2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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

SAS - GAP/EDU www.sas.com

2

and reporting capabilities, focusing primarily on case studies drawn from our successful work with customers across a broad range of industries.

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps

SAS JMP Division www.jmp.com

3

customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW ® . Tuesday, November 15, 8:30–9:30am Technology Tutorial: Analysis of a Presidential Debate Using SAS Text Analytics. Presenter: Andre de Waal. During the last year of a presidential term in the United States of America, the race to the White House has everybody excited. News channels and newspapers provide “expert” analysis of day to day events. However, many of the expert opinions are biased and reflect a commentator’s political viewpoint or affiliation. Can text mining be used to look at the data objectively and cut through the political rhetoric? In this talk, a script of one of the 2016 presidential debates is analyzed with SAS Text Miner. An attempt is made to look at the data “objectively” and to let the data speak. Words are counted and stemmed, documents are grouped into clusters, topics are identified and candidates are analyzed while trying to determine what separates one candidate from the rest of the field. Although it is impossible to predict using text mining alone who will win the presidential election, text mining could provide some insight into the election process (of which the debates are an integral part) that is not generally available to the general populace and might influence their choice of presidential candidate. best and most complete set of coordinated analytic capabilities comes from SAS. Data integration, statistics, data and text mining, econometrics, and forecasting integrate deeply with operations research features like optimization, simulation, and scheduling. SAS helps organizations around the world build analytic models, populate them with relevant data and insights, communicate recommended decisions effectively, and surface these capabilities within accessible, business-oriented interfaces. See how SAS can help you understand the past and present, anticipate the future, and make better decisions. Tuesday, November 15, 11–11:45am Technology Tutorial: “Solving Business Problems with SAS Analytics and OPTMODEL.” Abstract: SAS provides a diverse array of analytics, including data integration, statistical analysis, data/text mining, forecasting, and reporting, all integrated with operations research capabilities in optimization, discrete- event simulation, and scheduling. The most prominent SAS optimization component is the OPTMODEL procedure. OPTMODEL incorporates an algebraic optimization modeling language that provides unified support for LP, MILP, QP, NLP, CLP, and network-oriented models and methods, including an expanding suite of standard solvers and support for customized algorithms. We’ll demonstrate OPTMODEL’s power and versatility in building and solving optimization models, noting the significant improvements resulting from recently added features. We’ll emphasize integration with SAS data, analytic, SAS Institute Inc. www.sas.com The effective use of analytics is more important than ever for today’s organizations. The most effective analytics are coordinated, and the

JMP ® statistical discovery software from SAS is the tool of choice for scientists, engineers and other data explorers worldwide. JMP links dynamic data visualization with powerful

statistics, in memory and on the desktop. Interactive and visual, JMP reveals insights that raw tables of numbers or static graphs tend to hide. JMP simplifies data access, cleanup and processing, and makes it easy to share results. It includes comprehensive capabilities for: Statistical analysis, design of experiments, multivariate analysis, quality and reliability analysis, scripting, graphing and charting, and more. Tuesday, November 15, 11:45am–12:30pm Technology Tutorial: SAS Institute, JMP Division: Interactive Data Analysis and Modeling with JMP 13 Pro Mia Stephens, JMP Academic Ambassador JMP ® Statistical Discovery Software is dynamic and interactive desktop software for data exploration, visualization, analysis, and modeling. In this workshop we’ll use case studies to illustrate how to interactively build, compare and deploy predictive models using the newly release JMP 13 Pro. We use the Graph Builder ® , data filter and other tools to get to know and prepare our data. Then, we explore a variety of predictive models (decision trees, regression, neural networks, and penalized regression), and use the Prediction Profiler and the Solution Path to interactively explore parameters and select potential models. Finally, we compare a variety of competing models using Model Comparison, and use the Model Depot to easily deploy these models.

Exhibit Listings & Technology Tutorials

1

SIAM

44

www.siam.org

Visit the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics booth to check out our new publications, including recent titles in the MOS-SIAM Series

on Optimization such as Minimum-Volume Ellipsoids: Theory and Algorithms (Todd) and Electrical Transmission System Cascades and Vulnerability: An Operations Research Viewpoint (Bienstock), plus other bestselling SIAM books, all available at a conference discount. You’ll also find sample issues of SIAM’s renowned journals, including SIOPT, along with information and applications for anyone interested in becoming a SIAM member. And don’t forget to pick up a copy of SIAM News for the road.

SIMIO LLC

41

www.simio.com

Simio Simulation and Scheduling Software is the most advanced solution on the market. With simulation, it is the only

software that is fully object oriented with process and objects being defined graphically with no programming. Unlike other scheduling software, Simio allows you to introduce risk into your production schedule with its patented Risk Based Planning and Scheduling. This dual function in Simio not only helps you improve your business performance from a facility design perspective, but also helps you maximize business results by optimizing the use of critical resources and assessing the risk associated with operational decisions.

13