2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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

GAMS Development Corp

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www.gams.com

FICO

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www.fico.com

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high- performance solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex,

FICO is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions that drive higher levels of

growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. The company’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. FICO provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption. These include the FICO ® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health. Tuesday, November 15, 4:30–5:15pm Technology Tutorial: How to deploy your analytic models to empower non-technical business users. You have a team with great analytics background. They have developed advanced analytical tools using SAS, Python, R, or with your current traditional optimization solver. They have derived crucial insights from your data, and figured out how your decisions shape your customers’ behaviors. Now it’s time to put these critical analytical insights in the hands of your non-technical business users. In this tutorial, we will cover how FICO’s Optimization Suite (including Xpress and Optimization Modeler) make it possible to embed your analytic models in user- friendly business-user facing applications. Learn how you can supercharge your analytic models with simulation, optimization, reporting, what-if analysis and agile extensibility. and developers to get results quickly with just a browser, spreadsheet, or programming language, instead of expensive enterprise software with steep learning curves. See how easily you can solve optimization, simulation/risk analysis, forecasting and data mining problems–starting for free, and scaling up easily to the largest models, using AnalyticSolver.com, Analytic Solver ® for desktop Excel, and our RASON ® modeling language and REST API. Use our Solver and XLMiner ® SDKs for C#, Java, C++, R and Python to create your own analytics applications. Find your fastest path to real analytics results. Tuesday, November 15, 8–8:45am Technology Tutorial: AnalyticSolver.com: Data Mining, Simulation and Optimization in Your Web Browser. AnalyticSolver.com is the new, simple, point-and-click way to create and run analytic models using only your web browser – that also works interchangeably with your spreadsheet. Whether you need forecasting, data mining and text mining, Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis, and conventional and stochastic optimization, you can “do it all” in the cloud. We’ll show how you can upload and download Excel workbooks, pull data from SQL Server databases and Apache Spark Big Data clusters, solve large-scale models, and visualize results – without leaving your browser. If you’re more comfortable working on your own laptop or server, we’ll show how you can do that, too. Frontline Systems, Inc. 39 www.solver.com Frontline Systems is democratizing analytics, enabling business analysts

large-scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted to new situations. Come to our booth to learn more about GAMS or ask for an evaluation license. Visit our technology workshop or software demo. Monday, November 14, 1:30–2:15pm Technology Tutorial: We demonstrate many of the capabilities of the GAMS software as we start with a simple optimization model and build it out by adding nonlinear and integer variables to the model and connecting it with a GUI in a sample application.

Gurobi Optimization www.gurobi.com

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Gurobi Optimization is dedicated to helping our users succeed with optimization. We provide

the leading math programming solvers, offering best-in-class performance as well as a broad array of tools for developing and deploying optimization applications on top of these solvers. We support all of the most popular programming languages, as well as client-server architectures, cloud computing, and distributed optimization. We also provide outstanding, easy-to- reach support and transparent, no-surprises pricing. Monday, November 14, 4:30–5:15pm Technology Tutorial: Advanced Python Modeling with Gurobi. Are you looking for an environment that combines the expressiveness of a modeling language with the power and flexibility of a programming language? The Gurobi Python interface allows you to build concise and efficient optimization model, using high-level modeling constructs. This tutorial will provide an overview of these capabilities, including an introduction to new modeling features that significantly enhance the expressiveness of our environment. should respond. IBM is paving the way to the next generation of analytics solutions and platforms by combining descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics with the power of cloud and cognitive insights. These advanced analytics capabilities provide robust; user friendly platforms aimed at helping you solve even the most complex business and research problems. Visit the IBM Advanced Analytics booth to learn more Monday, November 14, 11:45am–12:30pm Technology Tutorial: IBM Decision Optimization: Performance gains and New features in CPLEX and CP Optimizers. In this tutorial, you will learn about the new CPLEX and CP Optimizer engine features in the upcoming IBM CPLEX Optimization Studio release, including how to use the new features, how they can help you during the development of your model, and how they can speed up the resolution of your models. IBM 35 www.ibm.com Critical business decisions can be made with ease when you know what is likely to happen in the future and how you

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