The INFORMS Annual Meeting 2003 will be held at Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 19-22. Following is a list of companies and organizations that will be exhibiting at the meeting. All attendees are encouraged to visit the exhibit area. For more information about the meeting, go to www.informs.org/Conf/Atlanta2003.

Aptech Systems, Inc.

23804 SE Kent-Kangley Rd.

Maple Valley, WA 98038

425-432-7855

www.aptech.com

Booth # 6

The GAUSS Engine, based on the fast and powerful GAUSS Matrix Programming Language, can be used to add the numerical computing power of GAUSS to multi-threaded, multi-user applications written in C, C++ or Java. GAUSS is used in all fields for solving large-scale optimization and data analysis problems.

 

Blackwell Publishing

350 Main St.

Malden, MA 02148

781-388-8353

www.blackwellpub.com

Booth # 27

Blackwell Publishing is a proud exhibitor at INFORMS and a leading publisher of books and journals in the fields of operations research and technology management. Receive a 20% discount on our books on display and take advantage of journal sample issues and subscription discounts.

 

Combined Book Display

Review titles and special offers from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor and Francis, and the University of Chicago Press.

 

Catalyze Ltd.

Yew Tree Cottage, Main Rd.

Colden Common

Winchester, Hampshire

United Kingdom SO21 1RR

+44 1962-715286

www.catalyze.co.uk

Booth # 23

Catalyze Ltd. provides decision support software and services, based on applied research and software development originated from the London School of Economics. Widely used by decision conferencing and OR professionals around the globe, both Hiview and Equity software packages are designed to support both individual users and the decision conferencing process.

 

Darden Business Publishing

P.O. Box 6550

Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550

800-246-3367

www.dardenpublishing.com

Booth # 38

Darden Business Publishing will be exhibiting their top selling cases, as well as their multi-media products and simulations. Darden cases provide a real life look at issues and scenarios that will be encountered in the world of business. Selected cases are brought to life visually and interactively with the multi-media cases and simulations.

 

Decisioneering, Inc.

1515 Arapahoe St., Ste. 1311

Denver, CO 80202

303-534-1515

www.decisioneering.com

Booth # 29

Decisioneering, Inc. provides software and services that simplify spreadsheet risk analysis and improve decision-making. The company offers the Crystal Ball line of desktop tools for Monte Carlo simulation, optimization and forecasting. Customers include over 90% of Fortune 500 companies and over 400 educational institutions worldwide.

 

Duxbury/Thomson Learning

10 Davis Dr.

Belmont, CA 94002

650-595-2350

www.duxbury.com

Booths # 4 & 5

See our latest offerings in quantitative methods. From our exciting list of best selling introductory texts to our provocative list of upper level titles, we pride ourselves on over 30 years of quality and innovation to quantitative methods.

 

Elsevier Science

P.O. Box 1991

1000 BZ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

31-20-485-2467

www.sciencedirect.com

Booth # 16

Elsevier is the publisher of the Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science (www.elsevier.com/locate/horms) and many OR/MS related journals, such as Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Omega and Operations Research Letters. All Elsevier journals, in total about 1800, are available on ScienceDirect.

 

Expert Choice, Inc.

1501 Lee Highway, Ste. 302

Arlington, VA 22209

703-243-5595

www.expertchoice.com

Booth # 19

Expert Choice helps business and government organizations around the world with their strategic planning, project portfolio management, resource allocation, vendor selection, risk assessment and human resources management challenges. Today, more than 15,000 individuals in 60 countries, including 25% of the Fortune 500 and half of U.S. Federal Agencies rely on Expert Choice's decision support software and services to help them make better, faster, more justifiable decisions and improve their bottom lines.

 

Frontline Systems, Inc.

P.O. Box 4288

Incline Village, NV 89450

775-831-0300

www.solver.com

Booth # 17

Frontline Systems, developers of the Microsoft Excel Solver, will demonstrate the Premium Solver Platform, our compatible Excel upgrade offering greater capacity, speed and ease-of-use; our Solver DLL Platform for custom applications; and new versions of our Large-Scale SQP Solver, XPRESS Solver and the all-new KNITRO Solver. Free demo CDs available.

 

GAMS Development Corp.

1217 Potomac St. NW

Washington, DC 20007

202-342-0180

www.gams.com

Booth # 30

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 you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

 

GoldSim Technology Group

18300 NE Union Hill Rd., Ste. 200

Redmond, WA 98052

425-883-0777

www.goldsim.com

Booth # 18

GoldSim provides general-purpose simulation software designed to help you understand complex systems and make better decisions. Key features that make this feasible include the ability to: quantitatively address the inherent variability and uncertainty present in real-world systems; superimpose the occurrence and consequences of discrete events onto continuously varying systems; build top-down models using hierarchical containers that facilitate the simulation of large, complex systems while keeping them easy to understand and navigate; dynamically link external programs or spreadsheets directly into your GoldSim model; and create custom designed graphical interfaces to explain and demonstrate your models.

 

ILOG, Inc.

1080 Linda Vista Ave.

Mountain View, CA 94043

1-800-FOR-ILOG

www.ilog.com

Booth # 12

Stop by the ILOG booth to pick up a free ILOG Optimization Technologies CD. Learn more about our newest products, academic programs and the ILOG software tutorial. Get help with your questions or just say hi. See the special Pre-Conference Programs list for information about our ILOG Optimization Technologies Workshop.

 

Imagine That, Inc.

6830 Via Del Oro, Ste. 230

San Jose, CA 95119

408-365-0305

www.imaginethatinc.com

Booth # 26

Use the simulation tool professionals use most, Extend. The rich modeling environment allows you to introduce simulation concepts to novices and scholarly solution techniques to more advanced students. After all, developing an understanding of process dynamics is as important to students as it is to seasoned modelers. Extend... the software of choice for academia.

 

INFORMS

901 Elkridge Landing Rd., Ste. 400

Linthicum, MD 21090

800-446-3676/410-850-0300

www.informs.org

Booths # 6A-6B

Have a membership question? Want to know what's going on at INFORMS? Need to know the most current benefits and services or the hottest industry trends? Stop by the INFORMS booth to talk to the staff. We have the latest information on networking, meetings, publications, industry happenings and benefits and services. We look forward to seeing you!

 

INFORMS Future Meetings

12 Breakneck Hill Rd., Ste. 102

Lincoln, RI 02865

800-343-0062/401-722-2595

www.informs.org/Conf/

Booth # 40

Come to the booth for a preview of our 2004 and 2005 meetings!

 

Ketron Management Science

2001 Jefferson Davis Hwy., #1211

Arlington, VA 22202-3619

www.ketronms.com

Booth # 31

Ketron Management Science specializes in design, development and application of mathematical programming optimizers and model management software. The software is used as optimization toolkits by analysts in every sector of the economy. KMS provides support for users of the software from hotline assistance through complete application system development.

 

Kluwer Academic Publishers

101 Philip Dr.

Norwell, MA 02061

781-871-6600

www.wkap.nl

Booths # 24 & 25

Kluwer Academic Publishers, a leading publisher of scientific books and journals, invites attendees to visit our display and browse through our latest publications. Receive a 25% discount on all titles on display and pick up free sample copies of our journals.

 

LINDO Systems, Inc.

1415 North Dayton St.

Chicago, IL 60622

312-988-7422

www.lindo.com

Booth # 1

LINDO Systems will be highlighting recent enhancements to our popular optimization modeling software including the new global solver. 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.

26010 Highland Way

Los Gatos, CA 95033-9758

650-212-1212

www.lumina.com

Booth # 37

Lumina is pleased to present the premiere of Analytica 3.0. Analytica offers intuitive user-interface metaphors better suited to effective business modeling than the standard spreadsheet grid. It provides hierarchical influence diagrams for creating and communicating model structure, intelligent arrays for multidimensional data, and Monte Carlo for efficient uncertainty and risk analysis. The Analytica Decision Engine allows you to publish your models onto the Web. According to PC Week: "Everything that is wrong with the common PC spreadsheet is fixed in Analytica."

 

Maximal Software, Inc.

2111 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 700

Arlington, VA 22201

703-522-7900

www.maximalsoftware.com

Booth # 8

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

Two Penn Plaza, 20th Floor

New York, NY 10121

212-904-2892

www.mhhe.com

Booths # 10 & 11

McGraw-Hill/Irwin is the premier provider of textbooks and technology resources across the business and economics disciplines, with specialization in business statistics, business math and operations management. McGraw-Hill/Irwin publishes instructional materials targeted at the higher education and professional markets, delivering a wide variety of student and instructor resources.

 

MINITAB, Inc.

1829 Pine Hall Rd.

State College, PA 16801

814-238-3280

www.minitab.com

Booth # 35

MINITAB� Release 13 is a comprehensive and easy-to-use statistical software package for data analysis and presentation. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, quality professionals worldwide trust MINITAB to provide the methods they need: basic and advanced statistics, regression and ANOVA, SPC, DOE, reliability, Gage R&R and more. For a free demo, go to www.minitab.com/demo.htm.

 

National Science Foundation

Directorate for Engineering

4201 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, VA 22230

703-292-5111

www.nsf.gov

Booth # 36

The Engineering Activity supports fundamental research on engineering systems, devices and materials, and the processes and methodologies that underpin them. Engineering investments contribute to technological innovation that is vital to the nation's future economic strength, security and the quality of life of its citizens.

 

Palgrave Macmillan

Houndmills, Basingstoke

Hampshire RG21 6XS

United Kingdom

+ 44-1256-329242

www.palgrave-journals.com

Booth # 9

Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher with a fast-growing journals portfolio in a wide range of topics, including professional business, management and OR. Browse our publications - books, journals, reference and electronic works. Sample our NEW journal Knowledge Management Research & Practice and pick up information on a forthcoming title for 2004- European Management Review.

 

Palisade Corp.

31 Decker Rd.

Newfield, NY 14867

607-277-8000

www.palisade.com

Booth # 14

Palisade Corporation is the leading developer of software for risk, decision and statistical analysis as well as optimization. Flagship products include @RISK, the DecisionTools Suite and StatTools, which are used by tens of thousands in hundreds of industries worldwide.

 

Paragon Decision Technology B.V.

Julianastraat 30

Haarlem

The Netherlands

+31-23-5511512

www.aimms.com

Booth # 34

Paragon Decision Technology B.V will present AIMMS® 3, the modeling system that offers: (1) a high-level declarative modeling environment with optimization support built-in, for capturing reality into working models much faster than lower-level programming environments; (2) advanced productivity tools to help you set-up your model intuitively and build a (data driven) GUI via point-and-click; and (3) creation of stand-alone end-user applications or optimization components for other applications.

 

Prentice Hall

10 Mountainview Rd.

Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

201-785-2843

www.pearsoned.com

Booth # 28

Prentice Hall is the premier publisher for the decision sciences. Interested in well-known author teams? We've got them. Interested in using technology in class? Our online solutions are sure to make your classroom experience more valuable! Stop by our booth to preview our latest texts and technology in management science/decision modeling, quality management, operations management, supply chain management, operations strategy, simulation, business statistics and more.

 

Resampling Stats

612 N. Jackson St.

Arlington, VA 22201

703-522-2713

www.resample.com

Booth # 39

XLMiner: data mining in Excel. CART, neural networks, discriminant analysis, naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbors, logistic regression and multiple linear regression, association rules, principal components, clustering, box plots, histograms, matrix plots and dendrograms and more. Sampling from and scoring to databases and random partitioning of data into training, validation and test data sets.

 

Responsive Learning Technologies, Inc.

1072 S. De Anza Blvd., #A107392

San Jose, CA 95129-3556

1-877-LEARN-RLT

www.responsive.net

Booth # 21

RLT sells online supplements and assignments for undergraduate and graduate level courses in operations, industrial engineering, management of information technology and finance. Products include the Littlefield Technologies factory simulator game, the eBeer supply chain exercise, and an online case describing the implementation of an ERP system at Hewlett-Packard.

 

SAS

SAS Campus Dr.

Cary, NC 27513

919-531-6916

www.sas.com

Booth # 32

SAS, the leader in analytic and enterprise intelligence, offers integrated, customizable management science and operations research capabilities complemented by broad-based analytic expertise and supported by excellence in data access, data transformation and reporting. Customers worldwide use SAS to model, solve and communicate solutions to complex strategic and tactical planning problems.

 

SIAM

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

3600 UCSC

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-382-9800

www.siam.org

Booth # 7

Visit the SIAM booth to check out our new publications and to hear about the MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization, with John E. Dennis as EIC. There are new books in almost every SIAM series. Recently published books and information about our newest book series will be on hand. You will see sample journal issues of SIAM's renowned journals, plus 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.

 

South-Western/Thomson Learning

10 Davis Dr.

Belmont, CA 94002

650-595-2350

www.swcollege.com

Booths # 2 & 3

South-Western offers a wide spectrum of decision science publications for courses across your curriculum. From our best selling business statistics and management science texts to leading texts in quality, operations and project management our books engage students, enrich them and enable them to succeed.

 

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

175 Fifth Ave.

New York, NY 10010

212-460-1500

www.springer-ny.com

Booth # 13

Save 20% on a wide selection of books and journals in operations research and management science at the Springer booth. New titles include Schrijver - Combinatorial Optimization, Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering by Paul Glasserman, a new LP volume by George Dantzig and many more titles.

 

Stanford University Press

1450 Page Mill Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1124

650-725-0820

www.sup.org

Booth # 20

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

 

StrategyMap, Inc.

401 N. Wabash, Ste. 536

Chicago, IL 60611

312-832-1140

www.strategymap.com

Booth # 33

StrategyMap online tools enable significant financial and quality gains in areas such as: customer service, sales-person effectiveness, communication, effect of incentives, team effectiveness, and strategy execution. StrategyMap enables the measuring, automatic monitoring and management of these previously hard-to-measure activities that relate directly to the effectiveness of people.

 

Syncopation Software Limited

11 West Temple Sheen

London SW14 7RT

United Kingdom

+44-870-444-2580

www.syncopationsoftware.com

Booth # 22

Syncopation Software is a leading provider of analytic software tools. DPL, Syncopation's flagship product, offers powerful tools for decision analysis, risk analysis and real option valuation. DPL links with Excel to bring state-of-the-art uncertainty modeling to the standard platform for financial analysis. DPL Fault Tree allows you to conduct security analyses via structured models of complex systems.

 

Wiley

605 Third Ave.

New York, NY 10158

212-850-6000

www.wiley.com

Booth # 15

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is an independent, global publisher of print and electronic products. Wiley specializes in scientific and technical books, journals, textbooks and education materials for colleges and universities, and professional and consumer books and subscription services.