Sponsorship and Exhibition

AMPL is a powerful modeling language and system for working with the large, complex optimization models that arise in diverse scientific, engineering, and economic applications. AMPL's flexible handling of sets and indexing lets you formulate complex models the way you think of them, while processing large problems efficiently; its general algebraic and logical expressions provide direct support for the advanced algorithmic alternatives that you need to find good solutions quickly and reliably. AMPL's interactive development environment helps you get started fast, while its integrated scripting language and application programming interfaces for popular programming languages let you automate analyses, build iterative optimization schemes, read and write database and spreadsheet files, and deploy completed applications. AMPL works with over 30 powerful optimization engines including all of the most widely used large-scale solvers   

Elsevier is a leading publisher in the Operations Research and Decision Sciences field, with 20 high-quality peer-reviewed journals, includingEuropean Journal of Operational Research and Operations Research Perspectives. Elsevier’s Operations Research and Decision Sciences journals occupy 12 of the Top 20 positions in the Operations Research & Management Science category of Thomson Reuters’ Social Sciences Citation Index. For more information visit: http://www.elsevier.com/social-sciences/decision-sciences

JMP is a business unit of SAS that produces interactive software for desktop statistical discovery. Pronounced "JUMP", it's name suggests a leap in interactivity, a move in a new direction. John Sall, SAS Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, created this dynamic software and remains its Chief Architect and leader of the JMP division. Introduced in 1989 with scientists and engineers in mind, JMP has grown into a family of statistical discovery products used worldwide in almost every industry. From it's beginnings, JMP software has empowered its users by enabling interactive analytics on the desktop.

JMP products continue to compliment - and are often deployed with - SAS solutions that provide server-based business intelligence. The SAS commitment to accuracy, value and quality is evident in every JMP software release. Training, technical support, licensing and distribution are provided to JMP users the world over through SAS. Teams specializing in JMP products are located in the United States, Europe, China and Japan.

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Palisade’s risk and decision analysis solutions integrate with Microsoft Excel to bring techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation, optimization, decision trees to your desktop in a familiar environment. RISKOptimizer combines Monte Carlo simulation with the latest solving technology to optimize any spreadsheet with uncertain values. Using genetic algorithms or OptQuest, RISKOptimizer can determine the best allocation of resources, the optimal asset allocation or the most efficient schedule. Free software trials are available at www.palisade.com

Looking to publish your research? Discover Springer’s print and electronic publication services, including open access options! Get high-quality review, maximum readership and rapid distribution. Visit our booth or springer.com/authors. 

You can also browse key titles in your field and buy (e)books at discount prices. Get read. Publish with Springer.

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FICO (NYSE:FICO) is a leading provider of analytics and decision management technology. FICO delivers superior analytics solutions that drive smarter decisions. The company´s groundbreaking use of mathematics to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries and revolutionized the way risk is managed and products are marketed. FICO helps businesses automate, improve and connect decisions across organizational silos and customer lifecycles. The portfolio includes industry-leading solutions for managing credit accounts, identifying and minimizing the impact of fraud, and customizing consumer offers with pinpoint accuracy. It also comprises tools, which enable businesses to create their own decision management applications and models, as well as analytics (predictive models, optimization and portfolio analytics) and professional services. Most of the world's top banks, leading insurers, retailers, pharma businesses and government agencies rely on FICO to accelerate growth, control risk, boost profits and meet regulatory and competitive demands. Learn more at www.fico.com. FICO: Make every decision count.

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (GCMB) is the official destination marketing organisation for the city of Glasgow. As a public / private organisation established by Glasgow City Council in 2005, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau's role is to communicate Glasgow's reputation as a world-class city in which to live, work, study, invest and visit.

As custodian of the PEOPLE MAKE GLASGOW brand, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau works with numerous partners, stakeholders and businesses to position and promote Glasgow across national and international markets as one of Europe's most vibrant, dynamic and diverse cities.

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau is engaged in a wide-range of activity aimed at delivering economic and social benefits for Glasgow through leisure and business tourism. This activity comprises:

• Development and implementation of the PEOPLE MAKE GLASGOW city brand
• Strategic destination marketing communications campaigns across key target markets
• Bidding for, attracting and managing high-profile major events, conventions and exhibitions
• Responsibility for conference and event accommodation bookings
 
 

 

IFORS 2017 host city: Québec City a place to discover:
The cradle of French North America, shaped by over 400 years of history, Québec City is a charming blend of old and new, offering a wealth of natural, cultural and historic attractions along with the pleasures of city life.
Take a historical tour through the only fortified city in North America: Visit Old Québec and Place-Royale where Samuel de Champlain built his first house in 1608, the Plains of Abraham where the decisive battle between the English and French took place in 1759, as well as the famous Château Frontenac overlooking the St. Lawrence River.

Québec City is also home to the Musée de la civilisation, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec as well as the Parliament Building, where the province's National Assembly sits. Rich in history and culture, the city boasts lively streets, fine restaurants, renowned international hotels, art galleries and street entertainers.

LocalSolver www.localsolver.com is the first mathematical optimization solver combining the simplicity of use of a model-and-run solver and the power of neighborhood search techniques. LocalSolver includes an innovative math modeling language for fast prototyping and lightweight object-oriented APIs (C++, Java, .NET, Python) for full integration. Having declared your optimization model using basic mathematical operators, LocalSolver provides you with high-quality solutions in short running times. Integrating unique local search techniques, LocalSolver scales up to 10 million variables, running on standard computers. As example, LocalSolver was chosen against state-of-the-art MIP solvers to solve in minutes an all-Japan food supply chain problem involving 3 million binary decisions. As breaking novelties, LocalSolver 5.5 offers set-based modeling features allowing an intuitive and compact modeling of routing problems (TSP, VRP) as well as dramatic performance improvements. LocalSolver 5.5 also deals with black-box functions, that is, objectives or constraints whose evaluation (cheap or costly) is delegated to external codes like numerical simulators.

Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher for scholarship, research and professional learning. We are proud publisher of the journals of the OR Society, and of a growing books program in OR/MS including the new OR Essentials series. Palgrave Macmillan offers authors and readers the very best in academic content whilst also supporting the community with innovative new formats and tools.

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Used by over 70% of Fortune 50 companies to improve their performance, SIMUL8’s powerful simulation software is fast to learn and flexible enough to simulate any process.

SIMUL8 has helped deliver multi-million pound savings for organisations across the world including the NHS, Gatwick Airport and Chrysler, and is used to teach simulation in colleges from Boston to Hong Kong.

SIMUL8 Corporation continues to drive the advancement of simulation software. Our constantly evolving products and services now include cloud technology, and collaboration tools to make sharing simulations and getting the results you need quicker and more efficient than ever before.

Come to our booth to see SIMUL8 2015 in action and discover the new features that have been added to deliver powerful, intuitive software for rapid simulation development and fast results.

Taylor & Francis boasts a growing, wide-ranging, and high calibre journal portfolio publishing Operational Research and Management Science papers. Our journals are edited by some of the most prominent academics in the field and offer a variety of accommodating options for authors publishing with us. Visit our booth to browse our extensive portfolio of books and journals and talk to us about publishing your work. You can find out more through our dedicated Operational Research and Management Science hub page