MABS swMATH ID: 14816 Software Authors: De Reyck, Bert; Degraeve, Zeger Description: MABS: spreadsheet-based decision support for precision marketing. We describe a decision support system developed for automatically scheduling and optimising broadcasts of advertisements to mobile phones via SMS (Short Message Service) text messaging. The system, MABS Mobile Advertising Broadcast Scheduler, is developed in Microsoft Excel with a link to Lingo, a modelling language and IP solver. It was developed for a London-based company specialized in location-sensitive precision marketing via mobile phones. The system significantly reduced the time required to schedule the broadcasts, and resulted both in increased customer response and revenues. Homepage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221705001189 Dependencies: Excel; Lingo Keywords: decision support systems; marketing; scheduling; integer programming; large scale optimisation Related Software: LINDO; Excel; LINGO Cited in: 1 Document Cited by 2 Authors 1 De Reyck, Bert 1 Degraeve, Zeger Cited in 1 Serial 1 European Journal of Operational Research Cited in 1 Field 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) Citations by Year