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<br /> SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL ISSUE<br /> April 2017<br /> Volume 44 • Number 2<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Worldly problems,<br /> O.R. solutions<br /> •<br /> Analytics everywhere<br /> • Collaborative shipping<br /> • IFORS & its conference<br /> • People flow in buildings<br /> • Human trafficking analysis<br /> • Agriculture, analytics & IoT<br /> Ready for more robust analytics<br /> and optimization software?<br /> Boost productivity and collaboration with a technology that’s easy to<br /> customize, update and deploy. Find out how JBS, a global leader in beef,<br /> lamb and poultry processing, increased their margin by 25% by trading<br /> spreadsheets for AIMMS-based Prescriptive Analytics applications.<br /> “<br /> Thanks to the flexibility of AIMMS, the development of new optimization modules can<br /> be done with the agility comparable to the dynamism of our company and its market.”<br /> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=1"> SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL ISSUE April 2017 Volum</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=2"> Ready for more robust analytics and optimizat</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=4"> Contents April 2017 | Volume 44, No. 2 | orms</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=5"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimiza</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=6"> April 2017 | Volume 44, No. 2 | ormstoday.inf</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=7"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and </a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=9"> WHAT’S NEW WITH AMPL? Visit AMPL.com </a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=10"> President’s Desk Brian Denton INFORMS Presi</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=11"> Quan ec Turn your optimization model into an i</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=12"> INFORMS in the News Compiled by Ashley Kilg</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=13"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=14"> Issues in Education By Kevin Huston and Liz</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=15"> students dubbed the problem “The Beast.” It is in</a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=16"> PuzzlORJohn Toczek puzzlor@gmail.com Payload </a> <a title="ORMS Today, April 2017 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c17df179?page=17"> Stop compromising. 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