Visit the Exhibit Hall to see innovative software products and the latest technical reference materials from these companies and organizations. For more information about the meeting, go to http://meetings.informs.org/Pittsburgh06/.

Exhibits Open Sunday - Wednesday:
Sunday - 12 p.m.-5 p.m.; 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Monday & Tuesday - 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesday - 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

AIMMS® - Product of Paragon Decision Technology - # 206
5400 Carillon Point
Julianastraat 30
Kirkland. WA 98033
425-576-4060
www.aimms.com
We will present AIMMS 3.7, the new release of AIMMS. Stop by at our booth, software demo or pre-conference workshop to check out this new AIMMS release. New features include: Integrated GIS support, Stochastic Programming support, new Syntax Editor, Parallel Solver Session support, Multi-Development features and more. AIMMS is the modeling tool of choice for O.R. professionals when developing optimization-based decision support solutions. It is used by leading companies in a wide range of industries in areas such as supply chain management, energy management, production planning, logistics, forestry planning, finance and consulting. Experience AIMMS 3.7 in more depth and register for the free pre-conference workshop "Optimization Modeling in AIMMS 3.7 — A Stochastic Approach" on Saturday afternoon (Nov 4). For details on AIMMS and a free trial go to www.aimms.com.

AMPL Optimization LLC - # 111
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. More than 30 other solvers work with AMPL; recent extensions support new features of KNITRO 5.0 and CPLEX 10.0.

Aptech Systems, Inc. - # 109
PO Box 250
Maple Valley, 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.

Bank of America - #115
901 West Trade St.
Charlotte, NC 28255
704-683-6909
www.bankofamerica.com
Seeking Quantitative Risk Analyst responsible for independently conducting quantitative analytics and complex modeling projects. Will lead efforts in development of new models, analytic processes or system approaches. Also, will work to create documentation for all activities and may work with technology staff in helping to design systems that will run developed models. Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Blackwell Publishing - # 314
350 Main St.
Malden, MA 02148
781-388-8465
www.blackwellpublishing.com
Blackwell Publishing is a leading international publisher in the area of management. Our books and journals are available at more than 2,000 institutions worldwide. Please stop by our booth for complimentary copies of our journals and visit our Web site www.blackwellpublishing.com for information on all of our publications.

COIN-OR - # 114
www.coin-or.org
Visit the Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research booth to learn about free, open-source tools for O.R. professionals and students. COIN-OR is celebrating its sixth year as a community initiative to build an open infrastructure of algorithms, models, data and other digital tools. COIN-OR is hosted online by INFORMS.

Darden Business Publishing - # 205
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-924-3208
www.dardenpublishing.com
Darden Business Publishing provides case materials, textbooks and online learning sites generated by the renowned faculty at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. To explore our catalogue of interactive multimedia cases, innovative simulations and thought-provoking paper cases, visit www.DardenBusinessPublishing.com.

Dash Optimization - # 308
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. The booth will feature live demonstrations of Dash's Xpress-MP products. Dash offers linear, mixed integer, quadratic, non-linear and stochastic programming capabilities. These components will be showcased along with Dash's modeling and programming language Mosel, Xpress-IVE development environment and Xpress-Application Developer, Dash's new API for GUI development using Mosel.

Decisioneering, Inc. - # 107
1515 Arapahoe St., Ste. 1311
Denver, CO 80202
303-626-0112
www.crystalball.com
Crystal Ball® is a suite of Microsoft® Excel-based applications for Monte Carlo simulation, forecasting, optimization and real options analysis. Crystal Ball transforms your spreadsheets into dynamic models that solve almost any problem involving uncertainty, variability and risk. We provide software, training and consulting services to understand, communicate and manage risk.

Elsevier - # 104
360 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10010
212-633-3756
www.sciencedirect.com
Elsevier publishes many reputable O.R. 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 O.R.-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. Eleven published and five forthcoming volumes. www.elsevier.com/locate/horms-online.

Frontline Systems, Inc. - # 307
P.O. Box 4288
Incline Village, NV 89450
775-831-0300
www.solver.com
If you create optimization or simulation models, visit our booth for a free trial CD with our just-released Version 7.0 tools: Premium Solver Platform, with new support for Excel 2007 and million-row worksheets; Risk Solver Engine, for ultra-fast simulation in Excel; Solver Platform SDK, the fastest-growing toolkit for .NET, Java and MATLAB on Linux and Windows; and seven Solver Engines for your largest optimization models.

GAMS Development Corp. - # 214
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 for complex, large-scale modeling applications, and allows the user to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

ILOG, Inc. - # 209
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 free technical product workshops and visit our booth. See what's new in ILOG CPLEX 10.1. See the new releases of ILOG OPL Development Studio 5.0 and ILOG Optimization Decision Manager 2.0 (ODM). What problems can we help you solve?

Imagine That, Inc. - # 200
6830 Via Del Oro, Ste. 230
San Jose, CA 95119
408-365-0305
www.imaginethatinc.com
Accessible, powerful and intuitive, ExtendSim 7 sets a new standard for simulation software in educational and professional settings. Stop by and see the new 3D animation, database and component libraries in the upcoming version. ExtendSim, reflecting your reality.

JMP - # 302
SAS Campus Dr.
Cary, NC 27513
919-531-0393
www.jmp.com
JMP is comprehensive, interactive statistical desktop software from SAS that provides a dynamic, interactive way to interact with and analyze data. Busy professionals can easily spot data patterns with one glance at a chart or graph, perform sequential analysis from that point, and compare the results all in one window.

Ketron Optimization - # 113
2001 Jefferson Davis Hwy., #1211
Arlington, VA 22202-3619
703-412-3201
www.ketronmn.com
Ketron Optimization specializes in design, development and application of mathematical programming optimization and modeling software, and off-the-shelf decision support applications. The software is used as an optimization toolkit by analysts in every sector of the economy. Ketron also provides support for users of the software — support ranges from hotline assistance through complete application-system development.

LINDO Systems, Inc. - # 300
1415 North Dayton St.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-988-7422
www.lindo.com
LINDO Systems will be featuring our optimization modeling software for solving large scale linear, integer, nonlinear and global problems. We will be demonstrating LINDO API, our powerful solver engine; LINGO, our integrated modeling language and solvers; and What'sBest!, our large-scale Excel solver. Stop by for a free trial CD.

Lumina Decision Systems, Inc. - # 110
26010 Highland Way
Los Gatos, CA 95033
650-212-1212
www.lumina.com
Analytica — beyond the spreadsheet: Analytica is a graphic tool for creating and communicating quantitative models. Serious modelers prefer Analytica to spreadsheets because of its transparency, flexibility for multiple dimensions, efficient Monte Carlo, scalability and its powerful new Optimizer. Analytica models are typically 10 to 100 times more compact than equivalent spreadsheets, and correspondingly easier to build, understand and audit.

Maximal Software, Inc. - # 202
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 - # 207
Two Penn Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10121
212-904-2892
www.mhhe.com
McGraw-Hill is the leading provider of textbooks and technology applications in higher education, offering high quality and carefully developed content to support all courses. McGraw-Hill publishes market-leading projects in management science, operations management, operations research, supply chain management, project management, service operations, quality management, simulation and statistics.

Minitab, Inc. - # 106
1829 Pine Hall Rd.
State College, PA 16801-3008
814-238-3280
www.minitab.com
Minitab® is the leading statistical software package used in education. Instructors at more than 4,000 colleges, universities and high schools around the world use Minitab because it contains all the statistical methods students need and is powerful, reliable and easy to use. For a free demo, go to www.Minitab.com.

National Science Foundation - # 312
2100 Reston Pkwy., Ste. 350
Reston, VA 20191
703-738-9170
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, computer science and the social sciences. NSF fulfills its mission by issuing limited-term grants — about 10,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years — to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. Most of these awards go to individuals or small groups of investigators. Others provide funding for research centers, instruments and facilities that allow scientists, engineers and students to work at the outermost frontiers of knowledge. NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible.

Palgrave Macmillan - # 101
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6XS
United Kingdom
+ 44-1256-302959
www.palgrave-journals.com
Palgrave Macmillan is a leading publisher of journals in operations research, including International Abstracts in OR (in connection with IFORS) and the journals of the OR Society: Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practice and, new for 2006, Journal of Simulation.

Palisade Corp. - # 108
798 Cascadilla St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-277-8000
www.palisade.com
Palisade Corporation is a leading global provider of risk management, decision analysis, optimization and statistical analysis software. @RISK, Palisade's flagship product, is a Monte Carlo simulation add-in for Microsoft Excel providing advanced uncertainty and risk modeling. Palisade's DecisionTools Suite, NeuralTools and StatTools significantly broaden and enhance decision processes dependent on data analysis.

Responsive Learning Technologies - # 305
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 - # 213
4740 Murphy Canyon Rd., Ste. 200
San Diego, CA 92108
619-543-8880
www.salford-systems.com
Salford Systems will demo both RandomForests and TreeNet/MART, Leo Breiman's and Jerome Friedman's newest advances to data mining. Both RandomForests and TreeNet enable the modeler to construct predictive models of extraordinary accuracy. Models are built up gradually through a large collection of small trees, each of which improves on its predecessors through an error-correcting strategy.

SAS - # 204
SAS Campus Dr.
Cary, NC 27513
919-531-6916
www.sas.com
O.R. professionals understand that operations research doesn't stand alone; success in O.R. is built on broad-based analytic strength. That's why SAS integrates operations research with a robust suite of data access and handling, analytic, and information delivery capabilities. Come see what's new and what's next in SAS optimization, simulation, scheduling and more.

SCA Technologies LLC - # 102
357 N. Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-683-4200
www.sca-tech.com
SCA Technologies LLC is a leading software solutions and services provider in the area of predictive operations cost modeling and optimization. Our software enables global organizations with manufacturing and supply chains to identify opportunities that significantly improve their cost structure and efficiency to their decision-making processes.

SIAM - # 211
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. Browse recently published optimization and math programming books, get sample journal issues and receive information on publishing with SIAM. Membership information and applications will be available for those individuals interested in becoming a SIAM member. Don't forget to pick up a copy of SIAM News for the road.

SIMUL8 Corporation - # 305A
225 Franklin St. — 26th Fl.
Boston, MA 02110
800-547-6024
www.simul8.com
Here at SIMUL8 Corporation we are well known for our $1,495 fast and friendly simulation software. But did you know we also develop powerful embedded simulation solutions and systems, focused for particular business issues? We will be showing SIMUL8 software and some of these solutions during the exhibition.

South-Western/Thomson - # 301, 303
10 Davis Dr.
Belmont, CA 94002
661-222-9227
www.swlearning.com
Thomson/South-Western strives to provide you the material needed to make decision science relevant and interesting to your students as they prepare for the world of work. As the top business publisher, we can help you with the highest quality print and technology offerings for undergraduate as well as graduate statistics, management science and operations management courses.

Springer - # 208, 210, 212
101 Philip Dr.
Norwell, MA 02061
781-871-6600
www.springeronline.com
Welcome to the Springer booth! Browse our extensive product offerings in operations research and enjoy a 20-percent discount on all your purchases. Meet Gary Folven, Senior Editor in Business & O.R. Help us celebrate publication of the 100th volume in Fred Hillier's International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. For more information, visit: www.springer.com.

Stanford University Press - # 306
1450 Page Mill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1124
650-725-0820
www.sup.org
Our featured imprints — Stanford Business Books and Stanford Economics and Finance — offer professional books with a foundation in the latest theory and academic research in operations management, economics, finance, business strategy, quantitative methods, innovation and technology as they impact the theory of the firm.

statistics.com - # 215
612 N. Jackson St.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-2713
www.statistics.com
Statistics.com is the leading provider of online professional development in statistics, featuring more than 50 online courses. Distinguished experts answer your questions; there are no set times when you must be online. Statistics.com also sells XLMiner, the only comprehensive data mining add-in for Excel, and Resampling Stats for Excel.

StatPoint, Inc. - # 112
2325 Dulles Corner Blvd., Ste. 500
Herndon, VA 20171
800-232-STAT
www.statgraphics.com
StatPoint, Inc., developers of STATGRAPHICS statistical computing products, introduces STATGRAPHICS Mobile for handheld computers (Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, or compatible device running Windows Mobile 5) and STATGRAPHICS Centurion XV Multilingual Edition, allowing users to operate the program in one language while creating output in another.

Syncopation Software Limited - # 203
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 forthcoming DPL Release 7.0 broadens its offering by bringing class-leading decision support analytics to portfolio prioritization in a packaged, turnkey solution.

Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press - # 103, 105
CRC Press
6000 Broken Sound Pkwy. NW Ste. 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487
561-994-0555
www.taylorandfrancis.com
Taylor & Francis, incorporating Chapman & Hall/CRC, is a premier publisher of scientific books, journals and electronic databases. Please stop by our booth to see our latest books in operations research, pick up a free journal sample copy or buy a book at a conference discount of up to 25 percent.

Univ. of Maryland University College - # 310
Worldwide Faculty Recruitment
3501 University Blvd. East
Adelphi, MD 20783-8067
240-582-2639
www.umuc.edu/faculty/recruit
Knowledge is power — share it! Teach for UMUC part-time, full-time, anytime.

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

USC-Viterbi School of Engineering - # 304
3650 McClintock Ave. OHE 106
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-821-2475
www.den.usc.edu
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Distance Education Network provides the opportunity to earn a Master of Science degree in engineering ENTIRELY ONLINE, with no on-campus attendance required. More than 30 M.S. programs are offered, including Industrial & Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Wiley - # 201
111 River St. — 4th Fl.
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-748-6896
www.wiley.com
Wiley is a global publisher of professional, consumer, scientific and technical books, journals, textbooks and education materials. Among its many imprints are the world renowned "For Dummies" line as well as Webster's New World, CliffNotes, Frommers, Betty Crocker books and Jossey-Bass. To see more about these and our other imprints, visit Wiley at www.wiley.com.

Ziena Optimization, Inc. - # 100
1801 Maple Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60201
847-491-2504
www.ziena.com
Ziena Optimization sells KNITRO, the premier solver for nonlinear optimization problems. KNITRO computes local minima for smooth functions, and handles nonlinear constraints (convex and nonconvex), bound constraints, MPECs, systems of equations, nonlinear least squares, LPs and QPs. KNITRO offers three different algorithms (interior point direct, interior point CG and active set), and a basic multi-start capability for global searching. KNITRO includes programmatic interfaces for C/C++, Fortran and Java, and is available as a solver for most modeling languages.






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