The 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting will be held at the Music City Center and Omni Nashville Hotel in downtown Nashville, TN on November 13-16, with pre-conference events starting on Saturday, November 12. SAS will be a major participant in this conference. Over two dozen people from SAS will attend, with many making presentations. SAS/OR, the SAS Global Academic Program, and JMP will again have adjacent exhibit space at the conference--look for us in booths 1-3. Each group will present a pre-conference Technology Workshop and a Software Tutorial.
[Location Abbreviations: MCC=Music City Center; OHN=Omni Hotel Nashville]
Technology Workshops on Saturday, November 12:
- SAS Global Academic Program: "SAS University Edition," 9:00-11:30am, MCC 201A
- JMP: "JMP 13 Pro," 12:00-2:30pm, MCC 202A
- SAS/OR: "Building and Solving Business Problems with SAS Analytics and OPTMODEL," 3:00-5:30pm, MCC 201A
Software Tutorials on Tuesday, November 15 (individual presentation time indicated):
- SAS Global Academic Program: "Analysis of a Presidential Debate Using SAS Text Analytics," Andre de Waal (in track TA94, 8:45-9:30am, MCC 5th Avenue Lobby)
- SAS/OR: "Building and Solving Optimization Models with SAS," Ed Hughes, Rob Pratt (in track TB94, 11:00-11:45am, MCC 5th Avenue Lobby)
- JMP: "Data Analysis and Discovery with JMP 13 Pro," Mia Stephens (in track TB94, 11:45am-12:30pm, MCC 5th Avenue Lobby)
Other SAS-related talks (session time indicated):
Sunday, November 13:
- "Identifying Shifting Production Bottlenecks Using Clearing Functions," Baris Kacar, Lars Moench (University of Hagen), Reha Uzsoy (North Carolina State University) (in track SA86, 8:00-9:30am, OHN Gibson Board Room)
- "The Use of Simulation for Evaluating Forecast Models," Sanjeewa Naranpanawe (in track SC33, 1:30-3:00pm, MCC 203B)
- "Unlocking Your 80%: Unearthing New Insights with Text Analytics," Christina Engelhardt (in track SD49, 4:30-6:00pm, MCC 211)
Monday, November 14:
- "Panel Session: IoT-enabled Data Analytics: Opportunities, Challenges and Applications," including Gul Ege (in track MA68, 8:00-9:30am, OHN Mockingbird 4)
Tuesday, November 15:
- "SAS/OR Value Beyond the Model," Leo Lopes (session chair) (in track TA19, 8:00-9:30am, MCC 106B)
- "Estimating Clearing Functions for Production Resources Using Simulation Optimization," Reha Uzsoy (North Carolina State University), Baris Kacar (in track TA67, 8:00-9:30am, OHN Mockingbird 3)
- "Strategies for Maintaining Sparse Dual Solutions in Large-scale Nonlinear SVM," Joshua Griffin, Alireza Yektamaram (in track TB06, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 102A)
- "A Hessian Free Method with Warm-starts for Deep Learning Problems," Wenwen Zhou, Joshua Griffin (in track TB06, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 102A)
- "An Accelerated Power Method for the Best Rank-1 Approximation to a Matrix," Jun Liu, Ruiwen Zhang, Yan Xu (session chair) (in track TB06, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 102A)
- "Local Search Optimization for Hyper-parameter Tuning," Yan Xu (in track TB06, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 102A)
Wednesday, November 16:
- "The SAS MILP Solver: Current Status and Future Developments," Philipp Christophel (in track WB13, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 104C)
- "Single-resource Capacity Control in the Presence of Cancellations, No-shows and Overbooking," Jason Chen (in track WB42, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 207D)
- "Pricing and Revenue Management of Function Space in Hotels," Altan Gulcu, Xiaodong Yao (session chair) (in track WB42, 11:00am-12:30pm, MCC 207D)
- "Visual Statistics--SAS," Dursun Delen (Oklahoma State University) (in track WD49, 2:45-4:15pm, MCC 211)
- "P-center and P-dispersion Problems: A Bi-criteria Analysis," Golbarg Tutunchi, Yahya Fathi (North Carolina State University) (in track WE82, 4:30-6:00pm, OHN Broadway G)
If you will be in Nashville for the conference, we'd love to see you at our workshops, in the exhibit hall, and at our tutorials. Please consider adding some of these great SAS-related talks to your itinerary!
