• Unsurpassed Optimization
OTS's team of world class scientists, mathematicians and technologists have developed an extraordinary collection of proprietary algorithms, methods and trade secrets. When combined with conventional and innovative scientific techniques the result is unsurpassed optimization. These are at the core of all OTS products including our flagship ARGOS Optimization Suite.
OTS's team of world class scientists, mathematicians and technologists have developed an extraordinary collection of proprietary algorithms, methods and trade secrets. When combined with conventional and innovative scientific techniques the result is unsurpassed optimization. These are at the core of all OTS products including our flagship ARGOS Optimization Suite.
• Optimization with Project Management and Schedules
Traditional project scheduling systems such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, Artemis and SAP, rely upon "makespan minimization" techniques to develop schedules. Makespan minimization attempts to schedule tasks as early as possible, subject to constraints and resource availability. This approach relies on the flawed logic that it is never wrong to get work done early and that a shorter schedule is always more efficient. In complex scenarios, such as ship building, makespan minimization does not create optimized schedules and human project managers and schedulers end up spending considerable time and effort adjusting and modifying projects to improve them. However, the overwhelming number and complexities of relationships make it is practically impossible to manually create a highly efficient and optimized schedule.
OTS tackles these problems with a dramatically different approach. We have developed state of the art nonsystematic techniques such as squeaky wheel optimization to achieve unparalleled optimization. The results delivered by ARGOS have never before been possible and cannot be obtained with any other technology. ARGOS optimization typically produces schedules that exhibit a 10% reduction in construction labor costs when compared with those in use in the yards today. These savings are achieved without changing the fundamental production process or shipyard facility in any way.
• Other Industries
In addition to shipyards, the schedule optimization technologies in ARGOS are applicable to any industry or organization that does critical path scheduling. Labor savings of around 10% have been shown for schedules used in industries as diverse as construction and oil refinery maintenance. Hundreds of millions of dollars can be saved by using ARGOS to right-size workforces and utilize resources effectively.
• Scientific Publications
- Generalizing
Boolean Satisfiability I: Background and Survey of Existing Work
- An Approach to Resource Constrained Project Scheduling
- An effective algorithm for project scheduling with arbitrary temporal constraints.
• Special Projects
United States Air Force
OTS has created WARP and DWARP for the USAF's Air Mobility Command (AMC). These products find optimal routes for individual aircraft and multiple sorties taking into account fuel burn, weather, airspace clearances, aircraft parking space, and time, resulting in a minimum cost and maximum value overall assignment of resources.
United States Air ForceOTS has created WARP and DWARP for the USAF's Air Mobility Command (AMC). These products find optimal routes for individual aircraft and multiple sorties taking into account fuel burn, weather, airspace clearances, aircraft parking space, and time, resulting in a minimum cost and maximum value overall assignment of resources.
• Computational
Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL)
Founded by Matthew Ginsberg and David Etherington of OTS, The University of Oregon's CIRL is a research laboratory and world leader in artificial intelligence, search, optimization and constraint satisfaction.
Areas of research include:
• Artificial intelligence
• Search optimization
• Constraint satisfaction
• Knowledge representation