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Several individuals contributed material to the text or the supporting material.
Susan Baxley and Dr. David Schrader of Teradata provided special help in identifying
new TUN content for the book and arranging permissions for the same. Peter Horner,
editor of OR/MS Today, allowed us to summarize new application stories from OR/
MS Today and Analytics Magazine. We also thank INFORMS for their permission to
highlight content from Interfaces. Prof. Rick Wilson contributed some examples and
exercise questions for Chapter 9. Assistance from Natraj Ponna, Daniel Asamoah, Amir
Hassan-Zadeh, Kartik Dasika, Clara Gregory, and Amy Wallace (all of Oklahoma State
University) is gratefully acknowledged for this edition. We also acknowledge Narges
Kasiri (Ithaca College) for the write-up on system dynamics modeling and Jongswas
Chongwatpol (NIDA, Thailand) for the material on SIMIO software. For the previous
edition, we acknowledge the contributions of Dave King (JDA Software Group, Inc.) and
Jerry Wagner (University of Nebraska–Omaha). Major contributors for earlier editions
include Mike Goul (Arizona State University) and Leila A. Halawi (Bethune-Cookman
College), who provided material for the chapter on data warehousing; Christy Cheung
(Hong Kong Baptist University), who contributed to the chapter on knowledge man-
agement; Linda Lai (Macau Polytechnic University of China); Dave King (JDA Software
Group, Inc.); Lou Frenzel, an independent consultant whose books Crash Course in
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems and Understanding of Expert Systems (both
published by Howard W. Sams, New York, 1987) provided material for the early editions;
Larry Medsker (American University), who contributed substantial material on neural
networks; and Richard V. McCarthy (Quinnipiac University), who performed major revi-
sions in the seventh edition.
Previous editions of the book have also benefited greatly from the efforts of many
individuals who contributed advice and interesting material (such as problems), gave
feedback on material, or helped with class testing. These individuals are Warren Briggs
(Suffolk University), Frank DeBalough (University of Southern California), Mei-Ting
Cheung (University of Hong Kong), Alan Dennis (Indiana University), George Easton
(San Diego State University), Janet Fisher (California State University, Los Angeles),
David Friend (Pilot Software, Inc.), the late Paul Gray (Claremont Graduate School),
Mike Henry (OSU), Dustin Huntington (Exsys, Inc.), Subramanian Rama Iyer (Oklahoma
State University), Angie Jungermann (Oklahoma State University), Elena Karahanna
(The University of Georgia), Mike McAulliffe (The University of Georgia), Chad Peterson
(The University of Georgia), Neil Rabjohn (York University), Jim Ragusa (University of
Central Florida), Alan Rowe (University of Southern California), Steve Ruth (George
Mason University), Linus Schrage (University of Chicago), Antonie Stam (University of
Missouri), Ron Swift (NCR Corp.), Merril Warkentin (then at Northeastern University),
Paul Watkins (The University of Southern California), Ben Mortagy (Claremont Graduate
School of Management), Dan Walsh (Bellcore), Richard Watson (The University of
Georgia), and the many other instructors and students who have provided feedback.
Several vendors cooperated by providing development and/or demonstration
software: Expert Choice, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Nancy Clark of Exsys, Inc.
(Albuquerque, New Mexico), Jim Godsey of GroupSystems, Inc. (Broomfield, Colorado),
Raimo Hämäläinen of Helsinki University of Technology, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro of
KDNuggets.com, Logic Programming Associates (UK), Gary Lynn of NeuroDimension Inc.
(Gainesville, Florida), Palisade Software (Newfield, New York), Jerry Wagner of Planners
Lab (Omaha, Nebraska), Promised Land Technologies (New Haven, Connecticut), Salford
Systems (La Jolla, California), Sense Networks (New York, New York), Gary Miner of
StatSoft, Inc. (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Ward Systems Group, Inc. (Frederick, Maryland), Idea
Fisher Systems, Inc. (Irving, California), and Wordtech Systems (Orinda, California).

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