2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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SAS - GAP/EDU 2
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through
innovative analytics, business
intelligence and data management
software and services, SAS helps
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.
SAS Institute Inc. 1
The effective use of analytics is
more important than ever for today’s
organizations. The most effective
analytics are coordinated, and the
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,
and reporting capabilities, focusing primarily on case studies
drawn from our successful work with customers across a broad
range of industries.
SAS JMP Division 3
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.
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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.
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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.
Exhibit Listings & Technology Tutorials
All Technology Tutorials will take place in the Music City Center, 5th Avenue Lobby.