2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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Palgrave Macmillan 6
Palgrave Macmillan is proud to publish
a unique cross-section of high-
quality research work fundamental to
understanding contemporary issues and
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 53
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 .
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.
Princeton Consultants 20
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.
Provalis Research 28
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.
Responsive Learning Technologies 18
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 45
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.
Exhibit Listings & Technology Tutorials
All Technology Tutorials will take place in the Music City Center, 5 th Avenue Lobby.