Management Science Links

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      Professional Organizations

      • INFORMS Online is the online information service of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
      • DSI The Decision Sciences Institute is a nonprofit professional organization that provides an international forum for presenting and sharing research in the study of decision processes across disciplines.
      • Operational Research Society Founded over 40 years ago in succession to the Operational Research Club which was set up in 1947, the Operational Research Society (ORS) is the world's oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research (OR) profession, and the largest outside the USA, with 3000 members world wide.

      Software Companies

      • Maximal Software, Inc. -"The cutting edge of optimization software"
      • Compass Modeling Solutions - a provider of mathematical programming software tools, technical support and quantitative management consulting
      • Dash Associates "write, sell, and consult with high performance modelling and optimisation software."
      • Frontline Systems - the makers of the Solver built into Excel.
      • CPLEX Optimization, Inc. - "the leading supplier of large scale optimization algorithms."
      • Logical Decisions: decision support software for evaluating choices
      • Lindo Systems, Inc. - "Setting the standard in optimization software for over 16 years", "our products are in use at over half the Fortune 500--including 23 of the top 25"
      • TreeAge Software, Inc. - "produces the world's best decision tree analysis software for both Microsoft® Windowsª and Macintosh®"
      • Banxia Software - "Decision Support Software for Professionals"
      • GAMS Development Corporation - developers of The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) and related software.
      • InfoHarvest - decision analysis and presentation software
      • Silicon Graphics - Solutions for Operations Research and Business Decision Analytics

      General Links

      • The Optimization Technology Center "The Center's mission is to make potential users in industry, government, and academia aware of how optimization techniques can aid their work, and to make the latest techniques widely available. Our products are designed to help at each stage of problem solving, from modeling real-world applications through solving the mathematical problem to interpreting the results."
      • WORMS The World-wide Web for Operations Research and Management Science
      • OpsResearch.com - a site with Java classesfor use in building Operations Research software and links to other OR sights.

      Examples of the use of Management Science

      • Examples from Dash Associates (Makers of XPRESS-MP software)
      • Lindo Lines - this newsletter often times has examples of applications using Lindo.
      • Practice On-line The Electronic Complement to INTERFACES (POL) is a practice-oriented electronic information service of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) jointly sponsored by INTERFACES, the Council on the Practice of Management Science (CPMS), and the INFORMS Roundtable.

      Other people's links pages

      • Maximal software's ORlinks page <--check it out!
      • Compass Modeling Solutions Related Web Pages
      • Michael Trick's Operations Research Page - links to lots of OR/MS sites.
      • Hotlinks of Info Harvest - Decision Analysis