Welcome to the homepage of Pintér Consulting Services Company Background, Products and Services Introduction Pintér Consulting Services (PCS) is an incorporated Canadian company, in continuous operation since 1994. We offer quality software products and related services to a rapidly growing worldwide clientele. Our services include System (descriptive and optimization) model development and customization Optimization algorithm development and customization Presentation of lectures, workshops and intensive courses. Our primary expertise is related to nonlinear systems analysis and optimization. This includes the development of deterministic and stochastic algorithms and software for global and local optimization, for a broad range of applications in the sciences, engineering, economics and finances. We have been developing professional optimization software products since the late 1980s. The integrated Lipschitz Global Optimizer (LGO) suite of global and local solvers handles complex system models defined by computable, continuous, or Lipschitz functions, currently in up to thousands of variables and constraints. Model size limitations essentially depend on the available hardware/software platform, and the practically affordable program execution time. Customized algorithm and software development options are available, as a consulting service. The optimization models themselves can be even "black box" systems, with (merely) computable information, without the need for explicit function forms, derivatives, or higher order information. This unique feature makes our software products applicable in a large variety of contexts, including very complex models, closed modules, or confidential applications developed by our clients. For professional summaries, please see the following documents: PCS Products and Services Resume of János D. Pintér 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 languages, 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 interface (LGO IDE; for Visual Basic, C/C++, Delphi, and Fortran compiler platforms) available from PCS LGO solver engine for AIMMS users available from Paragon Decision Technology LGO solver engine for AMPL users available from PCS LGO solver engine for GAMS users available from the GAMS Development Corporation Global Optimization Toolbox (LGO solver engine for Maple users) available from Maplesoft LGO solver engine for MATLAB users available from TOMLAB Optimization MathOptimizer Professional (LGO solver engine for Mathematica users) available from PCS and Wolfram Research MathOptimizer (native Mathematica solver engine for Mathematica users) available from PCS and Wolfram Research LGO solver engine for MPL users available from Maximal Software Further Information Our software products are used by R&D departments, systems analysts and engineers of industry leaders, and by major research organizations and top universities in the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific Region. For several peer reviews and news releases related to our R&D and software development work, please follow the links shown below: 2000 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for Research Excellence 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 part of the accompanying software 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 In addition to software products and consulting, we also offer workshops and training courses related to practical nonlinear optimization. For details, please see an illustrative list of workshops and presentations. Ordering Information 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 listed above, as well as from other international distributors. Please feel free to ask us for technical information. We will be glad to assist in selecting the most suitable software implementation for your modeling and optimization needs. Contact Information For further information, please contact Pintér Consulting Services, Inc. Attn: Dr. János D. Pintér, President 129 Glenforest Drive Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, B3M 1J2 Phone: 1-(902)-443-5910 Thanks for your interest. © Copyright Pintér Consulting Services, Inc.