Pintér Consulting Services, Inc. Company Background, Products and Services Introduction Pintér Consulting Services (PCS, incorporated in Canada) has been in continuous operation since 1994. We offer quality software products and related services to a rapidly growing worldwide clientele. Our services include Systems model development Optimization algorithm development and customization Lectures, workshops, and intensive courses, in addition to full (semester-long) courses. Professional Expertise Our primary expertise is related to nonlinear systems analysis and optimization. This specifically includes the development of algorithms and software for global and local optimization. PCS and its partners have been developing optimization software products that can be applied to solve a broad range of decision problems arising in engineering, economics, and the sciences. Our flagship product, the Lipschitz Global Optimizer (LGO) suite of global and local solvers can handle system models defined by (Lipschitz-)continuous functions. The optimization model can be a complete "black box", without the need for explicit function forms, derivatives, or higher order analytical information. This key feature makes LGO (and our related software products) applicable in a large variety of contexts, including the optimization of complex models, entirely closed modules, or confidential applications developed by our clients. The solvable model size limitations essentially depend only on the available hardware/software platform, and on the practically affordable model + solver program execution time. Currently, we offer solvers to handle models with up to several thousand variables and general constraints. Customized algorithm and software development options are available, as a consulting service. For professional summary information, please see the following documents: PCS Products and Services János D. Pintér --- CV + Publications + Presentations Software Products Our products are developed and maintained in cooperation with world-class partners. The currently available software implementations - offered for compiler platforms, optimization modeling environments, and integrated scientific-technical computing systems - are listed below. All software products are available either directly from Pintér Consulting Services and/or (in certain cases, exclusively) from our developer partners. Professional, non-profit research, and educational licenses are offered - with significant discounts in the latter two cases. Further implementations are in progress; related suggestions are welcome. A summary description of PCS Products and Services. Size-limited free LGO demo software versions to use with C or C# compilers are available from PCS upon request LGO solver suite for global and local optimization, with a text I/O interface, for C/C++ and Fortran compiler platforms available from PCS LGO solver suite with a Microsoft Windows GUI, for C/C++, and Fortran compiler platforms available from PCS LGO for AIMMS users available from Paragon Decision Technology LGO for AMPL users available from PCS LGO for Excel users (with direct Excel link) available from PCS LGO for GAMS users available from the GAMS Development Corporation LGO for MPL users available from Maximal Software Global Optimization Toolbox (LGO for Maple users) available from Maplesoft LGO for MATLAB users (with direct MATLAB link) available from PCS LGO for the TOMLAB platform (for MATLAB users) available from TOMLAB Optimization MathOptimizer Professional (LGO for Mathematica users) available from PCS and Wolfram Research MathOptimizer (native global-local optimization for Mathematica users) available from PCS and Wolfram Research Our software products are used around the world by businesses, research organizations, and universities. Further Information Several peer reviews and news releases, related to our research and software development work, are available by following the links below. LGO Software Review; ORMS Today, October 2000 MathOptimizer and MathOptimizer Professional Software Review; Scientific Computing World, July-August 2003 Maplesoft's Global Optimization Toolbox Penetrates Key Markets; Maplesoft News Release, February 2005 MPL/LGO (in a size-limited demo version) is among the accompanying software products to the classic textbook Introduction to Operations Research, by Hillier and Lieberman (8th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005). Global Optimization Toolbox for Maple Software Review; ORMS Today, December 2005 Global Optimization with Maple - An add-on toolkit for the experienced scientist; Scientific Computing, June 2006 Global Optimization Toolbox for Maple; IEEE Control Systems Magazine, October 2006 Global Optimization Toolbox for Maple and Global Optimization with Maple (Software and Book Review); International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, Volume 1, Number 4, 2006 Review of the electronic book Global Optimization with Maple; Algorithmic Operations Research, Vol 2, No 2 (2007) Ordering Information LGO, Excel-LGO, MATLAB-LGO, MathOptimizer, and MathOptimizer Professional are directly available from PCS Inc. Please contact us for details. All other software products are available from our partners as shown above, as well as from other international distributors. Please follow the corresponding hyperlinks for each product. Please feel free to ask us for technical information. We will be glad to assist you in selecting the most suitable software implementation for your model development and optimization needs. In addition to software products and consulting services, we also offer workshops and training courses related to practical nonlinear optimization. For details, please see an illustrative list of workshops and presentations. Contact Information For further information, please contact Pintér Consulting Services, Inc., Canada Attn: Dr. János D. Pintér, President Thanks for your interest. © Copyright Pintér Consulting Services, Inc.