2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

All Technology Tutorials will take place in the Music City Center, 5 th Avenue Lobby.

Palgrave Macmillan www.palgrave.com

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Provalis Research

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www.provalisresearch.com

Palgrave Macmillan is proud to publish a unique cross-section of high- quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and

Provalis Research is a leading developer of text analytics

software with groundbreaking qualitative and quantitative analysis programs, such as QDA Miner, an innovative mixed- methods qualitative data analysis software; WordStat, a powerful add-on module for computer assisted content analysis and text mining; and Simstat, an easy yet powerful statistical software. One of the most distinctive features of these tools is their interoperability, allowing researchers to integrate numerical and textual data into a single project file and to seamlessly move back and forth between quantitative and qualitative data analysis, as well as to easily explore relationships between numerical and textual data. Sunday, November 13, 1:30–2:15pm Technology Tutorial: Provalis Research will showcase its integrated collection of text analytics software. QDA Miner is an easy-to-use qualitative and mixed methods software that meets the needs of researchers performing qualitative data analysis and would like to code more quickly and more consistently larger amounts of documents. It offers high level computer assistance for qualitative coding with innovative text search tools that help users speed up the coding process as well as advanced statistical and visualization tools. Users with even bigger text data can also take advantage of WordStat. This add-on module to QDA Miner can be used to analyze huge amounts of unstructured information, quickly extract themes, find trends over time, and automatically identify patterns and references to specific concepts using categorization dictionaries.

developments in operations research and information technology. Our growing portfolio in this area includes the journals of the OR Society and the OR Essentials series. With offices in London and New York, and sales teams across 50 countries, we have a global reach, and as part of Springer Nature, are proud to uphold an unbroken tradition of over 170 years of academic publishing.

Palisade Corporation www.palisade.com

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Palisade Corporation is the maker of the market leading risk and decision

analysis software @RISK and the DecisionTools ® Suite. Virtually all Palisade software adds in to Microsoft Excel, ensuring flexibility, ease-of-use, and broad appeal across a wide range of industry sectors. Free trial downloads at www.palisade.com. Sunday, November 13, 11–11:45am Technology Tutorial: Introduction to Risk and Decision Analysis using @RISK and The DecisionTools Suite. This software presentation is designed to provide an entry-level introduction into probabilistic analysis and will show how Monte Carlo simulation and other techniques can be applied to your everyday business analyses. Using Monte Carlo simulation, @RISK will analyze many different scenarios all at once, giving you more insight into what could happen. We’ll look at example models including a basic revenues/cost/profits model, an NPV model, and a Cost Estimation model, to give you an idea of how quickly you can get started in probabilistic modeling in Excel. If you build models in Excel then Palisade solutions can almost certainly help you to make more informed decisions, right from your desktop. For more than 30 years, Palisade software and solutions have been used to make better decisions. Cost estimation, NPV analysis, operational risk registers, portfolio analysis, insurance loss modeling, reserves estimation, schedule risk analysis, budgeting, sales forecasting, and demand forecasting are just some of the ways in which the tools are applied. This presentation will demonstrate how easy – and necessary – it is to implement quantitative risk analysis in any business. Founded in 1980, Princeton Consultants blends advanced analytics, data science, software development and management consulting to help industry leaders and fast-growing innovators transform performance. Based on our track record of developing and implementing critical operational systems, we review and improve optimization and predictive analytics models through our quality assurance service. We are a member of the INFORMS Roundtable. Princeton Consultants www.princeton.com 20

Exhibit Listings & Technology Tutorials

Responsive Learning Technologies

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www.responsive.net

Responsive Learning Technologies provides compelling business simulations to teach Operations Management and Supply

Chain Management in a dynamic context and adaptive self- study software to help students prepare for beginning a degree program. Our software has enriched courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels for thousands of students at hundreds of institutions in dozens of countries. Our products are developed with leading scholars, to achieve well- defined learning objectives.

RPI, Lally School of Business https://lallyschool.rpi.edu

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At the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, we develop aspiring business leaders who have a passion

for innovation with the ability to work across business functions. Our programs are built around innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in the global economy. The Lally School offers eight undergraduate concentrations including: Accounting, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management. It also offers an MBA; MS degrees in business analytics, supply chain management, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, quantitative finance and risk analytics, or management; and a PhD in management.

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