OR/MS Today - October 1998 - Guide to Exhibitors

October 1998

INFORMS SEATTLE FALL 1998 MEETING
Guide to Exhibitors

INFORMS SEATTLE FALL 1998 MEETING
Guide to Exhibitors
The INFORMS Fall 1998 meeting will be held in Seattle on Oct. 25-28. 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 conference, see the supplement included in the August issue of OR/MS Today (print edition) or go to http://www.informs.org/Conf/Seattle98.

Applied Decision Analysis, Inc.
2710 Sand Hill Rd.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-854-7101
URL: http://www.adainc.com
Booth: #12
ADA is a management consulting firm specializing in applying quantitative solutions to management problems. We publish DPL, decision analysis software for Windows. DPL integrates influence diagrams, decision trees and spreadsheets for professional decision analysis modeling. Visit our booth to see our new products and learn about our new consulting and R&D directions.

AutoSimulations, Inc.
655 Medical Dr.
Bountiful, UT 84010
801-298-1398
E-mail: info@autosim.com
Booth: #15
AutoSimulations develops and markets the discrete event simulation software package, AutoMod, to simulate real-world conditions to design, analyze and test the efficiency of manufacturing and material handling systems. Also available from AutoSimulations is AutoSched AP, a finite capacity scheduling and planning tool to increase throughput and resource utilization.

Baltzer Science Publishers
P.O. Box 221
Bussum 1400 AE
The Netherlands
+31-35-6954250
URL: http://www.baltzer.nl
Booth: #18
Baltzer Science Publishers are the publishers of the following journals: NETNOMICS; Environmental Modeling and Assessment; Computational Geosciences; Health Care Management Science; Information Technology and Management; Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence; Annals of Operations Research; Applied Mathematics and Mechanics; Journal of Mathematical Chemistry; Queuing Systems; Advances in Computational Mathematics; Approximation Theory and its Applications; Numerical Algorithms; Cluster Computing; Interoperable Communication Networks; Mobile Networks and Applications; Telecommunication Systems; Wireless Networks; Wireless Communication (CD).

Compass Modeling Solutions Inc.
1005 Terminal Way #100
Reno, NV 89502
702-322-7600
E-mail: info@modeling.com
Booth: #13
Compass Modeling Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider to business, government and nonprofit organizations of high quality mathematical programming and modeling software and tools, consulting services, and technical support to aid management in solution of resource allocation, planning, operations and decision support problems.

Dash Optimization Inc.
115 River Rd. Ste. 1203
Edgewater, NJ 07020
201-313-5297
URL: http://www.dashopt.com
Booth: #40
Dash Optimization Inc. provides the most advanced modeling and optimization software. Our products and services allow our clients to significantly enhance their productivity by quickly and reliably solving their hardest optimization problems. The integrated modeling and optimization capabilities of our XPRESS-MP software make it easy for companies to develop, test and solve complex models arising from a wide variety of applications

Decisioneering, Inc.
1515 Arapahoe St. Suite 1330
Denver, CO 80202
303-534-1515
E-mail: sales@decisioneering.com
Booth: #39
Denver-based Decisioneering's mission is to be the modeling solution provider for companies looking for better ways to make difficult decisions. Decisioneering has three main product lines: Crystal Ball, Crystal Ball Pro and Analytica. Crystal Ball picks up where Microsoft Excel spreadsheets end by giving you the ability to perform Monte Carlo analysis on spreadsheet models. Crystal Ball Pro's Optquest technology provides an evolutionary step to this process by determining the optimal choice for a given business decision based upon multiple Crystal Ball simulations. Analytica is the world's first general purpose, object-oriented, visual modeling tool.

Duxbury Press
10 Davis Drive
Belmont, CA 94002
650-595-2350
URL: http://www.duxbury.com
Booths: #23 & 24
Duxbury is an imprint of Brooks/Cole Publishing, an International Thomson Publishing company. Duxbury is an educational publisher focusing exclusively in the fields of statistics and quantitative methods in all disciplines and at all levels of learning. Come by our booths and review recent works by Chris Albright, David Bell, Bob Clemen, Bob Fourer, David Gay, Ed Kao, Craig Kirkwood, Larry Lapin, Sam Savage, Art Schleifer, Linus Schrage and Wayne Winston.

Elsevier Science
655 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10010
212-633-3758
Booths: #9 & 10
The OR/MS publication program by Elsevier Science offers comprehensive international coverage of the latest research and developments in the field. Topical Handbooks and a wide range of journal publications cover a wide spectrum of topics. Come and check us out at the booth or have a preview starting at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/orms

Frontline Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 4288
Incline Village, NV 89450
702-831-0300
URL: http://www.solver.com
Booth: #31
Frontline Systems developed the Solvers/Optimizers in Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 and Quatrro Pro. Our Premium Solvers for Excel are compatible upgrades offering greater capacity, much greater speed, new diagnostic aids and improved ease-of-use. Our Solver DLL products are used in custom applications for linear, integer, and nonlinear optimization.

IBM
522 South Rd. MS/P356
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
914-435-6685
E-mail: kenruss@us.ibm.com
Booths: #1 & 2
IBM, a provider of world class solver software, will showcase new products in the Optimization Solutions and Library family, with particular focus on powerful extensions to the Optimization Library and enhancements to the Optimization solutions stand-alone solver products.

ILOG
1901 Landings Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-390-9000
E-mail: info@ilog.com
Booths: #16 & 17
ILOG produces the world's finest optimization software. The proven power of ILOG CPLEX Simplex, MIP, Barrier/QP and Parallel solvers is unmatched. Also, ILOG is the world leader in constraint based programming. ILOG Solver is a constraint-based solving engine providing unmatched algorithmic power and a rich modeling environment. Add-on modules extend and customize the product for specific optimization problems in manufacturing, transportation, logistics and telecommunications.

Imagine That, Inc.
6830 Via Del Oro, Ste. 230
San Jose, CA 95119
408-365-0305
Booth: #32
E-mail: extend@imaginethatinc.com
Extend v4.1 is here! With the best hierarchy in the industry, built-in activity-based costing, customizable animation, one-click output analysis, automatic report generation, integrated development and authoring environment, and hot-links, you'll see why Extend is the acknowledged standard for discrete event/continuous/combined simulation in top universities and corporations alike.

INFORMS — Membership
901 Elkridge Landing Rd., Ste. 400
Linthicum, MD 21090
800-446-3676
E-mail: member.services@informs.org
Booths: #21 & 22
Created in 1995 through the merger of ORSA and TIMS, INFORMS is offering exciting new services to its members. Visit the INFORMS booth and pick up complimentary copies of our nine prestigious journals and OR/MS Today.

Irwin/McGraw-Hill
2 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121-2298
212-904-2892
E-mail: donnelly@mcgraw-hill.com
Booths: #28 & 29
Irwin/McGraw-Hill is the leading college publisher for business textbooks. Our market position is the result of our world-renowned authorship, our unique product development model and our strong relationship with customers. This, combined with innovative technology solutions, helps Irwin/McGraw-Hill to offer products of the highest quality for students worldwide.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
605 3rd Avenue
New York, NY 10158-0012
212-850-6000
URL: http://www.wiley.com
Booth: #11
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.

Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive
Norwell, MA 02061
781-871-6600
E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com
Booth: #20
Kluwer Academic Publishers will exhibit the latest research books and journals in the areas of operations research/management science and optimization. Visit our booth at the INFORMS Fall 1998 meeting. Sample copies of the latest issues of Kluwer's prestigious journals will be on display and newly published research books: "Tabu Search" — new in paperback, by Fred Glover; "Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design, Second Edition," by Richard M. Burton and Borge Obel; and "Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems," by Muhammad El-Taha.

LINDO Systems Inc.
1415 North Dayton St.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-988-7422
E-mail: info@lindo.com
Booth: #30
LINDO Systems will be demonstrating our line of popular mathematical modeling packages including releases of: LINDO — our powerful linear and integer programming engine, LINGO — our integrated modeling language with linear/nonlinear solvers, and What'sBest! — our large scale linear/nonlinear spreadsheet solver.

Maximal Software, Inc.
2111 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 700
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-7900
URL: http://www.maximal-usa.com
Booth: #14
MPL Modeling System is a complete model development environment for linear programming models. Full advantage is taken of the Graphical User Interface with new versions available running under MS Windows (95/NT/3.1), Macintosh and Motif (UNIX). MPL offers direct links through memory with solvers such as CPLEX, XA and OSL as well as to relational databases such as MS Access, Paradox, Dbase and FoxPro.

Palisade Corp.
31 Decker Road
Newfield, NY 14867
607-277-8000
800-432-7475
URL: http://www.palisade.com
Booth: #8
Palisade Corporation offers advanced software for risk and decision analysis. Our products include @RISK (risk analysis via Monte Carlo simulation), Precision TreeÆ (decision analysis via decision trees and influence diagrams) and the Decision ToolsÆ Suite, an integrated set of risk and decision analysis programs. Contact us today for a free catalog, demo CD and trial versions.

Prentice Hall
Business Publishing Division
1 Lake St.
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
201-236-7283
E-mail: elena_picinic@prehnall.com
Booth: #3
Prentice Hall Business Publishing is dedicated to producing the highest quality educational materials for all business-related disciplines in the worldwide higher education market. Our mission is to add value to the educational process by helping professors develop students who are better prepared to achieve global excellence!

PROMODEL Corporation
1875 South State
Orem, UT 84097
E-mail: education@promodel.com
Booth: #37
ProModel, the leader in the simulation industry, features a powerful, easy-to-use interface for designing and analyzing your business processes. ProModel is the only simulation tool with a built-in optimization feature. The impressive user base includes such institutions as MIT, GE, Ford, The Mayo Clinic and NASA.

South-Western College Publishing
5101 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45227
513-271-8811
URL: http://www.swcollege.com
Booth: #25
Welcome to South-Western College Publishing. Our position as a market leader in Decision Sciences and Business Statistics higher education is built on time-tested values and adaptability to changing market needs. Stop by our booth, and you'll find a wealth of information on the latest South-Western texts, like those by Anderson/Sweeney/Williams, Norman Gaither, and James Evans! South-Western is part of the International Thomson Publishing (ITP) family of publishers.

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
212-460-1500
URL: http://www.springer-ny.com
Booth: #19
For over 155 years Springer-Verlag has published high quality books and journals covering a wide array of topics. Please stop by the Springer booth to see our very latest titles in pure and applied probability, artificial intelligence, business process reenginering, combinatorics, decision analysis, information systems, linear programming, statistics/quality control, and stochastic processes, among many others — all at a 20 percent discount!

Stockton Press
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire RG21 6XS
United Kingdom
44-1256-302857
URL: http://www.stockton-press.co.uk
Booth: #26
Stockton Press, an international publisher, will be displaying various OR titles such as the Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Information Systems, and also International Abstracts in Operations Research. Also available on the stand will be a demo of the new International Abstracts in Operations Research CD-ROM.

Tom Sawyer Software
804 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-848-0853
URL: http://www.tomsawyer.com
Booth: #27
Tom Sawyer Software produces object-positioning and diagramming component technology for use by corporate enterprises, software providers, and educational institutions. Software application developers utilize Tom Sawyer Software's technology in order to solve difficult modeling, complexity management, and diagram visualization problems. The company's product families include the Graph Layout Toolkit and the Graph Editor Toolkit, which are both available for a wide range of platforms and operating systems.

Visual Thinking International Ltd.
55A Port St. East
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada
905-271-3620
URL: http://www.vtil.com
Booth: #6
Visual Thinking presents the next generation of simulation products. SIMUL8 uses the most advanced software design technology to provide you with a powerful yet intuitive and easy-to-learn simulation system. SIMUL8, at $495, offers you an unbelievable value-for-money simulation tool with 3D walk-through animation, optimization, time view presentation, and activity-based costing plug-ins.

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