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Frontline Systems has been a strong supporter of the academic community for many years, in teaching and research in several fields:
 
bulletManagement science, operations research, and decision science
bulletQuantitative finance and quantitative approaches in marketing
bulletMany branches of engineering, as well as applied mathematics

Click below to learn about our opportunities for academic users:

bulletTextbooks using our Premium Solver for Education
bulletAcademic discounts for teaching and research use
bulletConsultant program if you consult for outside clients
bulletProfessional 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:

bulletINFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
bulletSIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
bulletDSI - Decision Sciences Institute
bulletIFORS - 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 in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format from INFORMS PubsOnline.

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.

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