News - Dash Optimization Exhibits and Presents at INFORMS Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh November 4th - 8th, 2006

Dash Optimization will be exhibiting and presenting 5 sessions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to be held on November 4-8, 2006 in Pittsburgh, PA

Dash Optimization will be at Booth #308 in the Exhibit Hall on November 5-8, 2006 and will be presenting the following sessions:

Pre-Conference Workshop

The Pre-Conference workshop entitled "Fast Track Optimization Modeling using Xpress-MP" will be held on Saturday, November 4, 2006, 8:30am – 12:30pm Room 316.

The talks scheduled for the Pre-Conference Workshop are as follows:

• Introduction - Dawn Mazzanti, Dash Optimization
• Xpress-Optimizer Recent Developments - Richard Laundy, Dash Optimization
• Using Parallel Xpress-MP to solve Mixed Integer Programming Problems - Alkis Vazacopoulos, Dash Optimization
• Fine Tuning Xpress-MP for Mixed Integer Programming Problems - Gabriel Tavares
• Delivering Value through Planning Applications: Case Studies - Rich Guy, Profit Point
• Mmjobs: Mosel Module for Multiple Models and Parallel Solving - Hernan Wurgaft, Dash Optimization
• Stochastic Optimization in Xpress-SP - Nitin Verma, Dash Optimization

To reserve a seat you can go to the INFORMS registration page or send an email with the subject "INFORMS Pre-Conference Reservation" to .

Software Tutorial

Dash Optimization will be holding a software tutorial on Sunday November 5, 2006, 10:00 - 10:45 am.

Presentations

• Nitin Verma, Senior Consultant:
  Building Solutions for 2-Stage and Multi-Stage Stochastic Linear Programs Using Xpress-MP (Sunday, November 5, 2006, 8:00 - 9:30am in the Optimization/Stochastic Programming Cluster).
  
  
• Gabriel Tavares, Senior Consultant:
  Clustering by QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) (Sunday November 5, 2006, 4:30 - 6:00pm in the Data Mining Cluster).
  
  
• Alkis Vazacopoulos, Director:
  Mathematical Programming in Data Mining Machine Learning, Chair (Sunday November 5, 2006, 4:30pm - 6:00pm in the Data Mining Cluster)
  
  
• Alkis Vazacopoulos, Director:
  State-of-the-Optimization Using Xpress-MP v2006 (Monday, November 6, 2006, 10:00 - 11:30am in the INFORMS Computing Society Cluster).

To register for the conference please visit: http://meetings.informs.org/Pittsburgh06/registration.html.

If you will be in the Pittsburgh, PA area and wish to visit our booth or if you have any questions please email: