblender.io\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/OpenBlender_screen.png\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-2530\" title=\"OpenBlender_screen\" alt=\"OpenBlender_screen\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_q4rw487 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_tsv1489   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>OpenBlender<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Improve your Forecasts with Free, Open External Data in Seconds<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm pm, Room Meyerland B<br><\/b>Presented by: Kenneth Sanford, P.h.D.<\/p>\n<p>Predictive models are underperforming in a wide variety of use cases where contextual data would greatly improve situational awareness.\u00a0 However, incorporating external variables is a time-consuming and labor intensive process, making it very hard to find the right signals that actually have an impact on the model. This hands-on workshop will take you step by step through the process of transparently generating and blending relevant exogenous variables from publicly-available data to immensely improve predictive performance.\u00a0 This includes exploiting news reports, social media interactions, web search trends, reviews, economic and financial figures, geolocations, mobility, weather, etc. Enriching your models with ML-ready features from any source no longer takes days or weeks, but just a few lines of code.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_g4r9487 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"optimization-direct\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-optimization-direct tb_r3h5973 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_sxjd974 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_a7fv974\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_f1fz975 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_e923975 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optimizationdirect.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1994\" title=\"OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small\" alt=\"OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_7czg975 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_x85t975   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Optimization Direct<\/h2>\n<h3>Solving the Most Difficult Mixed Integer Programming Models with ODH<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Memorial<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Ashford<\/p>\n<p>ODH is a package for accelerating MIP optimization and extending its range. It runs concurrently and synchronously with a MIP optimizer exchanging information with it.<\/p>\n<p>Although ODH was primarily designed to enable MIP optimization to be applied to models too large or difficult to be amenable to the standard commercial MIP optimizers such as CPLEX, \u00a0or other commercial parckages, it also accelerates the optimization of most models that are regularly solved with standard MIP.<\/p>\n<p>ODH has been developed by Optimization Direct Inc. over the past 8 years to handle real world customer models for which standard MIP was not effective. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Optimization Direct\u2019s standard hundred model sub-set of mid-sized models taken from its library of nearly 1000 real customer models, ODH|CPLEX reduces the average optimality gap after two hours to nearly half that found by using CPLEX alone.<\/p>\n<p>On the MIPLIB version 7 open set of 29 models to which no integer feasible solution had been found, ODH|CPLEX found solutions to 5 of them in 2 hours. Of the remaining 257 models to which no optimal solution had been proven, ODH|CPLEX found and proved optimal solutions to 13 of them and found better solutions to any that had been previously found to 45% of them. Again, with runs of just 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Optimization Direct has customers in the scheduling, telecoms, retail, logistics and supply chain areas who use OD|CPEX. At least three of these have applications that would fail without ODH|CPLEX technology. In January 2022, one said \u2018ODH|CPLEX is comparable to the best optimization technology available from anyone on my small models and much superior to any other optimizer on the large ones\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>ODH uses a number of heuristics, especially a novel decomposition based method, and information from a MIP optimizer to feed that MIP optimizer with good solutions. This is made possible by its new thread synchronization technology within which the ODH and MIP threads can work efficiently.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_e810975 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"princeton-consulting\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-princeton-consulting tb_uo62561 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_i11g561 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_9atu561\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_ts69562 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_sow2562 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/01\/PCI.gif\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-821\" title=\"PCI\" alt=\"PCI\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_a8ie562 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_3y02562   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Princeton Consultants, Inc.<\/h2>\n<h3>Rapid Optimization Model Development With Python And Pandas<\/h3>\n<p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Meyerland A<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Randall, PhD, Senior Optimization Specialist at Princeton Consultants &amp; Edward Rothberg, CEO and Co-founder, Gurobi Optimization<\/p>\n<p>At Princeton Consultants, we have started to do the majority of our optimization model development using Python with the pandas library (https:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/). We have successfully developed models using the Gurobi (https:\/\/www.gurobi.com\/) python interface, and the docplex (http:\/\/ibmdecisionoptimization.github.io\/docplex-doc\/) python interface for IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/products\/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio). Based on these successes, we have codified our approach for rapid optimization model development.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the workshop, Ed Rothberg of Gurobi will discuss\u00a0the continuum of optimization model review and refinement assistance offered by Princeton Consultants and Gurobi, including specific examples of how these services led to significantly better outcomes.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <!-- module divider -->\n<div  class=\"module tf_mw module-divider tb_c4vl562 solid   \" style=\"border-width: 1px;border-color: #202225;\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/module divider -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-anchor=\"rockwell-automation\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_has_section tb_section-rockwell-automation tb_nw3u560 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_an5e560 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_mtid561\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-1 tb_yjuo561 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_no9l561 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n                   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color.png\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1364\" title=\"2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color\" alt=\"2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color\">        <\/a>\n    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-3 tb_al16562 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_pfsd562   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Rockwell Automation<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Starting Out With Arena<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45, Room Meyerland B<\/strong><br>Presented by: Melanie Barker<\/p>\n<p>Rockwell Automation\u2019s Arena Simulation Suite has maintained its position as the leading simulation package for nearly 40 years. 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All attendees are welcome to join onsite or pre-register by editing your registration.\u00a0<\/p> <p><b>Descriptions and times below:<\/b><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimms.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/01\/AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small.gif\" title=\"AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small\" alt=\"AIMMS_logo_S_RGB.gif_Small\"> <\/a>\n<h2>AIMMS<\/h2> <h3>From Supply Chain Design to Production Planning<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Linlin Ma &amp; N.S. Krishnan<b><br><\/b><br>In this workshop, you will learn to tackle different supply chain problems using mathematical optimization and scenario modeling. We will cover 3 use cases: Supply Chain Design, Integrated Business Planning and Production Scheduling.<\/p> <p>1. Supply Chain Network Design<br>Discover a systematic approach to determine the optimal size, location and flows between the nodes of your supply chain, using advanced mathematical modelling.<\/p> <p>2. Supply Chain Planning using IBP<br>Work out the optimal solution to meet projected demand in a cost-effective way. Gauge the potential implications of decisions by running scenarios to test assumptions, understand risks and create more business transparency.<\/p> <p>3. Bespoke Production Scheduling<br>Translate your plans into a daily production schedule. Find out how you can achieve this with a bespoke application that is designed based on your specific business variables, such as change-over time.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ampl.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/AMPL-300.jpg\" title=\"AMPL-300\" alt=\"AMPL-300\"> <\/a>\n<h2>AMPL<\/h2> <h3>Adding Optimization to Your Applications, Quickly and Reliably: From Prototyping to Integration with AMPL<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Fourer<\/p> <p>Optimization is the most widely adopted technology of Prescriptive Analytics, but also the most challenging to implement:<\/p> <ul> <li>How can you <em>prototype<\/em> an optimization application fast enough to get results before the problem owner loses interest?<\/li> <li>How can you <em>develop<\/em> optimization-based procedures to get results you can use, within your time and resource requirements?<\/li> <li>How can you <em>integrate<\/em> optimization into your enterprise\u2019s decision-making systems?<\/li> <\/ul> <p>In this presentation, we show how AMPL gets you going without elaborate training, extra programmers, or premature commitments. We start by introducing <em>model-based optimization,<\/em> the key approach to streamlining the optimization modeling cycle and building successful applications today. Then we demonstrate how AMPL\u2019s design of a language and system for model-based optimization is able to offer exceptional power of expression and speed of execution while maintaining ease of use.<\/p> <p>The presentation continues by taking a single example through successive stages of the optimization modeling lifecycle:<\/p> <ul> <li>Prototyping in an interactive command environment.<\/li> <li>Development of optimization procedures via AMPL\u2019s built-in scripting language.<\/li> <li>Integration through APIs to widely used programming languages, including Python, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, and R.<\/li> <\/ul> <p>Our example is simple enough for participants to follow its development through the course of this short workshop, yet rich enough to serve as a foundation for appreciating model-based optimization in practice. Several case studies of AMPL applications round out the presentation by showing how model-based optimization has been successful in varied areas of analytics practice.<\/p> <p><br><br><\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fico.com\/en\/products\/fico-xpress-optimization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/FICO-Xpress-Optimization-Color.jpg\" title=\"FICO-Xpress-Optimization Color\" alt=\"FICO-Xpress-Optimization Color\"> <\/a>\n<h2>FICO<\/h2> <h3>Calling all OR Heroes: Learn\u00a0How to\u00a0Model and\u00a0Deploy\u00a0Solutions in 75%\u00a0Less\u00a0Time with FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Insight<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Meyerland B<br><\/b>Presented by: Baykal Hafizoglu<\/p> <p>Join our hands-on workshop to experience how FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Insight helps<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>you read data in any format from any source, integrates with your own machine learning and solvers (or Xpress Solver), enables collaboration with business users, deploys decision support or automated solutions<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in the cloud or on premises \u2014<em>and does it all in 75% less time<\/em>.<\/p> <ul> <li>Get the overview of the great new features of FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Xpress Solver, Mosel, Workbench, and Insight<\/li> <li>Learn how you can rapidly deploy Python models with FICO Xpress Insight<\/li> <li>Discover the new View Designer, which reduces GUI development times from minutes to seconds<\/li> <li>Experience\u00a0real-world business examples in which developers integrate their own solver(s) with the powerful Xpress Insight platform<\/li> <li>See how the flexible, free-to-use Xpress Mosel modeling and programming language allows you to\u00a0make your solver available to thousands of other Mosel users<\/li> <\/ul> <p>All attendees will receive\u00a0a link to the\u00a0complimentary FICO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Xpress Optimization Community License.<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gams.com\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/GAMS_Logo_INFORMS.png\" title=\"GAMS_Logo_INFORMS\" alt=\"GAMS_Logo_INFORMS\"> <\/a>\n<h2>GAMS<\/h2> <h3>Model Deployment and Data Wrangling with GAMS Engine and GAMS Transfer<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm, Room Meyerland A<br><\/b>Presented by: Adam Christensen &amp; Stefan Mann<\/p> <p>The right tools help you deploy your GAMS model and maximize the impact of your decision support application.<br>GAMS Engine is a powerful tool for solving GAMS models, either on-prem or in the cloud. Engine acts as a broker between applications or users with GAMS models to solve and the computational resources used for this task. Central to Engine is a modern REST API that provides an interface to a scalable, containerized system of services, providing API, database, queue, and a configurable number of GAMS workers. GAMS Engine is available as a standalone application, or as a Software-As-A-Service solution running on AWS.<\/p> <p>GAMS Transfer is an API (available in Python, Matlab, and soon R) that makes moving data between GAMS and your computational environment fast and easy. By leveraging open source data science tools such as Pandas\/Numpy, GAMS Transfer is able to take advantage of a suite of useful (and platform independent) I\/O tools to deposit data into GDX or withdraw GDX results to a number of data endpoints (i.e., visualizations,<br>databases, etc.).<\/p> <p>In this session we will go through the necessary steps to get started with GAMS Engine<br>and GAMS Transfer.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gurobi.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/gurobi_logo.jpg\" title=\"gurobi_logo\" alt=\"gurobi_logo\"> <\/a>\n<h2>Gurobi Optimization<\/h2> <h3>Gurobi 9.5: Helping You to Build, Solve, and Deploy Optimization Models<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45pm, Room Meyerland A<br><\/b>Presented by: Edward Rothberg, CEO and Co-founder, Gurobi Optimization,\u00a0 Alison Cozad, Optimization Engineer, Gurobi Optimization, Cara Touretzky, Technical Account Manager, Gurobi Optimization<\/p> <p>This workshop will discuss our latest release, Gurobi 9.5, as well as some of our recent efforts to help make you successful with optimization. \u00a0We'll touch on the performance improvements in version 9.5 and the new and enhanced features, which make it easier for you to state and solve your optimization problems. \u00a0We'll also talk about our new Compute Server features, which greatly simplify deployment in an enterprise environment. \u00a0Finally, we'll talk about a number of other important ingredients in a successful optimization application, including support, licensing, education, consulting, etc.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmp.com\/en_us\/home.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/JMP-logo-color.jpg\" width=\"200\" title=\"JMP-logo-color\" alt=\"JMP-logo-color\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/JMP-logo-color.jpg 678w, https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/JMP-logo-color-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/> <\/a>\n<h2>JMP Statistical Discovery<\/h2> <h3>Predictive Modeling Workflow using JMP Pro Software<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm, Room Kingwood B<br><\/b>Presented by: Kevin Potcner<\/p> <p>Teaching the process of building, evaluating, and choosing statistical models has become an essential part of the curriculum for Analytics Programs. What was once limited to teaching only linear and logistic regression, instructors are now exposing their students to many other modeling techniques \u2013 partition\/trees, neural network, K-nearest neighbors, Text Mining among many others. Curriculums are also evolving so that students are being exposed to what working on real datasets are like. This includes such steps as cleaning and formatting data, deciding how to deal with missing values and outliers, building and comparing a variety of models, and presenting results in an accessible manner to a non-technical audience.<\/p> <p>In this workshop, a statistical scientist from JMP will illustrate how JMP Pro\u2019s interactive visualization-driven approach to this process can greatly enhance student\u2019s understanding, and enjoyment of the predictive modeling workflow.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/home.kpmg\/xx\/en\/home.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small.png\" title=\"KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small\" alt=\"KPMG_NoCP_RGB_small\"> <\/a>\n<h2>KPMG<\/h2> <h3>Teaching Computers to Read: How to Leverage AI to Solve Real-world Problems with Unstructured Data<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45pm, Room Memorial<br><\/b>Presented by: Rachel Wagner-Kaiser<\/p> <p>The unstructured data toolkit has been constantly evolving, as it requires a unique set of strategies and technologies to address companies' business challenges. Deep learning and natural language processing tools can be used to carry on dynamic conversations with customers or to teach computers to automatically read documents. We will deep dive into these tools to discuss how they work, how they are applied, and how they deliver value at scale to solve companies' pain points.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/openblender.io\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/03\/OpenBlender_screen.png\" title=\"OpenBlender_screen\" alt=\"OpenBlender_screen\"> <\/a>\n<h2>OpenBlender<\/h2> <h3><strong>Improve your Forecasts with Free, Open External Data in Seconds<\/strong><\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 11am-12:45pm pm, Room Meyerland B<br><\/b>Presented by: Kenneth Sanford, P.h.D.<\/p> <p>Predictive models are underperforming in a wide variety of use cases where contextual data would greatly improve situational awareness.\u00a0 However, incorporating external variables is a time-consuming and labor intensive process, making it very hard to find the right signals that actually have an impact on the model. This hands-on workshop will take you step by step through the process of transparently generating and blending relevant exogenous variables from publicly-available data to immensely improve predictive performance.\u00a0 This includes exploiting news reports, social media interactions, web search trends, reviews, economic and financial figures, geolocations, mobility, weather, etc. Enriching your models with ML-ready features from any source no longer takes days or weeks, but just a few lines of code.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.optimizationdirect.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small.jpg\" title=\"OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small\" alt=\"OptimizationDirectOd_cmyk_Small\"> <\/a>\n<h2>Optimization Direct<\/h2> <h3>Solving the Most Difficult Mixed Integer Programming Models with ODH<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Memorial<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Ashford<\/p> <p>ODH is a package for accelerating MIP optimization and extending its range. It runs concurrently and synchronously with a MIP optimizer exchanging information with it.<\/p> <p>Although ODH was primarily designed to enable MIP optimization to be applied to models too large or difficult to be amenable to the standard commercial MIP optimizers such as CPLEX, \u00a0or other commercial parckages, it also accelerates the optimization of most models that are regularly solved with standard MIP.<\/p> <p>ODH has been developed by Optimization Direct Inc. over the past 8 years to handle real world customer models for which standard MIP was not effective. \u00a0<\/p> <p>On Optimization Direct\u2019s standard hundred model sub-set of mid-sized models taken from its library of nearly 1000 real customer models, ODH|CPLEX reduces the average optimality gap after two hours to nearly half that found by using CPLEX alone.<\/p> <p>On the MIPLIB version 7 open set of 29 models to which no integer feasible solution had been found, ODH|CPLEX found solutions to 5 of them in 2 hours. Of the remaining 257 models to which no optimal solution had been proven, ODH|CPLEX found and proved optimal solutions to 13 of them and found better solutions to any that had been previously found to 45% of them. Again, with runs of just 2 hours.<\/p> <p>Optimization Direct has customers in the scheduling, telecoms, retail, logistics and supply chain areas who use OD|CPEX. At least three of these have applications that would fail without ODH|CPLEX technology. In January 2022, one said \u2018ODH|CPLEX is comparable to the best optimization technology available from anyone on my small models and much superior to any other optimizer on the large ones\u2019.<\/p> <p>ODH uses a number of heuristics, especially a novel decomposition based method, and information from a MIP optimizer to feed that MIP optimizer with good solutions. This is made possible by its new thread synchronization technology within which the ODH and MIP threads can work efficiently.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/01\/PCI.gif\" title=\"PCI\" alt=\"PCI\"> <\/a>\n<h2>Princeton Consultants, Inc.<\/h2> <h3>Rapid Optimization Model Development With Python And Pandas<\/h3> <p><b>Sunday, April 3, 1-2:45pm, Room Meyerland A<br><\/b>Presented by: Robert Randall, PhD, Senior Optimization Specialist at Princeton Consultants &amp; Edward Rothberg, CEO and Co-founder, Gurobi Optimization<\/p> <p>At Princeton Consultants, we have started to do the majority of our optimization model development using Python with the pandas library (https:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/). We have successfully developed models using the Gurobi (https:\/\/www.gurobi.com\/) python interface, and the docplex (http:\/\/ibmdecisionoptimization.github.io\/docplex-doc\/) python interface for IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/products\/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio). Based on these successes, we have codified our approach for rapid optimization model development.<\/p> <p>In the second half of the workshop, Ed Rothberg of Gurobi will discuss\u00a0the continuum of optimization model review and refinement assistance offered by Princeton Consultants and Gurobi, including specific examples of how these services led to significantly better outcomes.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color.png\" title=\"2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color\" alt=\"2019_RA_Logo_cmyk_RA-Bug-LeftText-Color\"> <\/a>\n<h2>Rockwell Automation<\/h2> <h3>Starting Out With Arena<\/h3> <p><strong>Sunday, April 3, 3-4:45, Room Meyerland B<\/strong><br>Presented by: Melanie Barker<\/p> <p>Rockwell Automation\u2019s Arena Simulation Suite has maintained its position as the leading simulation package for nearly 40 years. It continues to provide end users with an easy-to-use interface that combines power with simplicity. In this seminar, the Arena modeling environment and basics of Arena model building will be shown.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}