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the Excel add-ins and the book, and testimonials from
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included the names of the writers, but where possible
we give their locations and professions. In some cases
entries have been edited for spelling and punctuation.
We are always glad to receive mail with positive comments,
suggestions or error reports. The add-ins have been
corrected several times to respond to user comments.
The Errata page includes
all corrections we have received for the book.
8/27/04: Please add me to your email list, and thanks
for some many useful resources! ... Well, I just bought
your book online... the clincher was that you gave
out the
password
to access the vba
in your add-ins.
8/21/04: I am a graduate student for MD of Management
School of Tian Jin University of China. I find your
website by Google. And then I download many add-ins
from your website. They really do me very much in OR
and OM/IE. Before this it is difficult to study OR
by computer for me, for
many of us. Maybe I am the first one who use your excel
add-in in my school .I will try my best to introduce
your website
to my colleagues as many as possible. I should say "thank
you very much" to you
and your website.
8/11/04: I'm a MBA student from Wharton working on
a class project for eBay on creating a markov model
of site. I came across your excel plug in on the
web and I am extremely pleased with what I'm able to
do
with it. It is simply amazing.
7/21/04: An Engineer from Dallas: I just wanted to
say thank you for all the work you have done with your
add-ins
and
your
site.
You have
single-handedly made me want to pursue my PHD in ORM
.I use your add-ins constantly in my work and make
sure
my colleagues know about them. On any new computer
installation I have it is one of the first enhancements
of a base system I perform.
7/16/04: 21,000 visits to the main page since 7/22/03.
7/12/04: From Portugal: Congratulations for your excellent
site and for the information you are supplying free
of charge.
7/7/04: Karel de Grote-Hogeschool vzw, Antwerpen, BE:
Just thought I'd let you know: I tried the addins out
in Office 2003 (Windows Xp) and they work perfectly.
Specifically I ran Forecasting, Inventory and Materials
Requirement Planning.
From a book review in Interfaces,
Vol. 34, No. 3, May-June 2004.
Reviewed by John W. Fowler
Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State
University
"I think this book is extremely well done and the
supplementary materials do a great job of complementing
(not repeating) the physical text. Having taught undergraduate
and €rst-year graduate industrial-engineering students
as well as MBA students, I think this book and the supplementary
materials will meet the needs of the intended audiences.
... The separation of models and methods makes the book
versatile and makes it a great reference text because
one often needs help in formulating a problem or in
solving it but does not want to have to sift through
material that mixes the two.
6/19/04: Student from Denver, CO: First off, I would
like to say that I've found your book to be very student
friendly. I'm a grad student at the University of Denver
and I'm working on this course while living in Alabama.
The book is my main source of information. Because of
that, I'm really trying to understand the examples and
explanations. A list of corrections was included that
have been incorporated into the Errata.
6/2/04: Hi, I'm a teacher from the UNAM, Mexico. I
love your site and I will show it to my students.
5/18/04: Professor from Baku / AZERBAIJAN: The site
(ORMM) itself and the facilities it provides are invaluable.
I’ve been using your add-ins for a while for teaching
and for some problems I need to solve, and I really
appreciate your great effort to create these wonderful
add-ins. It is doubtlessly a virtuous thing that you
share them with us. Thank you for your help.
5/11/04: I was looking a way for improve the macros
that I've in XL (looking to convert to an add-
in) and I found your web page. I found the "components"
file (from Do-it-Yourself) VERY useful.
Your website is very complete and really nice presented.
From a book review in IIE Trans. Operations
Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 9, 2003.
Reviewed by David Goldsman, School of Industrial and
Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
"Every once in a while, a clever text comes along
that breathes a nice dose of fresh air into the mature
field of Operations Research (OR). The Jensen and Bard
book is one such welcome example." ... "The
web site is impressive, both for its content and ease
of navigation." ... "I feel that the book
is extremely well written, interesting, and unique among
OR texts; it certainly approaches the topic areas from
a new perspective. This is an excellent text that I
believe professors and students will enjoy and gain
a lot from its use."
From a Spanish company that work
in Data Mining
3/12/04: We developed a model based on Markov Chains
for a bank company and your Add-ins for Excel have been
very useful.
From a professor in Belgium
3/10/04: The MRP-add-in works perfectly.
2/4/04: Once again, your optimization software is amazing
friendly and very accurate. Congratulations.
2/3/04: Paul, I'm a new visitor to your site (and found
it quite interesting).
From the Netherlands
1/20/04: Thanks for your effort! I have been looking
for a Bayes add-in for Excel for 2 months and wasn't
able to find your site. Yesterday, by luck, I browsed
Google-pictures for "bayes" and came across
your site.
From a professor of applied statistics in Caracas Venezuela
1/9/04: Hello, let me congratulate you for you exceptional
material add ins
From a professor in United Kingdom
1/6/04: This is a wonderful facility you have given
here. My students will find these add-ins very very
useful. I am grateful to you for this.
12/13/03: Nice presentation and organization!
Researcher in the Faculty of Agriculture, University
of Ankara, Turkey
12/12/03: I really thank you for your very useful web
pages. I am studying on the optimization of irrigation
networks with minimum spanning tree, out of kilter and
shortest path methods. Especially open channel networks.
From a former student working for a bank in Mexico
12/1/03: I remember you use to have great efficient
Microsoft Excel Solver Add-Ins, and I really need to
get more familiarized. This is because I am working
for a Bank down here who wants to optimize their cycle
time.
11/25/03: I just found your page and it looks really
great to me. The topic, that I am interested in most,
is production planning.
Corporate Finance
11/4/03: I found your web site most interesting and
would most definitely like to be added to your mailing
list. I have been using VBA for some time now but would
like to become a bit more sophisticated in terms of
usage. I believe that your web site will be ideal for
me to achieve this.
Lecturer from Thailand
10/28/03: I think your provided addins would be of great
benefits to my students, especially when the sensitivity
and detailed report are available.
Visiting fellow at the University of Calgary
10/27/03: My home University is University of Lagos,
Dept of Computer Science. I came across your material
on the web and I was impressed and interested in your
work.
10/25/03: I would like to say thank you for the add
ins which you have provided on your web site which have
been of great help to my work.
Hotel Consultant from South Africa
10/21/03: May I begin by thanking you for the wonderful
and edifying content of your web site. My company has
been asked to add forecasting capabilities to a software
product of ours, and the forecast.xla spreadsheet and
your site have gone a great distance towards making
this bearable for myself and my nerds, none of whom
are exactly statisticians.
From a professor in Belgium
10/14/03: I am teaching “production management”
in engineering classes (30 students each year). You
have a marvelous site.
10/14/03: I am a student at Bandung Institute of Technology
in Industrial Engineering Department. I am very interested
about your creation especially in making add-ins.
Professor from Hong Kong
10/9/03: I have come across your new book on Operations
Research: Models and Methods. I have also read your
older book on Network Flow Programming and have visited
your web site. on the integer programming and network
programming classes. I really think they are excellent.
9/29/03: I run these ideas by you because I have enjoyed
looking at your excellent Excel Addins.
Engineer from a company in the Netherlands
9/25/03: Searching on the Internet for optimization
methods in Excel I found your web site. www.ormm.net.
My compliments for the way you translate the theory
to practice.
Programmer from California, USA
9/9/03: I am impressed with your forecast add-in and
I was wondering how much you would charge to allow me
to get the password to your .xla file so that I can
convert the forecasting formulas to use with a Visual
Basic 6 forecasting program for my company. Response:
No charge.
9/1/03: I'm currently doing production planning for
my master project. Thanks for the Excel addins.
Engineer from Virginia, USA
8/28/03: I was browsing your web site. and found it
to be very interesting.
Manufacturing Designer from Virginia, USA
8/1/03: One of our engineers was looking for Excel plug-ins
and ran across your posted plug-ins. Question came up
whether we could use them for commercial applications
or not. Thanks for posting the plug-ins. Response:
They can be used.
EE-student Koethen (Germany)
6/17/03: Now I work on my seminar paper, that deals
on topic in image processing. By solving my specific
problem I came in contact with constrained optimization
for my first time. So I found your web-site and your
great effort in teaching optimization for engineers.
Student from France
6/4/03: I am a student interested in mathematical programming
and I thank you for your web pages on the subject.
Student of Computer Science degree at Medellín,
Colombia
5/14/03: I have been working on several projects in
the Quantitative Methods and Simulation fields on the
past, which have led me into finding lots of useful
information and research all around the world. But it
was only today when I found your excellent UTA web site.
about Operations Research. I browsed through a lot of
your Addins, and got amazed by the high functionality
and excellent modeling of them.This letter is just to
say a big "Thanks!" for all the effort, time
and dedication that you put into your work. It really
is encouraging to see all of what you have accomplished.
Research assistant in a university in Turkey
5/2/03: The subject of my research thesis is about queuing
systems. I search all things about it. There is some
PC programs to solve queuing problems, but I realize
that they are not sufficient. I met your web site by
coincidence, I admit I am really affected.
4/13/03: I am a graduate student of National University
of Singapore. Your courseware and lecture notes are
well known.
Software Engineer in Bombay, India
4/7/03: We find the content provided by your web-site
(Network Flow Programming) very useful and this letter
is in regards to using the content of your web-site
for educational purposes. We thank you for creating
such a useful web-site. Response: You
are welcome to use them for educational purposes.
4/3/03: I am an outreach student from Puerto Rico at
Auburn University (Alabama). I am enrolled in
the Industrial and Systems Engineering masters program.
I am interested in joining the club. You have done a
great job with this site!!
2/22/03: I just found your site today and am VERY impressed.
Thank you for providing us with this.
1/8/03: Thanks for sharing the add-ins. They
work great! We would like to create a dedicated MINIF
and MAXIF add-in, since your DECISION.XLA is rather
large, at 500k+. Unfortunately, it is password
protected, preventing us for trimming out the other
code. Would you be willing to share the password
so we can create the simplified versions of MINIF and
MAXIF? Response: The password is given
on the web site
Professor from Univ. of Economics, Prague
1/6/03: I have to thank you for the splendid book you've
written and for the web site. It is so powerfully tool
to learn the operations research that it is even hard
to believe it!
Comments from 2002
I love the add-ins you have made available on the web.
I am a Mathematica user who enjoys reading Bobby Treats
posts to MathGroup (a sort of online forum for hard-core
Mathematica users). After following one of his hyperlinks
to your Excel page, I quickly became absorbed in the
material. I've never spent any real time with Excel
until now and I am enjoying your software thoroughly.
Thanks so much for making the Excel Addin's available.
And especially thanks for the source and the Flash Animations.
I am just beginning with Excel and Flash Programming
and it is wonderful to see all that can be done.
Professor University of Minnesota
You two have done a great job! The web site and examples
was a real epiphany: I had no idea that this subject
was so fascinating.
I am a student studying at the University of Hull and
am taking on a final year project with the title 'Using
queuing theory study the impact of scheduling algorithms
on job throughput in a multitasking environment'. Basically,
I have found your queue.xla add-in very useful in my
research.
Professor from Malaysia: I am teaching a course in
OR and find your book an excellent teaching aid.
I'm pursuing a Doctorate in engineering management
at SMU part-time. You web site. has been very helpful
and informative for operations know-how. I can't get
over the fact it's so open. Thank you.
Just a quick "Thank You" for making all the
materials (educational, Excel add-ins, links, etc) available
on your web site. I'm sure it will be very useful to
me and many others.
I work at the University of Economics and I have lecture
of Operations Research where I use your programs (Excel).
However, not all the students understand the given instructions
since they have problems with English. Therefore, I
would like to translate them (just the instructions)
into Polish.
This past summer I taught a small graduate course in
Supply Chain Models and Optimization and used some of
your addins extensively. I thought you might like to
know that they were very well received. We used mainly
the LP/IP, Distribution and Network Addins, and the
students thought they were very useful and easy to use.
School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University:
I would be very interested in a copy of your book -
I have used your add-ins and have found your site extremely
helpful.
I came across your web site by a search from Goggle
on "methods of operation research". I really
enjoyed browsing through all your pages. I like the
many explained examples.
As professor of Operations Research, I feel very interested
about your book OR Models and Methods. This book is
focused in something I have been talking about with
all my students and other professor: that OR teaching
should focus in the use of software, specially the Excel.