2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting Program

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AIMMS 48
AIMMS is an innovative technology
company with offices in Europe, the U.S.
and Asia. Half of the global Fortune top
20 corporations rely on AIMMS because
of our unique analytics, modeling and
optimization platform that supports both strategic and daily
operational challenges such as supply chain optimization,
strategic sourcing, pricing, workforce optimization, portfolio
optimization and production planning and scheduling.
Amazon 54
Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company where
people can find and discover anything
they want to buy online. Amazon’s evolution from website to
e-commerce and publishing partner to development platform
is driven by the pioneering spirit that is part of the company’s
DNA. The world’s brightest technology minds come to Amazon
to research and develop new technologies that improve the
lives of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and
developers around the world. Because that’s what being Earth’s
most customer-centric company is all about, and it’s still Day 1
at Amazon.
AMPL Optimization Inc. 32
AMPL’s modeling language and system give
you an exceptionally powerful and natural
tool for developing and deploying the
complex optimization models that arise in
diverse business applications. AMPL lets you
formulate problems the way you think of them, while providing
access to the advanced algorithmic alternatives that you need
to find good solutions fast. It features an integrated scripting
language for automating analyses and building iterative
optimization schemes; access to spreadsheet and database
files; and application programming interfaces for embedding
within larger systems. AMPL works with over 30-powerful
optimization engines including all of the most widely used
large-scale solvers.
Monday, November 14, 5:15–6pm
Technology Tutorial: AMPL in the Cloud: UsingOnline Services to
Develop andDeployOptimization Applications through Algebraic
Modeling Robert Fourer, President AMPLOptimization Inc., 4er@ampl.
com. Optimizationmodeling systems first appeared online almost 20
years ago, not long after web browsers came intowidespread use.
This presentation describes the evolution of optimization alternatives
in what has come to be known as cloud computing, with emphasis on
the role of the AMPLmodeling language inmakingmodels easy to
develop and deploy. We start with the pioneering freeNEOS Server,
and then comparemore recent commercial offerings such as Gurobi
Instant Cloud; the benefits of these solver services are readily leveraged
through their use with the AMPLmodeling tools. We conclude
by introducingQuanDec, which creates web-based collaborative
applications fromAMPLmodels. Robert Fourer, an authority on the
design and implementation of computer software to support large-
scale optimization, studied at MIT and Stanford andwas a professor of
Industrial Engineering andManagement Sciences for over 30 years. He
is a founder and is currently President of AMPLOptimization Inc. and is
co-author of a popular book onmodeling in the AMPL language.
AnyLogic North America, LLC 27
AnyLogic Software–the first and only
tool that brings together System
Dynamics, Process-centric (Discrete
Event), and Agent Based methods within one modeling language
and one model development environmentis–the leading provider
of dynamic simulation tools, technologies and consulting
services for business applications. The language of AnyLogic
has unmatched flexibility enabling modelers to capture the
complexity of business, economy and social systems at any level
of detail to gain deeper insight into interdependent processes
inside and around an organization.
Artelys 47
Artelys is a global provider of decision-
support solutions through numerical
optimization and analytics technologies,
with offices in France, United States, Canada and UK. The
organization is particularly active in the energy & environment,
logistics & transportation, telecommunications, finance and
defense sectors with half of their clients coming from the top
French stock market index (CAC 40). Artelys offers a superior
level of expertise to help governments and commercial
entities with highly qualified consultants. The company also
develops and supports a comprehensive portfolio of efficient
and robust optimization tools such as Artelys Kalis, FICO
Xpress Optimization suite, Knitro and AMPL. In addition,
many of our customers are professional who use the Artelys
Crystal suite, a set of user-friendly software dedicated to the
optimization of energy and transportation systems. Artelys
offers comprehensive and flexible solutions that range from
functional analysis and organizational architecture design to
implementation of solutions and operational tools.
Monday, November 14, 8:45–9:30am
Technology Tutorial: Solving Large Least-Squares Models with
the Artelys Knitro Nonlinear Optimization Solver. Presenting
Author: Richard Waltz, Senior Scientist, Artelys Corp, richard.
Artelys Knitro is the premier solver for
nonlinear optimization problems. This software demonstration
will highlight the latest Knitro developments, including a new
specialized API, as well as enhanced algorithms, for large-scale
nonlinear least-squares models. We will demonstrate how to
solve least-squares models using Knitro through a variety of
interfaces such as R, MATLAB and C/C++, and also provide some
benchmarking results. In addition, we will summarize some of the
other recent developments in Knitro.
Bayesia, USA 33
Bayesian Networks & BayesiaLab:
Artificial Intelligence for Research,
Analytics, and Reasoning. The objective
of this workshop is to show that “Artificial Intelligence” should
not be perceived as a quasi-magic technology that is mostly
incomprehensible to normal mortals. We want to illustrate
how scientists in any field of study—rather than only computer
scientists—can employ AI to explore complex problems. For
this purpose, we present Bayesian networks as the framework
and BayesiaLab as the software platform. In this context,
we demonstrate BayesiaLab’s supervised and unsupervised
machine learning algorithms for knowledge discovery in high-
Exhibit Listings & Technology Tutorials
All Technology Tutorials will take place in the Music City Center, 5th Avenue Lobby.