Sponsors

Matheon develops mathematics for key technologies and supports partners in industry, economy and science. We also cooperate with schools and the general public. Founded in 2002, Matheon is a joint initiative of the three Berlin universities (FU, HU and TU) and the mathematical research centers (WIAS and ZIB).

The Zuse Institute Berlin is a research institute for applied mathematics and computer science. Our research and service is driven by the principle "Fast Algorithms - Fast Computers": We provide solutions for complex problems in science, engineering, environment, and society - solutions that often require innovative approaches.

In close cooperation with partners from science, economy, and society we develop mathematical models and efficient algorithms. For the users of our high-performance computers we provide specialized consulting services.

The Association for Constraint Programming aims at promoting constraint programming in every aspect of the scientific world, by encouraging its theoretical and practical developments, its teaching in the academic institutions, its adoption in the industrial world, and its use in the application fields.

The ACP is a non-profit association, which uses the profit of the organized events to support future events or activities. At any given time, members of the ACP are all attendees of a CP conference in the past five years, and all members of the program committee of the current CP conference.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

AIMMS is an advanced development environment for building optimization based operations research applications and advanced planning systems. AIMMS distinguishes itself from other optimization software by a number of advanced modeling concepts, as well as a full graphical user interface both for developers and end-users. Commercial and open source solvers are available for all major mathematical programming types (CP will become available in 2011). Even uncertainty can be modeled through the concepts of Scenario Analysis, Stochastic Programming and Robust Optimization.

Mastering AIMMS is straightforward since the mathematical modeling language concepts will be intuitive to Operations Research professionals and the point-and-click graphical interface is easy to use. The AIMMS optimization software comes with comprehensive documentation, available electronically and in book form.

AIMMS is free for Academic use (www.aimms.com/edu).

Gurobi Optimization is in the business of providing robust, high-performance optimization software based upon the latest technologies for linear, quadratic and mixed-integer programming.

The computational progress in linear, quadratic and mixed integer programming over the last twenty years has been nothing short of remarkable, enabling business, scientific and other applications that literally would have been unapproachable just a few short years ago. The Gurobi founders have been at the forefront of these developments.

The Gurobi suite of optimization products represent completely new implementations, redesigned from the ground up to fully exploit the latest mathematical and “engineering” improvements in the underlying methodologies, as well as developments in modern desktop computing hardware and programming environments; moreover, the Gurobi team is committed not just to providing the best technology now available, but to continuing to push forward the frontier of optimization solution capability.

FICO (NYSE:FICO) is a leader in Decision Management, transforming business by making every decision count. FICO uses predictive analytics to help businesses automate, improve and connect decisions across organizational silos and customer lifecycles. Clients in 80 countries work with FICO to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Most leading banks and credit card issuers rely on FICO solutions, as do insurers, retailers, health care organizations and other companies. FICO works with more than 5,000 businesses worldwide, and our technology serves thousands more through our partnerships. FICO serves global markets through offices in 12 countries. The German office opened in Munich in April 2010. (www.fico.com)

The Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), founded in 2008 with support from an Expeditions in Computing grant from the National Science Foundation (USA), advances research in the emerging field of Computational Sustainability. The vision of the institute is that computer scientists can - and should - play a key role in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness in the way we manage and allocate our natural resources, while enriching and transforming Computer Science and related fields. The institute is a joint venture involving scientists from Cornell University, Bowdoin College, the Conservation Fund, Howard University, Oregon State University, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

IVU Traffic Technologies AG has been working for more than thirty years with some 300 software engineers to ensure that transport in the world's major cities operates reliably and on time. People and vehicles in expanding cities are continually on the move - a logistical challenge which calls for intelligent and reliable software systems. The standardised software products of the IVU.suite and tailor-made IT solutions are used to plan, optimise and control the scheduling of vehicle fleets and personnel. Other systems support the choice of branch locations or ensure that election results are determined correctly. IVU. Systems for vibrant cities.

The MOSEK Optimization Software is designed to solve large-scale mathematical optimization problems. MOSEK provides specialized solvers for linear programming, mixed integer programming and many types of nonlinear convex optimization problems.

With 75 years' experience in the gas business, we operate one of the most efficient gas transmission systems in Europe. Today this pipeline network covers some 12,000 km. It is well developed and being continually extended. An infrastructure which is tailor-made to our customers' requirements and guarantees them a transportation service they can really rely on.

NICTA (National ICT Australia) is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. We are an independent company in the business of research, commercialisation and research training. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research.

For over 75 years, we have been helping aviation professionals worldwide reach their destinations safely and efficiently. Today, we build on those roots by offering an ever-expanding array of innovative informational products, services, and software to a growing lineup of air, sea and land transportation partners. For companies such as American Airlines, Lufthansa, Delta, Qantas, British Airways and Deutsche Bahn, we develop resource optimization solutions like flight-planning and complete crew and fleet management systems.

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people.

atesio GmbH is highly specialized in planning and optimization telecommunications networks based on mathematical modeling and optimization. atesio develops custom-made software for the telecommunications industry that allows performing large-scale and/or complex analysis and planning tasks. atesio’s consulting activities range from operational 2G and 3G network optimization over large-scale network design to strategic decision support by means of techno-economical analyses of alternative network evolution paths.

AMPL Optimization develops and supports the AMPL modeling language, an especially powerful and natural tool for developing and deploying the complex optimization problems that arise in diverse business and scientific applications. AMPL is notable for its convenient support of extended problem formulations and advanced algorithmic features. It incorporates an interface to spreadsheet and database files and an integrated scripting language for building iterative optimization schemes. AMPL Optimization also supports and distributes a variety of large-scale solvers for diverse problem types.

ProCom GmbH has been providing solutions for planning tasks in the energy industry since 1995. More than 75 employees, thereof over 50 specialists in the planning of energy generation and energy trade, develop software solutions on the basis of the BoFiT IT platform, with which business processes of the energy industry become more transparent and more effectively organised. Clients of the energy industry use ProCom solutions in order to make the right decisions quickly, confidently and reliably. More than 70 solutions are being used by renowned European clients and even the majority of the combined heat and power in Germany is planned with BoFiT today. ProCom pursues a distinct growth and internationalisation strategy.