Academic Users of Optimization Start Here

Welcome Professors, Grad Students, Instructors

Frontline Systems has been a strong supporter of the academic community for many years, in teaching and research in several fields:

• Management science, operations research, and decision science
• Quantitative finance and quantitative approaches in marketing
• Many branches of engineering, as well as applied mathematics

Click below to learn about our opportunities for academic users:

• Textbooks using our Premium Solver for Education
• Premium Solver for Education Downloads for Your Course
• Academic discounts for teaching and research use
• Consultant program if you consult for outside clients
• Professional societies with whom we work

Professional Societies

Frontline Systems has worked with several professional societies by publishing journal articles, sponsoring journals such as the INFORMS Journal on Computing, exhibiting at professional society meetings and conferences, and advertising in membership publications.

If you're a user of optimization methods from industry or government and you're not familiar with these professional societies, you may find that you can gain new skills and learn from experts by joining these societies, attending their conferences or reading their publications:

• INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• DSI - Decision Sciences Institute
• IFORS - International Federation of Operational Research Societies

Ask us for reprints of our journal article "Design and Use of the Microsoft Excel Solver" by Daniel Fylstra, Leon Lasdon, John Watson and Alan Waren in INFORMS INTERFACES 28: 5 September-October 1998 (pp. 29-55), or click here to read the article on the Website of our colleague Prof. Leon Lasdon.

Ask us for reprints of our journal article "Interval Methods for Accelerated Global Search in the Microsoft Excel Solver" by Ivo Nenov and Daniel Fylstra in RELIABLE COMPUTING 9: 2 April 2003 (pp. 143-159), or click here to read the article in PDF format.

Finance professionals:  Ask us about Daniel Fylstra's new article "Introducing Convex and Conic Optimization for the Quantitative Finance Professional," appearing in the March 2005 issue of Wilmott Magazine (pp. 18-22), or click here to read the article in PDF format.

Our Premium Solver Platform works with existing Excel Solver models, solves much larger problems up to hundreds of times faster, and solves new kinds of problems via Evolutionary Solver. Solver Engines plug into the Premium Solver Platform.

Solver Platform SDK makes it easy to solve any type or size of optimization problem in your Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java, or MATLAB program. And it's easy to deploy your application with our flexible licensing for software vendors and corporate developers.

Risk Solver is the easiest, fastest, most powerful tool you can buy for risk analysis of your Excel models, using Monte Carlo simulation. Evaluate thousands of scenarios in seconds, and see instantly updated charts and statistics, each time you ask "what if".

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