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<br /> STAT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE SURVEY: joys, perils & trends<br /> February 2017<br /> Volume 44 • Number 1<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Inside: History lessons<br /> Optimal search methods<br /> In search of moving targets<br /> The evolution of INFORMS<br /> 65 years of problems, solutions<br /> Ada Lovelace: poetical<br /> scientist<br /> The first female computer<br /> scientist<br /> Sports analytics<br /> explosion<br /> Opportunities for research: dunking deeper into team sports<br /> Shell unlocks the benefits of optimization<br /> with AIMMS<br /> The team at Shell Global Solutions<br /> has driven optimization solutions with<br /> AIMMS since 2003.<br /> “GMOS has helped us to optimize our<br /> supply chain and select the feedstock with<br /> the best commercial terms at any given time.<br /> The folks in the petrochemicals business<br /> really trust this tool to help them make<br /> the right decisions.” Jim Nastoff, Strategy<br /> M<a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=1"> STAT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE SURVEY: joys, perils & tre</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=2"> Shell unlocks the benefits of optimization with A</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=4"> Contents February 2017 | Volume 44, No. 1 | o</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=5"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimiza</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=6"> February 2017 | Volume 44, No. 1 | ormstoday.</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=7"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and </a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=9"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=10"> President’s Desk Brian Denton INFORMS Presi</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=11"> Stop compromising. With FICO's advanced analytic</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=12"> INFORMS in the News Compiled by Ashley Kilg</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=13"> What's Your StORy? Aurélie Thiele Associate P</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=14"> Issues in Education By David Hunt and Scott</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=15"> Step 3: Refine the Code Finally, think about</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=16"> INFORMS Initiatives Edelman Award, IAAA, Wagne</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=17"> DATA ANALYTICA CEREBRUM understanding the un</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=18"> PuzzlORJohn Toczek puzzlor@gmail.com Any port</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=19"> What's Your StORy? Christian Blanco PhD Candi</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=20"> Search & research Metron software detects a mo</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=21"> Upon ascertaining that Stone had a passport,</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=22"> Search Theory this computer planning system for</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=23"> for the search for the S.S. Central America, a sh</a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=24"> The evolution of INFORMS ORSA + TIMS = INFORMS: </a> <a title="ORMS Today, February 2017 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/817097eb?page=25"> new society that catered to their needs. 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